WV8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

432 of the district's 525 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 52.62589, -2.18754, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WV8

Companies House lists 692 companies with a registered office in WV8; 59 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 WV8

• West Midlands
• South Staffordshire
• Staffordshire
• Codsall
• Bilbrook
• Wolverhampton
• City of Wolverhampton
• Oaken
• Shropshire
• Codsall Wood

Roads filed under WV8

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.

• Acacia Crescent
• Acorn Grove
• Albert Close
• Alderford Close
• Alexander Road
• Arps Road
• Ash Close
• Ashley Gardens
• Azalea Close
• Bakers Gardens
• Bakers Way
• Bardwell Close
• Barley Close
• Barnhurst Lane
• Barnwood Road
• Bebington Close
• Beech Gardens
• Belvide Gardens
• Bencroft
• Bentley Drive
• Bilbrook Court
• Bilbrook Grove
• Bilbrook Road
• Billars Close
• Birches Avenue
• Birches Park Road
• Birches Road
• Blanefield
• Blythe Gardens
• Borden Close
• Bracken Close
• Bramall Close
• Brereton Close
• Brick Kiln Lane
• Bridgefoot Walk
• Broadway
• Bromley Gardens
• Brookfield Road
• Brook Grove
• Brook Meadows
• Burmarsh Walk
• Bushell Close
• Canford Crescent
• Carter Avenue
• Catisfield Crescent
• Cedar Grove
• Chadwell Gardens
• Chandler Close
• Chapel Lane
• Charters Avenue
• Cherry Orchard
• Cherry Tree Gardens
• Cherry Tree Lane
• Chestnut Close
• Chillington Drive
• Chillington Lane
• Chillington Street
• Church Hill
• Church Lane
• Church Road

Check an address in WV8

Check an address in WV8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WV8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WV8

What does a WV8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WV8 district of the WV (Wolverhampton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Codsall. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 432 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 WV8

• WV93.2 km
• WV63.3 km
• WV105.1 km
• WV35.6 km
• WV76.3 km
• WV16.5 km
• WV27.4 km
• WV47.7 km
• WV118.0 km
• ST199.6 km
• WV139.8 km
• WV1210.2 km
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