WC1V postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

94 of the district's 401 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 51.51803, -0.11653, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WC1V

Companies House lists 2,215 companies with a registered office in WC1V; 1,496 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 WC1V

• London
• Greater London
• Camden
• City of London
• City and County of the City of London
• Islington

Roads filed under WC1V

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.

• Bloomsbury Court
• Field Court
• Fisher Street
• Fulwood Place
• Great Turnstile
• Hand Court
• High Holborn
• Holborn Place
• Little Turnstile
• Procter Street
• Smart's Place
• Southampton Buildings

Check an address in WC1V

Check an address in WC1V

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC1V" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WC1V

What does a WC1V postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WC1V 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 94 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 WC1V

• WC1R0.2 km
• WC2A0.3 km
• WC1A0.4 km
• WC2B0.4 km
• EC1N0.6 km
• WC1N0.6 km
• EC4A0.6 km
• WC1B0.7 km
• WC2R0.7 km
• W1A0.7 km
• EC4Y0.8 km
• WC2E0.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids