PR6 6 postcode sector in the PR6 district

PR6 6 is a sector of the PR6 district: every postcode that starts PR6 6. It has 53 postcodes in use, 53 of them large-user postcodes. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.

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Every postcode in the PR6 6 sector, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in the PR6 6 sector, by new since 2020 Of the 53 postcodes in the PR6 6 sector that ONS places, 37 are new since 2020 and 16 were in use before 2020. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Chorley. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A6 PR6 6SA: before 2020PR6 6WA: new since 2020PR6 6NF: new since 2020 Chorley Map of every postcode in the PR6 6 sector, by new since 2020 Of the 53 postcodes in the PR6 6 sector that ONS places, 37 are new since 2020 and 16 were in use before 2020. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Chorley. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A6 Chorley
  • New since 2020: 37
  • In use before 2020: 16

Of the 53 postcodes in the PR6 6 sector that ONS places, 37 are new since 2020 and 16 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

Postcodes in PR6 6

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Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed. See all our data sources

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