WN3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

715 of the district's 919 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 53.52891, -2.64615, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WN3

Companies House lists 2,126 companies with a registered office in WN3; 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 WN3

• Wigan
• North West
• Ince-in-Makerfield

Roads filed under WN3

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.

• Abberley Way
• Adams Drive
• Addison Street
• Airton Place
• Alder Lee Close
• Alderney Drive
• Aldridge Close
• Aldwyn Close
• Alfred Street
• Algernon Street
• Allonby Close
• Alma Grove
• Alverton Court
• Amesbury Drive
• Andover Crescent
• Annesley Crescent
• Anthorn Road
• Antrim Close
• Appleton Grove
• Appleton Street
• Arley Street
• Ashby Road
• Ashdale Road
• Atholl Grove
• Attingham Walk
• Aveley Gardens
• Baker Street
• Baldwin Street
• Bamford Road
• Banham Avenue
• Banner Street
• Bannister Way
• Barngill Grove
• Barrington Close
• Bassett Grove
• Baucher Road
• Baverstock Close
• Beech Walk
• Belgrave Close
• Belvedere Place
• Bembridge Court
• Bentinck Street
• Berkeley Avenue
• Bewerley Close
• Birbeck Close
• Birchwood Close
• Birkside Close
• Blake Close
• Bleaklow Close
• Blundell Mews
• Blundells Court
• Bor Avenue
• Boswell Place
• Brackley Court
• Bradford Street
• Braemore Close
• Bransfield Close
• Bratton Close
• Bridge Street
• Bridgewater Street

Check an address in WN3

Check an address in WN3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WN3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WN3

What does a WN3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WN3 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 715 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 WN3

• WN52.8 km
• WN13.0 km
• WN43.9 km
• WN24.3 km
• WN65.4 km
• WA117.5 km
• WA128.4 km
• WN88.6 km
• BL58.9 km
• WN79.1 km
• BL69.9 km
• M4610.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids