WD5 postcode district
WD5, in the WD (Watford) postcode area, has 261 live and 114 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 131 roads under it.
| postcode area | WD (Watford) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 261 |
| terminated postcodes | 114 |
| sectors | 2 |
| roads listed | 131 |
| companies registered | 536 |
| centroid | 51.70338, -0.41620 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
261 of the district's 375 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 51.70338, -0.41620, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| WD5 0 | 256 | 76 |
| WD5 5 | 5 | 38 |
Companies registered in WD5
Companies House lists 536 companies with a registered office in WD5; none of them at an address 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 WD5
- Hertfordshire
- Eastern
- Three Rivers
- Abbots Langley
- Watford
- Bedmond
- St. Albans
- Sergehill
Roads filed under WD5
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.
- Abbey Drive
- Abbots Road
- Adrian Road
- Arundell Road
- Ash Close
- Balmoral Road
- Bedmond Lane
- Bedmond Road
- Bell Close
- Bell Lane
- Berkeley Close
- Bishop Court
- Blenhiem Road
- Bluebell Drive
- Breakspear Court
- Breakspeare Road
- Broomfield Rise
- Cardiff Way
- Chapel Way
- Cherry Hollow
- Church Hill
- College Road
- Creasy Close
- Dairy Way
- Deans Close
- De Havilland Way
- Dellmeadow
- East Lane
- Edinburgh Drive
- Edward Close
- Essex Lane
- Fay Green
- Featherbed Lane
- Follett Drive
- Furtherfield
- Gable Close
- Gallows Hill Lane
- Garden Road
- Gill Orchard
- Glenmore Gardens
- Greenways
- Harlech Road
- Hawthorn Close
- Hazelbury Avenue
- Hazelwood Lane
- Heather Close
- Helston Place
- Henderson Place
- High Acres
- High Street
- Hillside Close
- Hurricane Way
- Jacketts Field
- Katherine Place
- Keble Terrace
- Kindersley Way
- Kitters Green
- Lancaster Way
- Langley Lane
- Langley Road
all 131 roads
- Lapwing Way
- Linnet Road
- Little Graylings
- Little How Croft
- Little Orchard Close
- Long Barn Close
- Long Elms
- Long Elms Close
- Love Lane
- Lysander Way
- Magnolia Avenue
- Mallard Road
- Manor House Gardens
- Maple Leaf Close
- Margaret Close
- Marlin Square
- Meadow Way
- Millhouse Lane
- Mitchell Close
- Newlands Park Caravan Site
- Nightingale Close
- Notley Court
- Oak Green
- Oak Green Way
- Oak Tree Close
- Old Trowley
- Oriole Close
- Parnell Close
- Parsonage Close
- Peacock Walk
- Pinehurst Close
- Pope's Road
- Pryor Close
- Queens Drive
- Raymond Close
- Redwing Grove
- Rosehill Gardens
- School Mead
- Searches Lane
- Sergehill Lane
- Shackleton Way
- Shepherd Close
- Sheppey's Lane
- Shirley Road
- South Way
- Spur Close
- St Albans Lane
- Standfield
- Stewart Close
- Stirling Way
- St Lawrence Close
- Summerhouse Way
- Swallow Oaks
- Tanners Hill
- Tanners Wood Close
- Tanners Wood Lane
- The Copse
- The Crescent
- The Fairway
- The Garth
- The Graylings
- The Hideaway
- Tibbs Hill Road
- Toms Lane
- Trowley Rise
- Tylersfield
- Wadham Road
- Whitehouse Lane
- Whitley Close
- Woodland Way
- Woodside Road
Check an address in WD5
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WD5" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about WD5
- What does a WD5 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the WD5 district of the WD (Watford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Abbots Langley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 261 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 WD5
- WD252.7 km
- WD42.8 km
- WD243.5 km
- WD174.4 km
- HP35.2 km
- AL25.8 km
- WD186.0 km
- HP27.2 km
- WD77.6 km
- WD237.6 km
- HP17.7 km
- WD37.8 km
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