W1H postcode district
W1H, in the W (West London) postcode area, has 691 live and 682 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 69 roads under it.
| postcode area | W (West London) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 691 |
| terminated postcodes | 682 |
| sectors | 10 |
| roads listed | 69 |
| companies registered | 5,961 |
| centroid | 51.51770, -0.16121 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
691 of the district's 1,373 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 51.51770, -0.16121, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| W1H 0 | 0 | 102 |
| W1H 1 | 128 | 101 |
| W1H 2 | 113 | 43 |
| W1H 3 | 0 | 58 |
| W1H 4 | 106 | 44 |
| W1H 5 | 129 | 86 |
| W1H 6 | 50 | 65 |
| W1H 7 | 165 | 83 |
| W1H 8 | 0 | 35 |
| W1H 9 | 0 | 65 |
Companies registered in W1H
Companies House lists 5,961 companies with a registered office in W1H; 4,343 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 W1H
- City of Westminster
- Greater London
- London
Roads filed under W1H
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.
- Berkeley Mews
- Beverston Mews
- Brendon Street
- Brown Street
- Brunswick Mews
- Bryanston Mews East
- Bryanston Mews West
- Bryanston Place
- Bryanston Square
- Bryanston Street
- Castlereagh Street
- Cato Street
- Circus Mews
- Clenston Mews
- Crawford Mews
- Crawford Place
- Crawford Street
- Cumberland Gate
- Durweston Street
- Enford Street
- Fitzhardinge Street
- Forset Street
- George Street
- Granville Place
- Great Cumberland Mews
- Great Cumberland Place
- Hampden Gurney Street
- Harcourt Street
- Harrowby Street
- Homer Row
- Homer Street
- Knox Street
- Marble Arch
- Molyneux Street
- Montagu Mews North
- Montagu Mews South
- Montagu Mews West
- Montagu Place
- Montagu Square
- Montagu Street
- New Quebec Street
- Nutford Place
- Old Quebec Street
- Orchard Street
- Portman Close
- Portman Mews South
- Portman Square
- Portman Street
- Portman Towers
- Quebec Mews
- Salisbury Place
- Seymour Mews
- Seymour Place
- Seymour Street
- Shillibeer Place
- Shouldham Street
- Stourcliffe Street
- Thornton Place
- Upper Berkeley Street
- Upper Montagu Street
all 69 roads
- Virgil Place
- Wallenberg Place
- Walmer Place
- Watson's Mews
- Wyndham Mews
- Wyndham Place
- Wyndham Yard
- Wythburn Place
- York Street
Check an address in W1H
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=W1H" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about W1H
- What does a W1H postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the W1H 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 691 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 W1H
- W1U0.5 km
- W1C0.9 km
- W1G0.9 km
- W1K1.0 km
- W1W1.4 km
- W1B1.4 km
- W1S1.5 km
- W1J1.6 km
- W21.7 km
- W1T1.7 km
- W1F1.8 km
- NW81.9 km
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