WN7 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,212 of the district's 1,534 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 53.49810, -2.51844, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WN7

Companies House lists 2,328 companies with a registered office in WN7; 112 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 WN7

• Wigan
• North West
• Leigh
• Higher Folds
• Golborne
• Hindley
• Crankwood
• Atherton
• Lately Common

Roads filed under WN7

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 Lane
• Abbey Square
• Abbey Street
• Abbingdon Way
• Ackers Fold
• Acorn Close
• Acorn Court
• Adamson Grove
• Ainscoughs Court
• Albion Street
• Alder Close
• Alderley Lane
• Aldred Street
• Alma Street
• Alpine Drive
• Alt Close
• Alwyn Close
• Ambrose Avenue
• Ambrose Fold
• Anchor Field
• Angus Avenue
• Ann Street
• Arbory Close
• Archer Street
• Arley Drive
• Arlington Drive
• Armfield Grove
• Arrow Street
• Arthur Street
• Arundel Drive
• Ashbourne Close
• Ashby Grove
• Ashley Drive
• Aspull Common
• Aspull Court
• Astley Street
• Atherleigh Grove
• Atherleigh Way
• Austin Street
• Avocet Close
• Avon Street
• Back Market Street
• Back Queen Street
• Back Salford
• Baines Close
• Balmoral Drive
• Banbury Close
• Bangor Fold
• Banks Court
• Barbury Close
• Barker Street
• Barrie Street
• Barron Meadow
• Batheaston Grove
• Battersby Street
• Bay Tree Close
• Beaumaris Close
• Beckfield Close
• Bedford Street
• Beech Crescent

Check an address in WN7

Check an address in WN7

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WN7" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WN7

What does a WN7 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WN7 district of the WN (Wigan) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Leigh. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,212 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 WN7

• M463.5 km
• M294.2 km
• WA35.0 km
• BL55.6 km
• WN26.0 km
• M387.4 km
• M288.1 km
• WN48.4 km
• M448.8 km
• WA129.1 km
• WN39.1 km
• BL39.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids