KW16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

141 of the district's 158 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 58.96086, -3.27684, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KW16

Companies House lists 145 companies with a registered office in KW16; 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 KW16

• Orkney Islands
• Scotland
• Stromness
• Cairston
• Lyness
• Clestrain
• Quholm
• Voy
• Clouston
• Scarwell
• Longhope
• Germiston
• Wasbister
• Tenston
• Tronston
• Newgarth
• Hestwall
• Stenness
• Croval
• Hoy

Roads filed under KW16

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.

• Alfred Street
• Back Road
• Bank Lane
• Brownstown Road
• Burnside
• Cairston Drive
• Cairston Road
• Christie's Brae
• Church Road
• Citadel Crescent
• Citadel Drive
• Citadel Road
• Clook Road
• Clouston Corner
• Coplands Drive
• Coplands Road
• Craigmillar Park
• Croval Road
• Daisy Bank
• Deepdale Branch Road
• Dundas Street
• Ferry Road
• Franklin Road
• French Road
• Garson Drive
• Garson Loan
• Garson Park
• Garson Place
• Garson Way
• Germiston Road
• Graham Place
• Greenvoe
• Grieveship Brae
• Grieveship Road
• Grieveship West
• Hellihole Road
• Hillside Park
• Hillside Road
• Hillside Terrace
• Howe Road
• Hoymansquoy
• Ireland Road
• John Street
• Knockhall Drive
• Loganlea
• Lyking Road
• Manse Lane
• Ness Road
• Nethertown Road
• North End Road
• Outertown Road
• School Road
• South End
• Springfield Crescent
• St Colm's Quadrant
• St Peters Park
• Tenston Road
• The Fidges
• Vetquoy Road
• Victoria Street

Check an address in KW16

Check an address in KW16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KW16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KW16

What does a KW16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KW16 district of the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Stromness. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 141 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 KW16

• KW1717.4 km
• KW1518.3 km
• KW1444.4 km
• KW1252.0 km
• KW156.8 km
• KW372.8 km
• KW679.6 km
• KW787.0 km
• KW1188.0 km
• KW896.7 km
• KW9110.6 km
• IV27116.4 km
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