KW1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

356 of the district's 427 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 58.45685, -3.12198, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KW1

Companies House lists 374 companies with a registered office in KW1; 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 KW1

• Highland
• Scotland
• Wick
• Watten
• Keiss
• Reiss
• Staxigoe
• Thrumster
• John o' Groats
• Ackergillshore
• Bower
• Canisbay
• Gillock
• Haster
• Lochshell
• Ackergill
• Bilbster
• Howe
• Auckengill
• Spittal
• Sibster
• Hastigrow
• Myrelandhorn
• Bowertower

Roads filed under KW1

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.

• Achingale Place
• Ackergill Crescent
• Ackergill Street
• Agnes Street
• Albert Street
• Anderson Drive
• Anderson Lane
• Anne's Crescent
• Argyle Square
• Auchorn Square
• Back Bridge Street
• Baikie Place
• Bain Place
• Bankhead
• Bank Row
• Baptist Lane
• Baron's Court
• Baron's Well
• Barrogill Street
• Battery Road
• Bay View
• Beaufoy Street
• Bella Mackay Place
• Bexley Terrace
• Bobby Coghill Avenue
• Bon-Accord Street
• Breadalbane Terrace
• Bremner's Walk
• Bridge Street
• Broadhaven Road
• Brown Place
• Burn Street
• Cairndhuna Terrace
• Carnaby Road
• Church Street
• Cliff Cottages
• Cliff Road
• Coach Road
• Coghill Street
• Cormack Crescent
• Corner Crescent
• Coronation Street
• Dempster Street
• Doocot View
• Duffus Street
• Dunnett Avenue
• Elzy Grove
• Elzy Place
• Elzy Road
• Finlayson Place
• Fountain Square
• Francis Street
• Fraser Drive
• George Street
• Girnigoe Street
• Glamis Road
• Gowrie Place
• Grant Street
• Green Road
• Gunns Terrace

Check an address in KW1

Check an address in KW1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KW1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KW1

What does a KW1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KW1 district of the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Wick. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 356 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 KW1

• KW319.1 km
• KW1222.2 km
• KW1429.1 km
• KW629.7 km
• KW737.3 km
• KW849.5 km
• KW1656.8 km
• KW1558.9 km
• KW1161.4 km
• KW1764.6 km
• KW965.5 km
• KW1073.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids