WC1N postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

272 of the district's 569 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 51.52292, -0.11973, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WC1N

Companies House lists 17,311 companies with a registered office in WC1N; 16,082 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 WC1N

• London
• Greater London
• Camden
• Islington

Roads filed under WC1N

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.

• Barbon Close
• Bernard Street
• Boswell Court
• Boswell Street
• Brownlow Mews
• Brunswick Square
• Colonnade
• Coram Street
• Cosmo Place
• Dombey Street
• Doughty Mews
• Doughty Street
• Emerald Street
• Gage Street
• Great James Street
• Great Ormond Street
• Grenville Street
• Guilford Place
• Guilford Street
• Handel Street
• Harpur Mews
• Harpur Street
• Heathcote Street
• Henrietta Mews
• Herbrand Street
• Hunter Street
• John's Mews
• John Street
• Kenton Street
• King's Mews
• Kirk Street
• Lamb's Conduit Street
• Lansdowne Terrace
• Long Yard
• Marchmont Street
• Mecklenburgh Place
• Mecklenburgh Square
• Mecklenburgh Street
• Millman Mews
• Millman Street
• New North Street
• Northington Street
• North Mews
• Old Gloucester Street
• Orde Hall Street
• Ormond Close
• Powis Place
• Queen Anne's Walk
• Queen Square
• Richbell Place
• Roger Street
• Rugby Street
• Woburn Place

Check an address in WC1N

Check an address in WC1N

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC1N" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WC1N

What does a WC1N postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WC1N 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 272 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 WC1N

• WC1A0.3 km
• WC1R0.5 km
• W1A0.5 km
• WC1X0.5 km
• WC1V0.6 km
• WC1B0.6 km
• WC1H0.6 km
• EC1R0.8 km
• EC1N0.8 km
• WC2A0.8 km
• WC2B0.9 km
• WC1E0.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids