WN1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

690 of the district's 1,296 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 53.55354, -2.62792, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WN1

Companies House lists 1,451 companies with a registered office in WN1; 326 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 WN1

• North West
• Wigan
• Ince-in-Makerfield
• Worthington
• Standish
• Bolton
• Red Rock

Roads filed under WN1

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.

• Acton Street
• Acton Terrace
• Alden Close
• Alfred Street
• Alliance Street
• Alwyn Street
• Alwyn Terrace
• Arcade Street
• Arley Lane
• Ascroft Street
• Ashford Rise
• Ashland Avenue
• Ashton Street
• Avondale Road
• Back Mesnes Street
• Baclaw Close
• Bailey's Court
• Balcarres Avenue
• Baldwin Street
• Balniel Walk
• Barrack Square
• Barracks Yard
• Barrowcroft Close
• Barton Avenue
• Bedford Street
• Beggars' Walk
• Believe Square
• Bellingham Avenue
• Bellingham Drive
• Bellingham Mount
• Belvoir Street
• Bengairn Close
• Berwick Place
• Bethersden Road
• Birkett Bank
• Birkett Street
• Bishopgate
• Bores Hill
• Bores Meadow
• Boundary Street
• Bradshawgate
• Bradshaw Street
• Bretherton Row
• Brewery Yard
• Brick Kiln Lane
• Bridgeman Terrace
• Brock Mill Lane
• Brock Street
• Brockwood View
• Brookhouse Street
• Brookhouse Terrace
• Brookland Road
• Brookside Road
• Broomhey Avenue
• Broomhey Terrace
• Bryham Street
• Butler Street
• Cambridge Street
• Cambridge Way
• Canal Bank

Check an address in WN1

Check an address in WN1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WN1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WN1

What does a WN1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WN1 district of the WN (Wigan) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Wigan. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 690 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 WN1

• WN33.0 km
• WN23.6 km
• WN63.8 km
• WN54.6 km
• WN46.7 km
• BL67.2 km
• BL57.4 km
• WN89.4 km
• M469.5 km
• WN79.5 km
• WA1110.4 km
• PR710.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids