WR1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

432 of the district's 857 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 52.19563, -2.22201, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WR1

Companies House lists 2,414 companies with a registered office in WR1; 1,117 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 WR1

• Worcester
• Worcestershire
• West Midlands

Roads filed under WR1

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.

• Albany Terrace
• All Saints' Road
• Amber Wharf
• Angel Lane
• Angel Place
• Angel Row
• Angel Street
• Arboretum Road
• Armstrong Drive
• Ashcroft Road
• Back Lane North
• Back Lane South
• Back Walk
• Bank Street
• Barbourne Crescent
• Barbourne Lane
• Barbourne Road
• Barbourne Terrace
• Barbourne Walk
• Barry Street
• Berkeley Street
• Black Horse Walk
• Blockhouse Close
• Braymoor Road
• Brewery Walk
• Bridge Street
• Britannia Road
• Britannia Square
• Broad Street
• Brook Street
• Carden Close
• Carden Street
• Castle Place
• Castle Street
• Chamberlain Court
• Chapel Walk
• Charles Street
• Charter Place
• Cherry Tree Walk
• Cheshire Cheese Entry
• Chestnut Lane
• Chestnut Street
• Chestnut Walk
• Church Street
• City Walls Road
• Clare Street
• College Green
• College Precincts
• College Street
• College Yard
• Commandery Road
• Copenhagen Street
• Corn Market
• Croft Road
• Croft Walk
• Crown Passage
• Cumberland Street
• Deansway
• Diglis Avenue
• Diglis Parade

Check an address in WR1

Check an address in WR1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WR1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WR1

What does a WR1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WR1 district of the WR (Worcester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Worcester. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 432 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 WR1

• WR991.2 km
• WR22.0 km
• WR42.4 km
• WR32.5 km
• WR52.7 km
• WR99.0 km
• WR1411.3 km
• WR611.6 km
• WR711.8 km
• WR813.5 km
• WR1013.8 km
• WR1314.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids