W8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

688 of the district's 1,485 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 51.50119, -0.19425, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in W8

Companies House lists 4,382 companies with a registered office in W8; 2,039 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 W8

• Kensington
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Greater London
• London

Roads filed under W8

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.

• Abbots Walk
• Abingdon Road
• Abingdon Villas
• Adam and Eve Mews
• Airlie Gardens
• Albert Mews
• Albert Place
• Allen Street
• Ansdell Street
• Ansdell Terrace
• Argyll Road
• Aubrey Road
• Aubrey Walk
• Beatrice Place
• Bedford Gardens
• Berkeley Gardens
• Blithfield Street
• Brunswick Gardens
• Callcott Street
• Cambridge Place
• Campden Grove
• Campden Hill
• Campden Hill Gardens
• Campden Hill Road
• Campden Hill Square
• Campden House Close
• Campden Street
• Canning Passage
• Canning Place
• Carmel Court
• Chantry Square
• Cheniston Gardens
• Cope Place
• Cottesmore Gardens
• Derry Street
• De Vere Gardens
• Devonshire Place
• Douro Place
• Drayson Mews
• Duchess of Bedford's Walk
• Dukes Lane
• Earls Terrace
• Earls Walk
• Edge Street
• Edwardes Square
• Eldon Road
• Essex Villas
• Farmer Street
• Farm Place
• Fenelon Place
• Gloucester Walk
• Gordon Place
• Gregory Place
• Hillgate Place
• Hillgate Street
• Hillsleigh Road
• Hollandgreen Place
• Holland Place
• Holland Street
• Holland Walk

Check an address in W8

Check an address in W8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=W8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about W8

What does a W8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the W8 district of the W (West London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Kensington. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 688 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 W8

• SW51.1 km
• SW71.3 km
• W141.3 km
• W21.7 km
• W111.9 km
• SW102.1 km
• SW32.4 km
• W62.6 km
• SW1X2.6 km
• W92.6 km
• SW62.8 km
• W102.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids