WA7 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,517 of the district's 2,054 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 53.33067, -2.70318, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WA7

Companies House lists 2,646 companies with a registered office in WA7; 73 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 WA7

• North West
• Halton
• Runcorn
• Cheshire West and Chester
• Sutton Weaver
• Aston Heath
• Aston
• Dutton

Roads filed under WA7

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 Hey
• Abbotsley Road
• Abbots Park
• Abbotts Close
• Abington Walk
• Acacia Grove
• Actons Wood Lane
• Adderley Close
• Adela Road
• Adlington Road
• Ainley Close
• Albany Terrace
• Albert Street
• Alcock Street
• Aldersey Close
• Aldersgate Avenue
• Alexandra Grove
• Algernon Street
• Allendale
• Allen Road
• Almond Avenue
• Ambleside Close
• Anchor Close
• Ann Street
• Arkwright Court
• Arkwright Road
• Arndale
• Arthur Street
• Ascot Avenue
• Ashbourne Avenue
• Ashbrook Avenue
• Ashbury Close
• Ash Grove
• Ashley Road
• Ashridge Street
• Ashton Close
• Ashville Point
• Ashville Way
• Aster Crescent
• Astmoor Bridge Lane
• Astmoor Lane
• Astmoor Road
• Aston Fields Road
• Aston Forge
• Aston Green
• Aston Lane
• Aston Lane North
• Aston Lane South
• Audlem Close
• Azalea Grove
• Backford Close
• Back High Street
• Badger Close
• Baker Road
• Balfour Street
• Bamford Close
• Bankes' Lane
• Bankside
• Bar Hill Close
• Barington Drive

Check an address in WA7

Check an address in WA7

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WA7" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WA7

What does a WA7 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WA7 district of the WA (Warrington) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Runcorn. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,517 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 WA7

• WA85.4 km
• WA66.6 km
• WA58.7 km
• L249.2 km
• WA49.3 km
• L269.3 km
• L3510.7 km
• L2711.0 km
• WA111.2 km
• WA911.8 km
• L2511.9 km
• WA212.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids