CW3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

348 of the district's 416 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 52.99769, -2.40753, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in CW3

Companies House lists 495 companies with a registered office in CW3; none of them at an address shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for CW3

• West Midlands
• Newcastle-under-Lyme
• Staffordshire
• Cheshire East
• North West
• Madeley
• Audlem
• Shropshire
• Woore
• Betley
• Hankelow
• Buerton
• Ravenshall
• Wrinehill
• Onneley
• Lightwood Green
• Ireland's Cross
• Dorrington
• Chapel End
• Longhill
• Kinsey Heath
• Bowsey Wood
• Brown's Bank
• Swanbach

Roads filed under CW3

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Agger Hill
• Aldelyme Court
• Apple Croft
• Arbour Close
• Armstrong Close
• Ash Mount
• Audlem Road
• Back Lane
• Bagley Lane
• Bar Hill
• Bath Lane
• Beck Road
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Croft
• Beresford Dale
• Betley Hall Gardens
• Betty's Lane
• Bevan Place
• Birch Dale
• Blaizefield Close
• Bluebell Close
• Bower End Lane
• Bowhill Lane
• Bowsey Wood Road
• Bramble Lea
• Brassington Street
• Broadways
• Brook Lane
• Candle Lane
• Castle Lane
• Chamberlain Court
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Lane
• Charles Cotton Drive
• Checkley Lane
• Cherry Hill
• Cherry Tree Lane
• Cheshire Street
• Churchfields
• Church Lane
• Church View
• College Close
• Common Lane
• Coole Lane
• Copthorne Drive
• Cotton Mews
• Court Walk
• Cracow Moss
• Crewe Road
• Crown Mews
• Cygnet Close
• Daisy Bank Crescent
• Daltry Way
• Damson Lane
• Den Lane
• East Lawns
• Eaton Way
• Elkington Rise
• Emberton Place
• Farmfields Rise

Check an address in CW3

Check an address in CW3

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=CW3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about CW3

What does a CW3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the CW3 district of the CW (Crewe) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Madeley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 348 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest CW3

• CW29.4 km
• CW510.5 km
• ST511.4 km
• TF911.9 km
• CW112.0 km
• ST713.7 km
• ST414.9 km
• ST616.0 km
• ST116.0 km
• CW1116.4 km
• ST2116.7 km
• ST1216.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids