KW8 postcode district
KW8, in the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, has 38 live and 5 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 15 roads under it.
| postcode area | KW (Kirkwall) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 38 |
| terminated postcodes | 5 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 15 |
| companies registered | 42 |
| centroid | 58.11532, -3.66506 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
38 of the district's 43 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 58.11532, -3.66506, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| KW8 6 | 38 | 5 |
Companies registered in KW8
Companies House lists 42 companies with a registered office in KW8 (1 October 2026 snapshot).
Places OS Open Names lists for KW8
- Highland
- Scotland
- East Helmsdale
- Portgower
- West Helmsdale
- Gartymore
- Crackaig Crofts
- Lothmore
- Marrel
- Navidale
Roads filed under KW8
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.
- Dunrobin Street
- Farr Crescent
- Golf Road
- Lilleshall Street
- Navidale Road
- Old Caithness Road
- Rockview Place
- Shore Street
- Simpson Crescent
- Stafford Street
- Stittenham Road
- Stittenham Street
- Strathnaver Street
- Sutherland Street
- Trentham Street
Check an address in KW8
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KW8" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about KW8
- What does a KW8 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the KW8 district of the KW (Kirkwall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is East Helmsdale. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 38 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 KW8
- KW712.5 km
- KW916.1 km
- KW619.8 km
- KW1024.2 km
- KW331.0 km
- IV2831.3 km
- IV2533.6 km
- KW1134.9 km
- IV2039.0 km
- IV1941.8 km
- KW1244.7 km
- IV2447.8 km
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