WF12 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

820 of the district's 1,044 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 53.68348, -1.61970, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF12

Companies House lists 1,927 companies with a registered office in WF12; 154 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 WF12

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Kirklees
• Dewsbury
• Whitley Lower
• Leeds
• Wakefield
• Briestfield
• Batley

Roads filed under WF12

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.

• Albion Road
• Aldams Road
• Alderney Road
• Almscliffe Avenue
• Amberwood Chase
• Anchor Bridge Way
• Armitage Buildings
• Ashfield
• Athlone Drive
• Back Lane
• Back Slaithwaite Road
• Bank Grove
• Bank Street
• Bank View
• Becks Court
• Bendigo Road
• Bennett Lane
• Beverley Drive
• Blackers Court
• Bluebell Walk
• Boldgrove Street
• Borrowdale Road
• Bottoms Road
• Boundary Court
• Bretfield Court
• Bretton Park Way
• Bretton Street
• Brewery Lane
• Briestfield Road
• Briggs Lane
• Broadoaks Close
• Broad Way Court
• Bullfields Close
• Bywell Close
• Bywell Road
• Calder Bank Road
• Caldermill Way
• Caledonian Road
• Camilla Court
• Canterbury Road
• Cardwell Terrace
• Carlton Terrace
• Carr Lane
• Castle Crescent
• Castle Mount
• Cedar Court
• Cedar Drive
• Cedar Road
• Centenary Square
• Chancery Road
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Lane
• Chapel Street
• Charles Street
• Charlesworth Street
• Chatsworth Court
• Chatsworth Terrace
• Chestnut Terrace
• Chickenley Lane
• Chidswell Gardens

Check an address in WF12

Check an address in WF12

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF12" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF12

What does a WF12 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF12 district of the WF (Wakefield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dewsbury. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 820 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 WF12

• WF132.0 km
• WF52.9 km
• WF174.2 km
• WF164.4 km
• WF145.0 km
• WF156.0 km
• WF27.2 km
• LS277.3 km
• WF37.7 km
• WF47.8 km
• BD197.9 km
• WF18.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids