WF2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,330 of the district's 1,631 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 53.67232, -1.51254, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF2

Companies House lists 2,986 companies with a registered office in WF2; 535 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 WF2

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Wakefield
• Walton
• Kirkhamgate
• Newmillerdam
• Leeds
• Brandy Carr

Roads filed under WF2

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.

• Acute Terrace
• Adwick Grove
• Agbrigg Grove
• Airedale Heights
• Alder Avenue
• Allan Haigh Close
• Allerton Road
• Almond Avenue
• Almshouse Lane
• Alverthorpe Road
• Ambleside Drive
• Anderson Street
• Applegarth
• Apple Shawn Crescent
• Appleton Court
• Armitage Road
• Asdale Road
• Ashdale
• Ashleigh Avenue
• Ashley Close
• Aspen Close
• Attlee Crescent
• Autumn Mews
• Avenue Road
• Avondale Street
• Avondale Way
• Aysgarth Close
• Aysgarth Drive
• Back Lane
• Balne Avenue
• Balne Lane
• Balne Mill Court
• Balne Mill Grove
• Bankfield Court
• Bankfield Drive
• Barnsley Road
• Barrass Yard
• Basford Court
• Basford Street
• Batley Road
• Beck Bottom
• Beckley Road
• Bective Road
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Croft
• Beechfield
• Beechwood Avenue
• Bembridge Court
• Benjamin Street
• Benjamin Sykes Way
• Bentley Road
• Bethel Place
• Bevan Place
• Billingham Close
• Birch Way
• Bishops Croft
• Blackthorn Way
• Blakeley Grove
• Blakey Road
• Blind Lane

Check an address in WF2

Check an address in WF2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF2

What does a WF2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF2 district of the WF (Wakefield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Wakefield. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,330 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 WF2

• WF901.4 km
• WF12.1 km
• WF42.9 km
• WF54.3 km
• WF35.7 km
• WF67.1 km
• WF127.2 km
• WF139.1 km
• LS269.7 km
• WF1710.0 km
• LS1010.1 km
• LS2710.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids