WC2H postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

347 of the district's 907 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 51.51332, -0.12735, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WC2H

Companies House lists 92,161 companies with a registered office in WC2H; 90,619 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 WC2H

• Greater London
• London
• Camden
• City of Westminster
• Islington

Roads filed under WC2H

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.

• Bear Street
• Betterton Street
• Bucknall Street
• Caxton Walk
• Central St Giles Piazza
• Charing Cross Road
• Ching Court
• Cranbourn Alley
• Cranbourn Street
• Denmark Place
• Denmark Street
• Earlham Street
• Earnshaw Street
• Endell Street
• Flitcroft Street
• Goslett Yard
• Grape Street
• Great Newport Street
• Irving Street
• Langley Street
• Leicester Court
• Leicester Place
• Leicester Square
• Leicester Street
• Lisle Street
• Litchfield Street
• Little Newport Street
• Long's Court
• Mercer Street
• Mercers Walk
• Monmouth Street
• Neal's Yard
• Neal Street
• New Compton Street
• Newport Court
• Newport Place
• Nottingham Court
• Odhams Walk
• Orange Street
• Phoenix Street
• Seven Dials Court
• Shaftesbury Avenue
• Shelton Street
• Shorts Gardens
• Stacey Street
• St Giles High Street
• St Giles Passage
• St Martin's Street
• Tower Court
• Tower Street
• Upper St Martin's Lane
• West Street
• Whitcomb Court
• Whitcomb Street
• A400
• B401
• B404

Check an address in WC2H

Check an address in WC2H

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC2H" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WC2H

What does a WC2H postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WC2H 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 347 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 WC2H

• WC2E0.3 km
• W1D0.4 km
• WC2N0.5 km
• WC2B0.5 km
• W1F0.6 km
• WC2R0.7 km
• WC1B0.7 km
• SW1Y0.8 km
• WC1V0.9 km
• WC1A0.9 km
• W1B0.9 km
• WC2A1.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids