WF6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

587 of the district's 684 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 53.70038, -1.41565, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF6

Companies House lists 1,047 companies with a registered office in WF6; 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 WF6

• Wakefield
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Normanton
• Castleford
• Goosehill

Roads filed under WF6

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.

• Addison Avenue
• Agincourt Drive
• Albert Street
• Alder Crescent
• Alder Grove
• Alexandra Drive
• Altofts Hall Road
• Altofts Lodge Drive
• Altofts Road
• Ambler Court
• Armstrong Close
• Ashfield Avenue
• Ashfield Court
• Ashfield Drive
• Ashfield Street
• Ashgap Lane
• Ash Tree Gardens
• Aspen Avenue
• Aspen Court
• Aspen Street
• Assembly Street
• Atkinson Court
• Attlee Street
• Augusta Drive
• Bacon Avenue
• Bannockburn Way
• Beckbridge Green
• Beckbridge Lane
• Beckbridge Road
• Beckbridge Way
• Beech Grove
• Belfry Way
• Benson Gardens
• Benson Lane
• Bevan Avenue
• Beverley Close
• Birch Road
• Birkwood Road
• Bodmin Drive
• Bosworth Avenue
• Bransdale Avenue
• Bransdale Close
• Bransdale Mews
• Bransdale Walk
• Bridge Street
• Brookfield Court
• Brook Street
• Broome Close
• Browns Green
• Buckle Lane
• Buckthorne Court
• Buckthorne Gardens
• Buckthorne Road
• Butcher's Gap Lane
• Calverley Green Road
• Cambridge Street
• Caprington Court
• Cardinal Grove
• Carlton Close
• Carlton Gardens

Check an address in WF6

Check an address in WF6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF6

What does a WF6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF6 district of the WF (Wakefield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Normanton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 587 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 WF6

• WF105.2 km
• WF15.3 km
• WF75.6 km
• WF905.7 km
• LS266.1 km
• WF27.1 km
• WF37.6 km
• WF87.7 km
• WF49.1 km
• LS1010.3 km
• WF1110.6 km
• WF510.8 km
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