KW10 postcode district
KW10, in the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, has 63 live and 10 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 40 roads under it.
| postcode area | KW (Kirkwall) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 63 |
| terminated postcodes | 10 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 40 |
| companies registered | 136 |
| centroid | 57.97435, -3.97853 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
63 of the district's 73 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 57.97435, -3.97853, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| KW10 6 | 63 | 10 |
Companies registered in KW10
Companies House lists 136 companies with a registered office in KW10; 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 KW10
- Highland
- Scotland
- Golspie
- Backies
- Littleferry
Roads filed under KW10
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.
- Alistair Road
- Argo Terrace
- Back Street
- Ben Bhraggie Drive
- Ben Bhraggie Terrace
- Campbell Close
- Church Street
- Clachan Way
- Clobhsa nan Caimbeul
- Drummuie Terrace
- Duke Street
- East Gate Lodge
- East Millicent Avenue
- Ferry Road
- Fountain Road
- Fraser Street
- Grant Crescent
- Hynds Lane
- Kinghorn Court
- Lady's Walk
- Lindsay Street
- Lundie Drive
- Main Street
- Millicent Avenue
- Murdos Lane
- Old Bank Road
- Park Street
- Queen's Drive
- Ross Gardens
- Ross Street
- Seaforth Road
- Shore Street
- Sibell Road
- South Argo Terrace
- Station Road
- Sutherland Road
- Tarbat View
- Tower Street
- Woodland Crescent
- Woodland Way
Check an address in KW10
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KW10" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about KW10
- What does a KW10 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the KW10 district of the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Golspie. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 63 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 KW10
- KW98.3 km
- IV2510.2 km
- IV2811.3 km
- IV1919.6 km
- IV2021.1 km
- IV2424.1 km
- KW824.2 km
- IV1832.0 km
- IV1133.2 km
- IV1734.8 km
- KW736.7 km
- KW1138.2 km
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