KW17 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

231 of the district's 257 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 59.03530, -3.00973, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KW17

Companies House lists 323 companies with a registered office in KW17; 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 KW17

• Orkney Islands
• Scotland
• Finstown
• St Margaret's Hope
• Dounby
• Evie
• St Mary's
• Burray Village
• Pierowall
• Orphir
• Balfour
• Hourston
• Brinian
• Toab
• Tankerness
• Dishes
• Whitehall Village
• Lady
• Horraldshay
• Hackland
• Harray
• The Barony
• Abune-the-Hill
• Backaland

Roads filed under KW17

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.

• Aikerskaill Road
• Back Road
• Biggings Road
• Braeburn Court
• Braebuster Road
• Breckan Brae
• Buckles Road
• Churchill Barrier No 2
• Churchill Barrier No 3
• Church Road
• Churchyard Road
• Coo Road
• Cornquoy Road
• Cromarty Square
• Damsay View
• Denwick Road
• Doctors Road
• Durkadale Road
• Ferryhouse Road
• Flett's Park
• Fletts Corner
• Front Road
• Garralanga Road
• Geo Road
• Gillpier Road
• Gorseness Road
• Graeme Park
• Graemeshall Road
• Greenwall Road
• Grimeston Road
• Grimond Place
• Grimond Road
• Grimond Square
• Gyre Road
• Halley Road
• Heddle Road
• Hillock Road
• Hillside Road
• Hirstquoy
• Holland Road
• Howanbrek
• Hundland Road
• Jewadale Drive
• Jib Park
• Johnstons Road
• Kingfisher Road
• Kirk Park
• Lairds Road
• Leaburn
• Liddie Road
• Link Road
• Loons Road
• Lyde Road
• Lyron
• MacDonald Park
• Marengo Road
• Marston Road
• Millbank
• Mussaquoy Road
• Netherbrough Road

Check an address in KW17

Check an address in KW17

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KW17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KW17

What does a KW17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KW17 district of the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Orkney Islands. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 231 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 KW17

• KW156.8 km
• KW1617.4 km
• KW1458.7 km
• KW164.6 km
• KW1265.0 km
• KW382.5 km
• KW690.8 km
• KW798.6 km
• KW11103.8 km
• KW8109.1 km
• KW9123.8 km
• KW10130.7 km
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