KW15 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

364 of the district's 429 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 58.98011, -2.96003, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KW15

Companies House lists 431 companies with a registered office in KW15; 30 of them at addresses 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 KW15

• Orkney Islands
• Scotland
• Kirkwall
• Greenigoe
• Blackhill
• Grimbister

Roads filed under KW15

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.

• Albert Square
• Albert Street
• Annfield Crescent
• Annfield Park
• Ayre Road
• Bellevue Park
• Berstane Loan
• Berstane Road
• Bignold Park Road
• Bloomfield Road
• Boray Drive
• Bosquoy Road
• Braedon Court
• Bridge Street
• Bridge St Wynd
• Broadsands Road
• Broad Street
• Burnett Brae
• Burnmouth Road
• Burnside
• Busant Drive
• Buttquoy Crescent
• Buttquoy Drive
• Buttquoy Place
• Carness Road
• Carters Park Road
• Castlehame Park
• Clay Loan
• Claymore Brae
• Claymore Court
• Clumly Avenue
• Copland's Lane
• Craigie Crescent
• Craigiefield Park
• Craigiefield Road
• Crantit Park
• Cromwell Court
• Cromwell Crescent
• Cromwell Drive
• Cromwell Road
• Crossie Crown Place
• Crowness Crescent
• Crowness Park
• Crowness Place
• Crowness Road
• Cursiter Crescent
• Cursiter Park
• Cusiter Close
• Dakota Road
• Douglas Loan
• Drainshore Drive
• Dundas Crescent
• Earls Court
• Earl Sigurd Street
• Earl Thorfinn Street
• Easdale Close
• Easdale Loan
• East Quoy Road
• East Road
• Enzie Road

Check an address in KW15

Check an address in KW15

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KW15" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KW15

What does a KW15 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KW15 district of the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Kirkwall. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 364 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 KW15

• KW176.8 km
• KW1618.3 km
• KW1455.4 km
• KW158.9 km
• KW1261.0 km
• KW377.2 km
• KW685.8 km
• KW793.6 km
• KW11101.1 km
• KW8104.5 km
• KW9119.5 km
• KW10126.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids