WR8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

343 of the district's 442 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 52.07441, -2.20660, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WR8

Companies House lists 584 companies with a registered office in WR8; 75 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 WR8

• Worcestershire
• West Midlands
• Malvern Hills
• Upton upon Severn
• Wychavon
• Hanley Swan
• Defford
• Ryall
• Severn Stoke
• Hanley Castle
• Wadborough
• The Grove
• Besford
• Earl's Croome
• Baughton
• Hook Bank
• Longdon Heath
• Upper Strensham
• Pirton
• Woodmancote
• Rhydd Green
• Gilbert's End
• Brotheridge Green
• The Hook

Roads filed under WR8

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.

• Apple Tree Gardens
• Ash Lea
• Avenue Road
• Backfields Lane
• Baughton Lane
• Bay Tree Close
• Beckford Grove
• Birch Lane
• Bluebell Lane
• Bourne Road
• Bowling Green
• Box Tree Close
• Brinkley Drive
• Broad Hill
• Bromley Court
• Brookside Close
• Brown Square
• Buryfields Walk
• Causeway Lane
• Chapmans Orchard
• Charles Orchard
• Cherry Blossom Close
• Cherry Orchard
• Church Close
• Church Lane
• Church Mews
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Church Walk
• Copperfield
• Court Lea
• Court Road
• Court Street
• Coverfield
• Crabbe Lane
• Croome Road
• Crown Court
• Crown Lane
• Cut Throat Lane
• Dunn's Lane
• Earls Grange
• East Waterside
• Furlongs Road
• Furrow Close
• Gardens Close
• Gardens Walk
• Gilberts End Lane
• Glebeland
• Greenfields Road
• Green Lane
• Ham Lane
• Ham View
• Hangman's Lane
• Hanley Orchard
• Harewell Lane
• Harpley Orchard
• Harpley Road
• High Green
• High Street
• Hill Road

Check an address in WR8

Check an address in WR8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WR8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WR8

What does a WR8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WR8 district of the WR (Worcester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Upton upon Severn. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 343 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 WR8

• WR148.9 km
• WR139.5 km
• GL209.6 km
• WR1010.5 km
• WR511.1 km
• WR213.0 km
• WR9913.4 km
• WR113.5 km
• WR414.4 km
• GL1915.4 km
• WR315.9 km
• HR816.7 km
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