Postcodes in Preston District

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This article covers information about postcodes in Preston's local authority district. Preston is an administrative area in Lancashire County. Preston district is further divided into 16 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Preston Postcodes, it has 3535 active postcodes. Preston contains approximately 57587 residential properties with a population of about 140255.

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Preston Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 140255
Addresses / Property Count 57587
Active Postcodes 3535
County Lancashire
No Of Wards in Preston 16

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Preston is a local authority district in Lancashire county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

Wards in Preston

There are 16 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Ashton Brookfield Cadley City Centre Deepdale Fishwick & Frenchwood Garrison Greyfriars Ingol & Cottam Lea & Larches Plungington Preston Rural East Preston Rural North Ribbleton St Matthew's Sharoe Green

View Map Of Preston Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Preston, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Preston postcodes


showing 1850-1900 of 3535 active postcodes in Preston
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
PR2 2YP Ashton 53.76134100 -2.74404700
PR2 2YQ Ashton 53.76030400 -2.72707100
PR2 2YR Ashton 53.76649100 -2.72502300
PR2 2YS Ashton 53.76050600 -2.74677800
PR2 2YW Ashton 53.75891100 -2.73731500
PR2 2YX Ashton 53.75960500 -2.73835900
PR2 2YY Ashton 53.75960600 -2.73673600
PR2 2YZ Ashton 53.75960600 -2.73673600
PR2 2ZB Ashton 53.76174300 -2.73129700
PR2 2ZH Plungington 53.76719400 -2.72022600
PR2 3AA Plungington 53.77394100 -2.71328600
PR2 3AB Plungington 53.77355400 -2.71326400
PR2 3AD Plungington 53.77406500 -2.71052700
PR2 3AE Plungington 53.77466400 -2.70950500
PR2 3AF Cadley 53.77352900 -2.71751200
PR2 3AG Cadley 53.77558400 -2.71774200
PR2 3AH Cadley 53.77429200 -2.71625100
PR2 3AJ Cadley 53.77590300 -2.71726500
PR2 3AL Cadley 53.77629500 -2.71642200
PR2 3AN Cadley 53.77579300 -2.71771800
PR2 3AP Cadley 53.77621300 -2.71815000
PR2 3AQ Greyfriars 53.77696500 -2.71825100
PR2 3AR Cadley 53.77669900 -2.71770000
PR2 3AS Cadley 53.77591400 -2.71654800
PR2 3AT Cadley 53.77574400 -2.71683700
PR2 3AU Cadley 53.77632600 -2.71731700
PR2 3AX Cadley 53.77430100 -2.71775300
PR2 3AY Cadley 53.77581800 -2.71918700
PR2 3BB Cadley 53.77507100 -2.71810000
PR2 3BD Cadley 53.77509600 -2.71553600
PR2 3BF Greyfriars 53.79822100 -2.72285000
PR2 3BG Greyfriars 53.79719300 -2.72784200
PR2 3BH Plungington 53.77704200 -2.70983000
PR2 3BJ Cadley 53.77388000 -2.71440800
PR2 3BL Plungington 53.77499500 -2.70938600
PR2 3BN Plungington 53.77605500 -2.70961600
PR2 3BP Cadley 53.77424400 -2.71521800
PR2 3BQ Plungington 53.77586200 -2.71372800
PR2 3BS Plungington 53.77687600 -2.71095300
PR2 3BT Plungington 53.77581600 -2.71089000
PR2 3BU Plungington 53.77482200 -2.71017500
PR2 3BW Greyfriars 53.79795500 -2.72673200
PR2 3BX Plungington 53.77461000 -2.71112800
PR2 3BY Plungington 53.77427500 -2.71262100
PR2 3BZ Greyfriars 53.79823200 -2.72842200
PR2 3DA Plungington 53.77466400 -2.71224800
PR2 3DB Plungington 53.77427200 -2.71348900
PR2 3DD Plungington 53.77506900 -2.71395800
PR2 3DE Plungington 53.77630600 -2.71464600
PR2 3DF Greyfriars 53.79789500 -2.72764200
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