WS12 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

756 of the district's 1,388 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 52.70744, -2.00218, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WS12

Companies House lists 1,805 companies with a registered office in WS12; 296 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 WS12

• Staffordshire
• West Midlands
• Cannock Chase
• Cannock
• South Staffordshire
• Huntington
• Rawnsley
• Hazelslade
• Prospect Village
• Stafford

Roads filed under WS12

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 Street
• Acacia Grove
• Adams Way
• Adelaide Drive
• Aintree Close
• Albany Drive
• Albert Davie Drive
• Albert Street
• Alder Way
• Almond Road
• Alnwick Close
• Alpine Drive
• Alston Close
• Anglesey Crescent
• Anglesey Street
• Ansty Drive
• Appledore Close
• Archer Drive
• Ardgay Drive
• Arnotdale Drive
• Arthur Street
• Ashdale Close
• Ash View
• Aspen Court
• Avenue Road
• Badger Close
• Badgers Way
• Bakers Way
• Balmoral Drive
• Bank Street
• Barber Close
• Barley Close
• Barnfield Way
• Barn Way
• Bayliss Drive
• Beacon Way
• Beaudesert View
• Bedford Place
• Beech Court
• Beech Grove
• Beech Pine Close
• Bell Drive
• Belt Road
• Bentley Brook Lane
• Berry Hill
• Beverley Hill
• Bilberry Crescent
• Birchfields Drive
• Bishop Street
• Blackthorn Crescent
• Blewitt Street
• Bluebell Close
• Bondway
• Booth Street
• Borton Drive
• Boston Close
• Bourne Close
• Bracken Close
• Bracken Road
• Bradbury Court

Check an address in WS12

Check an address in WS12

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WS12" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WS12

What does a WS12 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WS12 district of the WS (Walsall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Cannock. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 756 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 WS12

• WS112.4 km
• WS65.6 km
• WS76.2 km
• WS158.1 km
• WS88.1 km
• WS39.8 km
• ST199.8 km
• ST1711.1 km
• WS411.6 km
• WV1211.6 km
• WV1111.7 km
• WS912.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids