WC1A postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

147 of the district's 690 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 51.52028, -0.12009, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WC1A

Companies House lists 1,180 companies with a registered office in WC1A; 776 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 WC1A

• London
• Greater London
• Camden
• Islington
• Hampstead

Roads filed under WC1A

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.

• Bainbridge Street
• Barter Street
• Bloomsbury Place
• Bloomsbury Way
• Bury Place
• Coptic Street
• Dunn's Passage
• Dyott Street
• Galen Place
• Gilbert Place
• Little Russell Street
• Museum Street
• New Oxford Street
• Sicilian Avenue
• Southampton Place
• Stedham Place
• West Central Street
• Willoughby Street

Check an address in WC1A

Check an address in WC1A

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC1A" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WC1A

What does a WC1A postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WC1A district of the WC (West Central London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 147 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 WC1A

• WC1N0.3 km
• WC1R0.3 km
• WC1V0.4 km
• WC1B0.4 km
• WC2B0.6 km
• WC2A0.6 km
• W1A0.7 km
• EC1N0.8 km
• WC1X0.8 km
• WC1H0.8 km
• WC1E0.9 km
• WC2H0.9 km
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