WA6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

979 of the district's 1,226 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 53.27243, -2.72510, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WA6

Companies House lists 1,123 companies with a registered office in WA6; 194 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 WA6

• Cheshire West and Chester
• North West
• Frodsham
• Helsby
• Kingsley
• Norley
• Dunham-on-the-Hill
• Hatchmere
• Alvanley
• Manley
• Hapsford
• Newton
• Buckoak
• Kingswood
• Manley Common
• Bradley

Roads filed under WA6

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.

• Acres Crescent
• Albert Row
• Alder Lane
• Alexandra Mews
• Alvanley Drive
• Alvanley Road
• Ardern Lea
• Arran Drive
• Ashlands
• Ashton Close
• Ashton Drive
• Ashton Road
• Back Crosland Terrace
• Back Lane
• Bag Lane
• Ball Lane
• Balmoral Drive
• Bank House Lane
• Barlow Drive
• Barn Croft
• Bates Lane
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Lane
• Beech Tree Walk
• Beech View Road
• Bellemonte Road
• Belvedere Close
• Bickerton Avenue
• Birch Hill
• Blakemere Lane
• Blue Bridge Lane
• Blue Hatch
• Borrowdale Close
• Bracken Way
• Bradley Lane
• Bramley Walk
• Bratt's Lane
• Bridge Lane
• Bridge Side Drive
• Bridgewater Close
• Britannia Gardens
• Britannia Road
• Brook Furlong
• Brookside
• Brookside Road
• Burgess Lane
• Burrows Lane
• Bushells Lane
• Buttermere Close
• Cable Drive
• Callender Gardens
• Callender Way
• Cambridge Gardens
• Camomile Lane
• Carriage Drive
• Cash Lane
• Chamber Brook Lane
• Champion Court
• Chapel Avenue
• Chapelfields

Check an address in WA6

Check an address in WA6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WA6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WA6

What does a WA6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WA6 district of the WA (Warrington) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Frodsham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 979 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 WA6

• WA76.6 km
• CW810.9 km
• L2411.0 km
• WA811.3 km
• CH211.3 km
• CH6511.8 km
• L2612.4 km
• CW612.9 km
• CH8813.2 km
• CH313.5 km
• CH6614.1 km
• WA414.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids