WF17 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,112 of the district's 1,482 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 53.71886, -1.64235, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF17

Companies House lists 2,982 companies with a registered office in WF17; 137 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 WF17

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

Roads filed under WF17

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 Road
• Albert Close
• Albion Street
• Alder Mews
• Aldersyde
• Alexandra Avenue
• Alexandra Road
• Alfred Street
• Alfreds Way
• Almond Way
• Alpine Close
• Amber Street
• Anne Street
• Apple Close
• Arncliffe Gardens
• Arncliffe Road
• Arthur Grove
• Arundel Close
• Arundel Walk
• Ashcroft Close
• Ashfield Road
• Ashmead
• Asquith Fields
• Asquith Street
• Aysgarth Road
• Back Beaumont Street
• Back Carlinghow Lane
• Back Henrietta Street
• Back Mount Avenue
• Back Norfolk Street
• Back Providence Street
• Back Purlwell Hall Road
• Back Purlwell Lane
• Back Snowdon Street
• Back Station Road
• Back Warwick Terrace
• Baines Street
• Balk Street
• Bank Field Road
• Bankfoot Street
• Banks Street
• Bankwood Way
• Baptist Street
• Barden Close
• Bar Street
• Barton Place
• Bath Street
• Batley Field Hill
• Bayldons Place
• Beaumont Place
• Beaumont Street
• Beckett Street
• Beck View
• Beechdale Avenue
• Beech Tree Mews
• Beech Way
• Belle Vue Street
• Belvedere Road
• Bempton Grove
• Benny Parr Close

Check an address in WF17

Check an address in WF17

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF17

What does a WF17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF17 district of the WF (Wakefield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Batley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,112 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 WF17

• WF162.0 km
• WF133.0 km
• WF154.0 km
• WF124.2 km
• LS274.2 km
• BD114.3 km
• BD194.8 km
• WF145.6 km
• WF56.1 km
• WF37.8 km
• BD48.1 km
• BD128.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids