WC1R postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

79 of the district's 330 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 51.51961, -0.11578, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WC1R

Companies House lists 1,828 companies with a registered office in WC1R; 1,291 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 WC1R

• London
• Camden
• Greater London

Roads filed under WC1R

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.

• Bedford Row
• Brownlow Street
• Dane Street
• Drake Street
• Eagle Street
• Gray's Inn Square
• Grays Inn Walk
• Jockey's Fields
• Lamb's Conduit Passage
• Old North Street
• Princeton Street
• Red Lion Square
• Red Lion Street
• Sandland Street
• South Square
• Theobald's Road
• Three Cups Yard
• Warwick Court
• A401

Check an address in WC1R

Check an address in WC1R

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC1R" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WC1R

What does a WC1R postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WC1R 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 79 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 WC1R

• WC1V0.2 km
• WC1A0.3 km
• WC2A0.4 km
• WC1N0.5 km
• EC1N0.5 km
• W1A0.6 km
• WC2B0.6 km
• EC4A0.7 km
• WC1B0.7 km
• WC1X0.8 km
• EC1R0.8 km
• EC1A0.8 km
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