WV1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

677 of the district's 1,503 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 52.58649, -2.11574, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WV1

Companies House lists 3,335 companies with a registered office in WV1; 1,146 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 WV1

• City of Wolverhampton
• West Midlands
• Wolverhampton
• Bilston

Roads filed under WV1

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.

• Abingdon Close
• Abingdon Road
• Albion Street
• Ashbourne Road
• Astbury Close
• Atherstone Road
• Barnfield Road
• Bath Avenue
• Bath Road
• Bath Street
• Bedford Street
• Bell Street
• Berry Street
• Bewdley Drive
• Bilston Street
• Birch Street
• Birkdale Close
• Blossom's Fold
• Bone Mill Lane
• Boscobel Crescent
• Bowman's Rise
• Brewery Road
• Brickheath Road
• Bright Street
• Broad Street
• Brooklands Parade
• Burcot Avenue
• Burcot Walk
• Bursledon Walk
• Camp Street
• Castle Street
• Castle Yard
• Cavendish Gardens
• Cavendish Road
• Central Arcade
• Cheapside
• Chillington Fields
• Chubb Street
• Clarence Road
• Clarence Street
• Cleveland Passage
• Cleveland Street
• Coalport Road
• Colliery Road
• Commercial Road
• Connaught Road
• Corn Hill
• Corporation Street
• Corser Street
• Coventry Street
• Cross Street
• Cross Street North
• Crown Street
• Culwick Street
• Dahlia Close
• Darlington Street
• Dean's Road
• Deanery Place
• Deanery Row
• Deansfield Road

Check an address in WV1

Check an address in WV1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WV1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WV1

What does a WV1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WV1 district of the WV (Wolverhampton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Wolverhampton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 677 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 WV1

• WV21.4 km
• WV32.9 km
• WV43.4 km
• WV103.6 km
• WV133.9 km
• WV114.0 km
• WV144.1 km
• WV64.7 km
• WV125.5 km
• WV96.0 km
• DY36.3 km
• WV86.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids