WA3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,519 of the district's 1,998 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 53.45657, -2.54790, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WA3

Companies House lists 3,547 companies with a registered office in WA3; 457 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 WA3

• North West
• Warrington
• Wigan
• Golborne
• Culcheth
• Croft
• Glazebury
• Fowley Common
• Hollinfare
• Town of Lowton
• Irlam
• Salford
• Hollins Green
• New Lane End
• Diggle Green
• Lowton Heath
• Little Town
• Wigshaw
• Kenyon
• Glazebrook
• Lane End
• St. Helens
• Lately Common
• Newton-le-Willows

Roads filed under WA3

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.

• Abbey Close
• Abbey Road
• Abbotsford Close
• Acreville Grove
• Adlington Court
• Admirals Road
• Adwell Close
• Ainscough Road
• Aldcliffe
• Alderley Avenue
• Alder Road
• Aldewood Close
• Alfred Road
• Allen Avenue
• Allerby Way
• Amis Grove
• Applecross Close
• Apple Dell Avenue
• Arden Close
• Ariel Gardens
• Ariel Walk
• Arkenshaw Road
• Armstrong Close
• Ashdown Lane
• Ash Grove
• Ashmore Close
• Ash Road
• Ash Street
• Ashton Road
• Ashwell Avenue
• Ashwood Avenue
• Aspull Close
• Astbury Close
• Aston Avenue
• Attlee Avenue
• Avon Road
• Bainbridge Avenue
• Ballantyne Way
• Balmoral Avenue
• Bank Passage
• Bank Street
• Bardney Avenue
• Barford Drive
• Barham Court
• Barnham Close
• Barn Lane
• Barnton Close
• Barnwell Avenue
• Barrowdale Road
• Barrow Lane
• Barton Street
• Barwell Close
• Beardsmore Drive
• Beaverbrook Avenue
• Beech Avenue
• Beechmill Drive
• Beech Road
• Beechwood Lane
• Beeston Close
• Belmont Avenue

Check an address in WA3

Check an address in WA3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WA3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WA3

What does a WA3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WA3 district of the WA (Warrington) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Golborne. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,519 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 WA3

• WN75.0 km
• WA25.5 km
• WA125.7 km
• WA17.2 km
• WN47.6 km
• M448.2 km
• M298.3 km
• M468.5 km
• WA58.8 km
• WN29.1 km
• M319.2 km
• WA139.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids