WS3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,003 of the district's 1,203 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 52.61963, -1.99170, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WS3

Companies House lists 1,768 companies with a registered office in WS3; 111 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 WS3

• West Midlands
• Walsall
• Bloxwich
• Pelsall
• Staffordshire
• Cannock Chase
• Shelfield
• Little Wyrley
• South Staffordshire

Roads filed under WS3

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 Drive
• Abbey Square
• Abbotts Place
• Abbotts Street
• Abingdon Road
• Abingdon Way
• Addenbrooke Street
• Aldeburgh Close
• Alderley Crescent
• Alfred Street
• Allens Lane
• Almond Close
• Alnwick Road
• Alvaston Close
• Ambergate Close
• Anode Grove
• Arbury Grove
• Archer Road
• Armside Close
• Arrow Road
• Ashbourne Road
• Ashes Lane
• Ashfield Close
• Ashley Road
• Ash Street
• Ashtree Road
• Astbury Close
• Avon Crescent
• Avon Road
• Awlmakers Grove
• Badgers Close
• Bagnall Street
• Bakewell Close
• Bamford Close
• Bamford Road
• Barn Owl Drive
• Barracks Lane
• Barracks Place
• Baslow Close
• Baslow Road
• Baytree Close
• Baytree Road
• Bealeys Close
• Bealeys Lane
• Beatrice Street
• Beddows Road
• Beeches Place
• Beeches Road
• Beechwood Close
• Belfry Close
• Bell Lane
• Bell Tower Close
• Belper Road
• Benton Crescent
• Beresford Road
• Billet Crescent
• Birkdale Road
• Bittern Close
• Blakenall Heath
• Blakenall Lane

Check an address in WS3

Check an address in WS3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WS3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WS3

What does a WS3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WS3 district of the WS (Walsall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bloxwich. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,003 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 WS3

• WS42.6 km
• WS23.5 km
• WV123.6 km
• WS14.6 km
• WS64.8 km
• WS85.0 km
• WS95.1 km
• WV115.5 km
• WV135.9 km
• WS56.4 km
• WS106.9 km
• WS117.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids