WA5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,320 of the district's 2,099 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 53.39933, -2.63920, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WA5

Companies House lists 2,688 companies with a registered office in WA5; 32 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 WA5

• North West
• Warrington
• Burtonwood
• Collins Green
• Cuerdley Cross
• St. Helens
• St Helens

Roads filed under WA5

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.

• Aberdare Close
• Acton Road
• Ainsdale Close
• Airedale Close
• Albury Close
• Alconbury Close
• Alderbank Road
• Alder Lane
• Aldridge Drive
• Alfa Way
• Allcard Street
• Almer Drive
• Almond Drive
• Alpass Avenue
• Alverstone Close
• Apollo Park
• Archers Green Road
• Arizona Crescent
• Arlington Drive
• Arncliffe Drive
• Arundell Close
• Ashbourne Road
• Ash Road
• Athertons Quay
• Atlanta Gardens
• Attlebridge Gardens
• Audre Close
• Augusta Grove
• Avon Avenue
• Babbacombe Road
• Back Lane
• Bagnall Close
• Bagot Avenue
• Bainbridge Crescent
• Bakersfield Drive
• Bakewell Road
• Bala Close
• Baltimore Gardens
• Banbury Drive
• Bank Gardens
• Barbondale Close
• Bardsley Avenue
• Barford Close
• Barkston Heath Drive
• Barmouth Close
• Barnard Street
• Barnes Close
• Barn Lane
• Barnstaple Way
• Barracuda Drive
• Barrow Hall Lane
• Baxter Street
• Beadnell Drive
• Beaufort Close
• Beaufort Street
• Beech Avenue
• Beechwood Avenue
• Beecroft Close
• Belmont Crescent
• Belvedere Drive

Check an address in WA5

Check an address in WA5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WA5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WA5

What does a WA5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WA5 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 1,320 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 WA5

• WA24.0 km
• WA14.5 km
• WA45.7 km
• WA126.0 km
• WA96.7 km
• WA87.4 km
• WA78.7 km
• WA38.8 km
• L359.7 km
• WA109.9 km
• WA1110.3 km
• WN410.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids