WN2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,274 of the district's 1,479 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 53.53594, -2.58250, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WN2

Companies House lists 1,890 companies with a registered office in WN2; 242 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 WN2

• North West
• Wigan
• Hindley
• Ince-in-Makerfield
• Platt Bridge
• Aspull
• Abram
• Bickershaw
• Leigh
• Bryn Gates
• Bamfurlong
• Pennington Green
• Bolton
• Red Rock
• Crankwood
• Lakes Terrace

Roads filed under WN2

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.

• Abbott Street
• Abingdon Drive
• Acreswood Avenue
• Addington Close
• Ainscough Close
• Ainscows Meadow
• Alberton Close
• Albert Street
• Albion Drive
• Albion Street
• Albury Way
• Alder Lane
• Alderley Road
• Alders Green Road
• Aldred Street
• Alexandra Street
• Alfred Street
• Algernon Street
• All Saints Grove
• Alnwick Close
• Alston Road
• Amar Street
• Amber Gardens
• Amberley Close
• Amberswood Close
• Ambleside
• Amethyst Close
• Ancroft Drive
• Anderton Street
• Anderton Way
• Ansford Avenue
• Anvil Crescent
• Applethwaite
• Argyle Street
• Arley Close
• Armitstead Street
• Armstrong Street
• Arncliffe Close
• Arncliffe Court
• Arnside Avenue
• Arnside Road
• Arthur Street
• Arundel Street
• Ashbourne Avenue
• Ashcroft Street
• Ashdale Road
• Ashfield Avenue
• Ashfield Drive
• Ash Lane
• Ashley Road
• Ashwood Avenue
• Ashworth Street
• Askwith Road
• Aspinall Street
• Atherton Road
• Atherton Street
• Athol Crescent
• Atkinson Street
• Aughton Street
• Aye Bridge Road

Check an address in WN2

Check an address in WN2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WN2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WN2

What does a WN2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WN2 district of the WN (Wigan) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hindley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,274 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 WN2

• WN13.6 km
• WN34.3 km
• BL54.6 km
• WN76.0 km
• M466.1 km
• WN46.2 km
• BL66.8 km
• WN57.0 km
• WN67.3 km
• M298.8 km
• WA39.1 km
• WA129.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids