WF3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

963 of the district's 1,178 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 53.72319, -1.52372, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF3

Companies House lists 1,290 companies with a registered office in WF3; 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 WF3

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Leeds
• Wakefield
• East Ardsley
• West Ardsley
• Lofthouse
• Robin Hood
• Thorpe on the Hill
• Carlton
• Bottom Boat
• Morley
• Kirklees

Roads filed under WF3

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 Close
• Aberford Road
• Acres Road
• Albion Street
• Amspool Court
• Apple Tree Close
• Apple Tree Court
• Ardsley Court
• Ardsley Falls Close
• Arthington Close
• Ash Crescent
• Ashfield Terrace
• Ash Grove
• Ash Lea
• Ash Street
• Ashton Crescent
• Ash View
• Aspen Court
• Aspen Mews
• Auty Crescent
• Auty Mews
• Avondale Drive
• Back Lane
• Back Mary Street
• Back Oakley Street
• Back Oxford Street
• Back Pawson Street
• Baghill Green
• Baghill Road
• Baker Lane
• Balk Avenue
• Balk Lane
• Balmoral Court
• Bardwell Court
• Barker Street
• Barley Mews
• Batley Road
• Bay Rise Lane
• Beamshaw Way
• Beaumont Close
• Beaumont Street
• Beck Court
• Becket Lane
• Beck Way
• Bedale
• Beech Avenue
• Beechcroft
• Beech Street
• Belmont Terrace
• Bidder Drive
• Bingham Place
• Bishop Way
• Blackgate Mews
• Black Gates Court
• Blackgates Crescent
• Blackgates Drive
• Blackgates Fold
• Black Gates Rise
• Blacksmith Mews
• Blind Lane

Check an address in WF3

Check an address in WF3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF3

What does a WF3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF3 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 963 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 WF3

• LS104.4 km
• WF14.4 km
• WF25.7 km
• LS265.8 km
• WF905.8 km
• WF55.9 km
• LS276.0 km
• LS116.3 km
• WF67.6 km
• WF127.7 km
• WF177.8 km
• LS18.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids