KW14 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

457 of the district's 515 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 58.58859, -3.55450, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KW14

Companies House lists 459 companies with a registered office in KW14; 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 KW14

• Highland
• Scotland
• Thurso
• Castletown
• Reay
• Am Blàran Odhar
• Bettyhill
• Portskerra
• Scrabster
• Dunnet
• Melvich
• Meabhaich
• Glengolly
• Shebster
• Murkle
• Mey
• Westfield
• Isauld
• Strathy
• Skerray
• Lower Dounreay
• Forss
• Achreamie
• Barrock

Roads filed under KW14

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.

• Albyn Court
• Allans Lane
• Angus Court
• Back Shore Street
• Balimore Place
• Bank Lane
• Bank Place
• Bank Street
• Bardnaclavan Place
• Barrock Street
• Battery Road
• Bayview Avenue
• Bay View Terrace
• Beach Court
• Beach Road
• Beinn Ratha Court
• Bishops Drive
• Brabster Street
• Braemore Place
• Braes of Harrow
• Brilon Court
• Brims Road
• Brownhill Road
• Burnett Place
• Burn Road
• Burnside
• Butchers Lane
• Cairnmore Place
• Calder Drive
• Calders Lane
• Calder Square
• Campbell Street
• Castle Gardens
• Castlegreen Court
• Castlegreen Road
• Castlehill Avenue
• Castlehill Place
• Castle Street
• Castle Terrace
• Churchill Place
• Churchill Road
• Claredon Place
• Clarence Street
• Clett Terrace
• College Court
• College Place
• Coronation Place
• Couper Square
• Couper Street
• Cowie Lane
• C Path
• Crown Square
• Dale Road
• Davidson's Lane
• Dirlot Place
• Donald Grant Road
• Dunbar Terrace
• Duncan Street
• Dunnet Place
• Dunnet Road

Check an address in KW14

Check an address in KW14

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KW14" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KW14

What does a KW14 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KW14 district of the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Thurso. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 457 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 KW14

• KW129.8 km
• KW129.1 km
• KW335.2 km
• KW638.1 km
• KW1644.4 km
• KW744.8 km
• KW1146.0 km
• KW853.0 km
• KW1555.4 km
• KW1758.7 km
• KW966.4 km
• KW1072.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids