WS8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

323 of the district's 408 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 52.64737, -1.93314, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WS8

Companies House lists 658 companies with a registered office in WS8; 51 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 WS8

• West Midlands
• Walsall
• Brownhills
• Clayhanger
• Staffordshire
• Lichfield
• Norton Canes
• Cannock Chase

Roads filed under WS8

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 Road
• Albion Road
• Albutts Road
• Allerdale Road
• Anglesey Crescent
• Anglesey Road
• Apex Road
• Barnetts Lane
• Barracks Lane
• Bell Heather Road
• Birch Avenue
• Blithfield Road
• Bradbury Close
• Bradford Road
• Bramble Close
• Bransdale Road
• Brickiln Street
• Bridge Close
• Bridgeside Close
• Bridge Street
• Bridge Way
• Brownhills Road
• Bullows Road
• Bulrush Close
• Cape Close
• Castle Close
• Castle Street
• Catshill Road
• Cedar Avenue
• Chandlers Keep
• Chapel Avenue
• Chapel Drive
• Chapel Street
• Chase Road
• Cherwell Drive
• Chester Road
• Chester Road North
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Claverdon Close
• Clayhanger Lane
• Clayhanger Road
• Clifton Avenue
• Clydesdale Road
• Collier Close
• Collins Road
• Common Side
• Coppice Crescent
• Coppice Lane
• Coppice Side
• Cormorant Close
• Cornflower Road
• Croft Crescent
• Crowberry Close
• Curlew Drive
• Cygnet Drive
• Dawes Lane
• Deakin Avenue
• Dingle Road
• Dunnerdale Road

Check an address in WS8

Check an address in WS8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WS8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WS8

What does a WS8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WS8 district of the WS (Walsall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Brownhills. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 323 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 WS8

• WS73.7 km
• WS94.3 km
• WS44.8 km
• WS35.0 km
• WS66.2 km
• WS117.2 km
• WS28.0 km
• WS148.1 km
• WS128.1 km
• WS18.2 km
• B748.5 km
• WV128.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids