WF8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,022 of the district's 1,333 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 53.68647, -1.30043, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WF8

Companies House lists 1,545 companies with a registered office in WF8; 269 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 WF8

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Wakefield
• Pontefract
• Darrington
• North Yorkshire
• Thorpe Audlin
• East Hardwick
• Little Smeaton
• Kirk Smeaton
• Wentbridge
• Stapleton
• Doncaster

Roads filed under WF8

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 Gardens
• Abbey Mews
• Abbey Walk
• Acacia Green
• Ackworth Bridle Road
• Ackworth Road
• Albany Court
• Alden Crescent
• Anderson Street
• Apple Tree Close
• Applewood Gardens
• Argyll Avenue
• Armstrong Terrace
• Ashbourne Drive
• Ashdene Grove
• Ash Green
• Ash Grove
• Ashleigh Avenue
• Ash Tree Fold
• Ashworth Road
• Askam Avenue
• Ass Hill
• Atkinson Lane
• Avens Close
• Back Lane
• Back Northgate
• Back Street
• Baden Powell Crescent
• Baghill Lane
• Bailey Close
• Balmoral Close
• Banbury Road
• Banks Avenue
• Banks Mount
• Bank Wood Road
• Barbican Way
• Barnswick Close
• Barstow Fall
• Bassett Way
• Bates Lane
• Battle Court
• Battle Grove
• Baxtergate
• Beastfair
• Beech Close
• Beech Crescent
• Beech Croft
• Beech Hill
• Beechnut Lane
• Beech Street
• Beechwood
• Beechwood Avenue
• Beechwood Crescent
• Beeston Close
• Beeston Drive
• Bexhill Close
• Birch Green
• Birch Way
• Blackburns Yard
• Blackthorn Avenue

Check an address in WF8

Check an address in WF8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WF8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WF8

What does a WF8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WF8 district of the WF (Wakefield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Pontefract. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,022 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 WF8

• WF114.0 km
• WF74.1 km
• WF105.2 km
• WF67.7 km
• WF99.0 km
• LS2511.2 km
• LS2612.2 km
• WF9012.6 km
• WF112.7 km
• DN612.7 km
• S7213.4 km
• WF214.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids