WN6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

932 of the district's 1,098 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 53.57551, -2.67149, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WN6

Companies House lists 2,188 companies with a registered office in WN6; 464 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 WN6

• North West
• Wigan
• Standish
• Lancashire
• West Lancashire
• Shevington
• Shevington Vale
• Shevington Moor
• Appley Bridge
• Mossy Lea
• Wrightington Bar
• Crooke
• Hunger Hill
• Robin Hood
• Wrightington
• High Moor
• Gathurst
• Chorley

Roads filed under WN6

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 Court
• Abbey Dale
• Abbeyfields
• Acacia Crescent
• Ackhurst Lane
• Adelphi Street
• Albatross Close
• Aldford Way
• Almond Brook Road
• Almond Crescent
• Almond Green Avenue
• Almond Pastures
• Apple Hey
• Apple Lane
• Appley Close
• Appley Lane North
• Appley Lane South
• Arbour Lane
• Artisan Close
• Ascroft Avenue
• Ash Close
• Ashfield Park Drive
• Ash Grove
• Ashurst Road
• Aspen Walk
• Aspinall Road
• Austin Drive
• Avondale Street
• Ayrefield Grove
• Back Lane
• Back Skull House Lane
• Bakewell Drive
• Bankbrook
• Bank Mews
• Bankwood
• Bannister Court
• Bannister Lane
• Barbrook Close
• Barley Brook Street
• Barnsley Street
• Baxter Street
• Baytree Road
• Beacon Road
• Beacon View
• Beech Crescent
• Beech Grove
• Beech Hall Street
• Beech Hill Avenue
• Beech Hill Lane
• Beech Tree Avenue
• Beech Walk
• Beechwood Avenue
• Belfry Crescent
• Bentham Place
• Bentham Road
• Beresford Street
• Bermside Close
• Bessie's Well Place
• Birch Avenue
• Birch Street

Check an address in WN6

Check an address in WN6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WN6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WN6

What does a WN6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WN6 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 932 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 WN6

• WN13.8 km
• WN55.0 km
• WN35.4 km
• WN87.0 km
• WN27.3 km
• PR78.2 km
• BL68.8 km
• WN49.3 km
• BL510.7 km
• PR611.0 km
• WA1111.3 km
• L4011.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids