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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Postcode area within the United Kingdom}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}<br />
{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}<br />
{{Infobox UK postcode area|area_code=WF}}<br />
The '''WF postcode area''', also known as the '''Wakefield postcode area''',<ref>Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)</ref> is a group of 17 postcode districts in north-east England, which are subdivisions of eleven [[post town]]s. These cover much of southern and eastern [[West Yorkshire]] (including [[Wakefield]], [[Pontefract]], [[Dewsbury]], [[Batley]], [[Castleford]], [[Heckmondwike]], [[Knottingley]], [[Liversedge]], [[Mirfield]], [[Normanton, West Yorkshire|Normanton]] and [[Ossett]]), plus small parts of [[South Yorkshire|South]] and [[North Yorkshire]].<br />
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==Coverage==<br />
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:<br />
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|-<br />
! WF1<br />
| WAKEFIELD<br />
| [[Agbrigg]], Belle Vue, [[Eastmoor]], Kirkthorpe, Newton Hill, [[Outwood, West Yorkshire|Outwood]], [[Wakefield|Wakefield City Centre]]<br />
| [[City of Wakefield|Wakefield]]<br />
|-<br />
! WF2<br />
| WAKEFIELD<br />
| [[Alverthorpe]], Carr Gate, Flanshaw, Hall Green, [[Kirkhamgate]], [[Kettlethorpe, West Yorkshire|Kettlethorpe]], Lupset, [[Newmillerdam]], Portobello, [[Sandal Magna|Sandal]], Thornes, [[Walton, Wakefield|Walton (Wakefield)]], [[Wrenthorpe]], Woolgreaves, Peacock, Pledwick<br />
| Wakefield<br />
|-<br />
! WF3<br />
| WAKEFIELD<br />
| [[Bottom Boat]], [[Carlton, Rothwell|Carlton]], [[East Ardsley]], [[Lofthouse, West Yorkshire|Lofthouse]], Lofthouse Gate, [[Robin Hood, West Yorkshire|Robin Hood]], [[Stanley, West Yorkshire|Stanley]], [[Thorpe on the Hill, West Yorkshire|Thorpe]], [[Tingley]], [[West Ardsley]]<br />
| [[City of Leeds|Leeds]], Wakefield<br />
|-<br />
! WF4<br />
| WAKEFIELD<br />
| [[Crigglestone]], [[Crofton, West Yorkshire|Crofton]], [[Durkar]], [[Flockton]], [[Havercroft]], [[Horbury]], [[Middlestown]]. [[Netherton, Wakefield|Netherton]], New Crofton, [[Notton]], [[Ryhill]], [[West Bretton]], [[Wintersett]], [[Woolley, West Yorkshire|Woolley]] <br />
| Wakefield, [[Kirklees]]<br />
|-<br />
! WF5<br />
| OSSETT<br />
| [[Gawthorpe, Wakefield|Gawthorpe]], [[Healey, Ossett|Healey]], [[Ossett]] (very small area around Wakefield Road falls in the Kirklees district)<br />
| Wakefield, Kirklees<br />
|-<br />
! WF6<br />
| NORMANTON<br />
| [[Altofts]], [[Normanton, West Yorkshire|Normanton]]<br />
| Wakefield<br />
|-<br />
! WF7<br />
| PONTEFRACT<br />
| [[Ackworth, West Yorkshire|Ackworth Moor Top]], [[Ackton]], [[Featherstone]], [[Purston Jaglin]], [[Streethouse]]<br />
| Wakefield<br />
|-<br />
! WF8<br />
| PONTEFRACT<br />
| [[Darrington, West Yorkshire|Darrington]], [[Kirk Smeaton]], [[Little Smeaton, Selby|Little Smeaton]], [[Pontefract]] (Monkhill), [[Thorpe Audlin]] <br />
| Wakefield, [[North Yorkshire (district)|North Yorkshire]], [[City of Doncaster|Doncaster]]<br />
|-<br />
! WF9<br />
| PONTEFRACT<br />
| [[Badsworth]], [[Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire|Fitzwilliam]], [[Hemsworth]], [[Kinsley, West Yorkshire|Kinsley]], [[South Elmsall]], [[South Kirkby]], [[Upton, West Yorkshire|Upton]], [[Wentbridge]]<br />
| Wakefield, Doncaster<br />
|-<br />
! WF10<br />
| CASTLEFORD<br />
| Airedale, [[Allerton Bywater]], [[Castleford]], [[Glasshoughton]], [[Ledston]], [[New Fryston]]<br />
| Wakefield, Leeds<br />
|-<br />
! WF11<br />
| KNOTTINGLEY<br />
| [[Brotherton]], [[Byram, North Yorkshire|Byram]], [[Cridling Stubbs]], [[Fairburn, North Yorkshire|Fairburn]], Kellingley, [[Knottingley]] <br />
| Wakefield, North Yorkshire <br />
|-<br />
! WF12<br />
| DEWSBURY<br />
| [[Briestfield]], [[Chickenley]], [[Dewsbury]], [[Savile Town]], Shaw Cross, [[Thornhill, West Yorkshire|Thornhill]], [[Thornhill Lees]], [[Whitley Lower]]<br />
| Kirklees, Wakefield<br />
|-<br />
! WF13<br />
| DEWSBURY<br />
| [[Dewsbury Moor]], [[Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury|Ravensthorpe]], [[Staincliffe]]<br />
| Kirklees<br />
|-<br />
! WF14<br />
| MIRFIELD<br />
| [[Battyeford]], Hopton, [[Mirfield]]<br />
| Kirklees<br />
|-<br />
! WF15<br />
| LIVERSEDGE<br />
| [[Hartshead]], [[Hightown, West Yorkshire|Hightown]], [[Roberttown]], [[Liversedge]]<br />
| Kirklees<br />
|-<br />
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! WF16<br />
| HECKMONDWIKE<br />
| [[Heckmondwike]]<br />
| Kirklees<br />
|-<br />
! WF17<br />
| BATLEY<br />
| [[Birstall, West Yorkshire|Birstall]], [[Batley]], [[Hanging Heaton]], [[Soothill]], [[Staincliffe]]<br />
| Kirklees<br />
|-<br />
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|WF90<br />
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|WAKEFIELD<br />
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''[[La Redoute]]''<br />
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''<ref name="nongeo1207">{{Cite web |url=http://www.poweredbypaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12July_current_non-geos-original.pdf |format=PDF |title=Non Geographic Codes |publisher=Royal Mail Address Management Unit |date=July 2012 |access-date=20 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916141140/http://www.poweredbypaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12July_current_non-geos-original.pdf |archive-date=16 September 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
|}<br />
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==Map==<br />
{{Attached KML|display=inline}}<br />
{{Postcode area imagemap|map=WF postcode area|size=550x330px}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Postcode Address File]]<br />
*[[List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.poweredbypaf.com/ Royal Mail's Postcode Address File]<br />
*[http://www.poweredbypaf.com/how-the-royal-mail-postcode-address-file-paf-helps-organisations-verify-their-customers-identities/ A quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)]<br />
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{{Postcode areas in the United Kingdom}}<br />
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[[Category:City of Wakefield]]<br />
[[Category:Postcode areas covering Yorkshire and the Humber]]</div>
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