WA2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

924 of the district's 1,242 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 53.41085, -2.58130, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WA2

Companies House lists 1,785 companies with a registered office in WA2; 85 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 WA2

• North West
• Warrington
• Winwick
• Hermitage Green
• Wood Head
• St. Helens

Roads filed under WA2

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.

• Achilles Avenue
• Ackerley Close
• Adam Street
• Ajax Avenue
• Alamein Crescent
• Alcott Place
• Alder Crescent
• Alder Lane
• Alder Root Lane
• Allen Street
• Ambleside Crescent
• Amelia Street
• Anderson Close
• Andover Close
• Annie Street
• Antrim Road
• Appleby Road
• Appletree Grove
• Arbury Lane
• Arena Gardens
• Armour Avenue
• Arnhem Crescent
• Arran Close
• Arthur Street
• Ashbrook Crescent
• Ash Road
• Ashton Street
• Aspinall Close
• Athlone Road
• Austen Drive
• Avery Close
• Aviemore Drive
• Avocet Close
• Back Forshaw Street
• Ballantyne Place
• Ballater Drive
• Barnes Avenue
• Barrow Avenue
• Battersby Lane
• Bawtry Court
• Beatty Avenue
• Beckett Drive
• Bentham Avenue
• Bewsey Street
• Bexhill Avenue
• Bickley Close
• Biggin Court
• Birch Avenue
• Birtles Road
• Bishops Court
• Bittern Close
• Blackbrook Avenue
• Blackburne Close
• Blackledge Close
• Blenheim Close
• Bluecoat Street
• Borrowdale Avenue
• Bowness Avenue
• Bowood Court
• Boyle Avenue

Check an address in WA2

Check an address in WA2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WA2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WA2

What does a WA2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WA2 district of the WA (Warrington) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Warrington. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 924 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 WA2

• WA12.0 km
• WA54.0 km
• WA45.2 km
• WA35.5 km
• WA125.8 km
• WA138.1 km
• WA99.6 km
• WN410.1 km
• M3110.4 km
• WN710.6 km
• M4410.7 km
• WA811.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids