WC2A postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

113 of the district's 436 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 51.51619, -0.11415, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WC2A

Companies House lists 9,973 companies with a registered office in WC2A; 9,182 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 WC2A

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

Roads filed under WC2A

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.

• Andrews Crosse
• Bell Yard
• Bishop's Court
• Canada Walk
• Carey Street
• Chancery Lane
• Chichester Rents
• Clare Market
• Clements Inn
• Grange Court
• Houghton Street
• Lincoln's Inn Fields
• Newman's Row
• New Square
• New Square Passage
• Old Buildings
• Old Square
• Portsmouth Street
• Portugal Street
• Quality Court
• Sardinia Street
• Serle Street
• Sheffield Street
• Southampton Buildings
• Star Yard
• St Clement's Lane
• Stone Buildings
• Whetstone Park
• B400

Check an address in WC2A

Check an address in WC2A

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC2A" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WC2A

What does a WC2A postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WC2A district of the WC (West Central London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is City of Westminster. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 113 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 WC2A

• WC1V0.3 km
• WC1R0.4 km
• EC4A0.4 km
• WC2B0.5 km
• EC4Y0.5 km
• EC1N0.6 km
• WC2R0.6 km
• WC1A0.6 km
• WC2E0.8 km
• EC1A0.8 km
• WC1N0.8 km
• WC1B0.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids