WC1H postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

306 of the district's 672 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 51.52686, -0.12568, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WC1H

Companies House lists 3,490 companies with a registered office in WC1H; 2,279 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 WC1H

• London
• Greater London
• Camden
• Islington

Roads filed under WC1H

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.

• Argyle Square
• Argyle Street
• Argyle Walk
• Bedford Way
• Belgrove Street
• Bidborough Street
• Birkenhead Street
• Burton Place
• Burton Street
• Byng Place
• Cartwright Gardens
• Compton Place
• Crestfield Street
• Cromer Street
• Duke's Road
• Endsleigh Gardens
• Endsleigh Place
• Endsleigh Street
• Flaxman Terrace
• Gordon Square
• Gordon Street
• Harrison Street
• Hastings Street
• Judd Street
• Leigh Street
• Loxham Street
• Mabledon Place
• Midhope Street
• Regent Square
• Sandwich Street
• Seaford Street
• Sidmouth Mews
• Sidmouth Street
• Speedy Place
• St Chad's Street
• Tankerton Street
• Tavistock Place
• Tavistock Square
• Taviton Street
• Thanet Street
• Tonbridge Street
• Torrington Square
• Upper Woburn Place
• Wakefield Mews
• Wakefield Street
• Whidborne Street
• Woburn Square
• Woburn Walk
• Woolf Mews
• A4200
• B504

Check an address in WC1H

Check an address in WC1H

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC1H" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WC1H

What does a WC1H postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WC1H 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 306 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 WC1H

• WC1N0.6 km
• WC1X0.7 km
• WC1E0.8 km
• WC1B0.8 km
• WC1A0.8 km
• W1A0.9 km
• W1T1.1 km
• WC1R1.1 km
• N1C1.1 km
• WC1V1.2 km
• EC1R1.2 km
• W1W1.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids