WS2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

739 of the district's 984 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 52.58938, -2.00442, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WS2

Companies House lists 2,456 companies with a registered office in WS2; 33 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 WS2

• Walsall
• West Midlands
• Bloxwich
• Willenhall
• Darlaston

Roads filed under WS2

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.

• Adams Street
• Albert Street
• Aldis Road
• Alexander Road
• Alma Street
• Almond Avenue
• Alumwell Close
• Alum Well Road
• Amberwood Close
• Anson Road
• Appleyard Close
• Arkwright Road
• Armstrong Drive
• Arnold Close
• Arnwood Close
• Art Court
• Ashdown Grove
• Attlee Road
• Augustus Street
• Bader Road
• Bakers Street
• Balmoral Way
• Basalt Close
• Bassett Street
• Bate Street
• Beacon View
• Belgrave Walk
• Bentley Drive
• Bentley Lane
• Bentley Mill Close
• Bentley Mill Lane
• Bentley Mill Way
• Bentley New Drive
• Bentley Place
• Bentley Road North
• Berkeley Street
• Berkley Close
• Bescot Drive
• Bescot Road
• Bevin Road
• Birchills Street
• Birchover Road
• Birch Street
• Blay Avenue
• Bloxwich Lane
• Bloxwich Road
• Blue Lane East
• Blue Lane West
• Boulevard Walk
• Brewer Street
• Bridgeman Street
• Brighton Close
• Brindley Close
• Brineton Street
• Brook Street
• Brunswick Street
• Bryan Road
• Burgh Way
• Burrowes Street
• Cable Drive

Check an address in WS2

Check an address in WS2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WS2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WS2

What does a WS2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WS2 district of the WS (Walsall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Walsall. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 739 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 WS2

• WS12.1 km
• WV123.0 km
• WS103.4 km
• WS33.5 km
• WS43.6 km
• WV133.7 km
• WS54.1 km
• WV115.1 km
• B716.0 km
• WV146.2 km
• WS96.2 km
• B436.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids