W1C postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

141 of the district's 211 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 51.51444, -0.14911, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in W1C

Companies House lists 1,103 companies with a registered office in W1C; 511 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 W1C

• City of Westminster
• Greater London
• London

Roads filed under W1C

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.

• Duke Street
• Harewood Place
• Holles Street
• Old Cavendish Street
• Oxford Street
• Sedley Place
• Stratford Place
• Woodstock Street

Check an address in W1C

Check an address in W1C

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=W1C" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about W1C

What does a W1C postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the W1C district of the W (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 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 W1C

• W1K0.4 km
• W1G0.5 km
• W1U0.6 km
• W1B0.6 km
• W1S0.6 km
• W1W0.8 km
• W1J0.8 km
• W1F0.9 km
• W1H0.9 km
• W1T1.1 km
• W1D1.1 km
• SW1Y1.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids