Wales address format & examples

If you love castles, Wales is the place to be. Despite spanning a mere 22k square kilometers, Wales once housed over 600 castles, around 100 of which are still standing. You could visit the four 21-meter towers of Conwy Castle, which was constructed in 1283 to lodge King Edward I, or cross over a moat and drawbridge to explore 900-year-old Pembroke Castle.

Whether you’re inspecting ruins or hunting for the sword in the stone, you’ll probably make some ffrindiau (friends) along the way. If you want to wish them a happy Saint David’s Day—an annual celebration of Welsh culture—you’ll want to learn how to write a letter to Wales. 

To perfect your understanding of Welsh addresses, scroll on to our Wales address examples. With Smarty’s suite of address validation tools for Wales, you’ll be an expert on Welsh addresses before you know it.

Here’s how to write Wales’s address correctly:

1. Addressee line - The recipient's full name, using the appropriate titles for the area.
2. (tooltip: premise and thoroughfare) Building number and street name - The building number or name, preceded by the street the address is on, without separating punctuation.
3. (tooltip: dependent locality) Neighborhood or area - The general area the address falls within.
4. (tooltip: locality) City - The city or town the address falls within.
5. (tooltip: postal code) Postcode - The 5 to 7-digit postal code
6. Country - Finally, the country code of GBR.