WA8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,589 of the district's 2,318 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 53.37318, -2.74121, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WA8

Companies House lists 3,157 companies with a registered office in WA8; 231 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 WA8

• North West
• Halton
• Widnes
• Knowsley
• Hale Bank
• Cronton
• St. Helens
• Bold Heath
• Warrington

Roads filed under WA8

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
• Acacia Avenue
• Acrefield Road
• Addingham Avenue
• Addison Square
• Adelaide Court
• Adelphi Grove
• Afton
• Aire
• Albert Road
• Albert Square
• Albright Road
• Alder Avenue
• Alder Lane
• Aldershot Close
• Alderwood Court
• Alexander Drive
• Alexandra Street
• Alforde Street
• Alfred Close
• Alfred Street
• Alice Court
• Allerton Road
• Almond Grove
• Alt
• Alverton Close
• Amelia Close
• Andover Close
• Andrew Close
• Ann Street West
• Ansdell Road
• Anson Close
• Appleby Close
• Appleby Walk
• Appleton Road
• Appleton Street
• Appleton Village
• Arden
• Arkenstone Close
• Arley Drive
• Arnold Place
• Ashford Way
• Ash Grove
• Ash Lane
• Ashley Green
• Ashley Way
• Ashley Way West
• Ash Priors
• Ashwood Close
• Assisi Gardens
• Astley Close
• Atterbury Close
• Aubourn Close
• Ava Close
• Avebury Close
• Avon
• Avondale Close
• Avondale Drive
• Aycliffe Walk

Check an address in WA8

Check an address in WA8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WA8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WA8

What does a WA8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WA8 district of the WA (Warrington) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Widnes. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,589 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 WA8

• WA75.4 km
• L355.4 km
• L266.0 km
• L276.7 km
• WA97.1 km
• L247.3 km
• WA57.4 km
• L368.1 km
• L258.1 km
• L348.5 km
• WA109.1 km
• L1610.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids