WF4 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,269 of the district's 1,541 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 53.64662, -1.51922, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF4

Companies House lists 2,263 companies with a registered office in WF4; 230 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 WF4

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Wakefield
• Horbury
• Crofton
• Kirklees
• Crigglestone
• Ryhill
• Sharlston
• Havercroft
• Netherton
• Durkar
• Middlestown
• Hall Green
• Grange Moor
• Flockton
• Calder Grove
• Notton
• Woolley
• Overton
• Coxley
• West Bretton
• Flockton Green
• Chapelthorpe
• Wragby

Roads filed under WF4

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.

• Abbot Lane
• Aberfield Drive
• Addingford Close
• Addingford Drive
• Addingford Lane
• Addison Court
• Albion Mews
• Alexandra Lane
• Applehaigh Court
• Applehaigh Lane
• Appletree Court
• Arden Court
• Asdale Road
• Ash Brow
• Ashdene Approach
• Ashdene Avenue
• Ashdene Crescent
• Ashdene Drive
• Ashdene Garth
• Ash Street
• Ashwood Grange
• Ashwood Green
• Ashwood Grove
• Ashwood Heights
• Ashwood Parade
• Attlee Avenue
• Audsley's Yard
• Backhouse Lane
• Back Lane
• Badger Close
• Bailey Walk
• Balk Lane
• Bank Street
• Baring - Gould Way
• Barker's Road
• Barker Road
• Bar Lane
• Barnsley Road
• Beachill Crescent
• Beachill Drive
• Beachill Road
• Beaumont Drive
• Beckett Close
• Beckett Court
• Beckside
• Beck View
• Bedford Avenue
• Bedford Close
• Bedford Farm Court
• Beech Avenue
• Beechfield Drive
• Beech View
• Beechwood Grove
• Ben Booth Lane
• Bennett Avenue
• Benton Crescent
• Benwood View
• Berry's Yard
• Berry Lane
• Bethan Court

Check an address in WF4

Check an address in WF4

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF4" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF4

What does a WF4 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF4 district of the WF (Wakefield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Horbury. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,269 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 WF4

• WF22.9 km
• WF903.6 km
• WF14.9 km
• WF55.3 km
• WF127.8 km
• WF38.5 km
• S719.0 km
• WF69.1 km
• S759.3 km
• WF139.8 km
• WF711.2 km
• S7211.3 km
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