WF16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

359 of the district's 457 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 53.71023, -1.66959, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF16

Companies House lists 697 companies with a registered office in WF16; 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 WF16

• Kirklees
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Heckmondwike
• Batley
• Liversedge
• Dewsbury

Roads filed under WF16

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 Street
• Alfred Street
• Alma Lane
• Almondroyd
• Artillery Street
• Back Lane
• Badgers Walk
• Barber Square
• Barracks Street
• Bath Road
• Batley Road
• Battye Street
• Beck Lane
• Beech Grove
• Berwick Avenue
• Bevor Crescent
• Birkhead Street
• Blanket Hall Street
• Boundary Street
• Brewery Street
• Briar Close
• Briar Court
• Bridge Street
• Brighton Street
• Brooke Street
• Brunswick Place
• Brunswick Street
• Cambridge Street
• Cannon Grove
• Capas Heights Way
• Carlton Road
• Carriage Way
• Castle Hill View
• Cater Lane
• Cawley Garth
• Cawley Lane
• Cemetery Road
• Centre Street
• Chalcroft Close
• Chapel Avenue
• Chapel Lane
• Churchill Grove
• Church Lane
• Church Street
• Claremont
• Clarkson Avenue
• Clarkson Close
• Clarydon Place
• Commercial Street
• Cook Lane
• Crabtree Avenue
• Croft Street
• Crowther Road
• Curwen Crescent
• Dale Lane
• Darley Street
• Deacons Walk
• Eldon Street
• Elm Grove
• Fairfield Avenue

Check an address in WF16

Check an address in WF16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF16

What does a WF16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF16 district of the WF (Wakefield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Heckmondwike. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 359 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 WF16

• WF172.0 km
• WF152.0 km
• WF132.5 km
• BD193.5 km
• WF143.8 km
• WF124.4 km
• BD114.7 km
• LS276.1 km
• WF57.0 km
• BD127.3 km
• HD67.6 km
• BD48.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids