WR3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

535 of the district's 691 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 52.21713, -2.21388, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WR3

Companies House lists 936 companies with a registered office in WR3; 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 WR3

• Worcestershire
• West Midlands
• Worcester
• Wychavon
• Fernhill Heath
• Claines
• Hindlip
• Martin Hussingtree
• Hawford
• Bevere
• Lower Town
• Ladywood

Roads filed under WR3

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 View
• Addison Road
• Adelaide Close
• Agatha Gardens
• Albany Road
• Alder Close
• Alma Street
• Ascot Close
• Ash Lane
• Astwood Road
• Balmoral Close
• Bankside Close
• Barker Street
• Beckett Close
• Beckett Drive
• Beckett Road
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Avenue North
• Belmont Street
• Belmont Walk
• Berkley Gardens
• Bevere Close
• Bevere Close South
• Bevere Drive
• Bevere Lane
• Bilford Avenue
• Bilford Road
• Birchfield Close
• Bishops Avenue
• Bixton Close
• Blackpole Road
• Blanquettes Avenue
• Blanquettes Street
• Bourne Street
• Brickfields Walk
• Brickwharf Drive
• Britannia Gardens
• Broadfield Crescent
• Brockweir
• Bromsgrove Street
• Broom Meadow Road
• Browning Close
• Buckle Wood
• Butcher's Walk
• Canal Side
• Castle Close
• Catbrook
• Chacewater Avenue
• Chacewater Crescent
• Chalfont Close
• Checketts Close
• Checketts Lane
• Chestnut Close
• Cheviot Close
• Church Lane
• Church Road
• Claines Lane
• Coalbrookdale Road
• Coleridge Close
• Coley Close

Check an address in WR3

Check an address in WR3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WR3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WR3

What does a WR3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WR3 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 535 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 WR3

• WR42.2 km
• WR12.5 km
• WR992.5 km
• WR24.0 km
• WR54.8 km
• WR96.7 km
• WR711.5 km
• WR611.6 km
• WR1413.5 km
• DY1314.1 km
• WR1015.1 km
• WR815.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids