WC2N postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

142 of the district's 495 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 51.50913, -0.12492, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WC2N

Companies House lists 2,226 companies with a registered office in WC2N; 1,576 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 WC2N

• Greater London
• London
• City of Westminster
• Islington

Roads filed under WC2N

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.

• Adam Street
• Adelaide Street
• Adelphi Terrace
• Agar Street
• Bedfordbury
• Bedford Court
• Brydges Place
• Buckingham Street
• Chandos Place
• Charing Cross
• Corner House Street
• Craven Passage
• Craven Street
• Duncannon Street
• Durham House Street
• Embankment Place
• George Court
• Hop Gardens
• Hungerford Lane
• Ivybridge Lane
• John Adam Street
• Lower Robert Street
• Mays Court
• New Row
• Northumberland Avenue
• Northumberland Street
• Robert Street
• St Martin's Lane
• St Martin's Place
• Victoria Embankment
• Villiers Street
• Watergate Walk
• William Iv Street
• York Buildings
• York Place
• A3211
• B404

Check an address in WC2N

Check an address in WC2N

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC2N" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WC2N

What does a WC2N postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WC2N 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 142 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 WC2N

• WC2E0.3 km
• WC2H0.5 km
• WC2R0.6 km
• SW1Y0.7 km
• W1D0.7 km
• WC2B0.7 km
• SW1A0.7 km
• W1F0.9 km
• WC2A1.1 km
• WC1V1.1 km
• WC1B1.2 km
• EC4Y1.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids