SW1V postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

572 of the district's 1,120 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 51.48950, -0.14000, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SW1V

Companies House lists 3,567 companies with a registered office in SW1V; 1,592 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 SW1V

• Greater London
• London
• City of Westminster
• Wandsworth

Roads filed under SW1V

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.

• Alderney Street
• Aylesford Street
• Balniel Gate
• Balvaird Place
• Belgrave Road
• Bessborough Gardens
• Bessborough Place
• Bessborough Street
• Bloomburg Street
• Bridge Place
• Buonaparte Mews
• Cambridge Street
• Carey Place
• Charlotte Place
• Charlwood Place
• Charlwood Street
• Chichester Street
• Churchill Gardens Road
• Churton Place
• Churton Street
• Clarendon Street
• Claverton Street
• Cumberland Street
• Dell's Mews
• Denbigh Mews
• Denbigh Place
• Denbigh Street
• Drummond Gate
• Eccleston Square
• Eccleston Square Mews
• Garden Terrace
• Gillingham Row
• Gillingham Street
• Glasgow Terrace
• Gloucester Street
• Grosvenor Road
• Guildhouse Street
• Hudson's Place
• Hugh Mews
• Hugh Street
• Johnson's Place
• King's Scholars' Passage
• Lindsay Square
• Longmoore Street
• Lupus Street
• Moreton Place
• Moreton Street
• Moreton Terrace
• Moreton Terrace Mews North
• Moreton Terrace Mews South
• Neathouse Place
• Paxton Terrace
• Peabody Avenue
• Rampayne Street
• Ranelagh Road
• St George's Drive
• St George's Square
• St George's Square Mews
• Sussex Street
• Sutherland Row

Check an address in SW1V

Check an address in SW1V

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SW1V" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SW1V

What does an SW1V postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SW1V district of the SW (South West London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is City of Westminster. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 572 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 SW1V

• SW1P0.5 km
• SW1W0.8 km
• SW1E1.0 km
• SW1H1.1 km
• SW1X1.5 km
• SW81.5 km
• SW1A1.8 km
• SW31.8 km
• SE112.0 km
• SW1Y2.1 km
• W1J2.1 km
• WC2N2.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids