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The BF postcode area was introduced in 2012 to provide optional postcodes for British Forces Post Office addresses, for consistency with the layout of other UK addresses. It uses the national non-geographic post town "BFPO" and, as of 2012, the postcode district "BF1". Each BFPO number is assigned an inward code, which are grouped as: 0 ...
A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area. All, or part, of one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. [1] Until 1996, Royal Mail required counties to be included in addresses, except for 110 of the larger post towns. For these "special post towns", the former postal county is ...
The ONSPD uses the Government Statistical Service (GSS) standard 9-character codes throughout and lookup files linking these codes to statutory area names are provided. [2] Each record in the ONSPD contains the following fields: Unit postcode – 7 character version; Unit postcode – 8 character version; Unit postcode – variable length version
Postcode area Postcode name Post towns AB: Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Aberlour, Aboyne, Alford (Aberdeenshire), [Note 1] Ballater, Ballindalloch, Banchory, Banff, Buckie ...
A full postcode is known as a "postcode unit" and designates an area with several addresses or a single major delivery point. [1] The structure of a postcode is two alphanumeric codes that show, first, the post town and, second, a small group of addresses in that post town.
For the purposes of directing mail, the United Kingdom (although the populations listed just show figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland), is divided by Royal Mail into postcode areas. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode . [ 1 ]
Main map limits and coastline taken from File:United Kingdom location map.svg. Label sizes refined. Colour-scheme amended for greater similarity with UK location maps. SVG out: 16:19, 25 November 2011: 498 × 986 (368 KB) Richardguk
English: Labelled map of Royal Mail postcode districts of the PO postcode area. Indicative postcode districts shown in red, post towns shown in grey. Equirectangular projection with latitude stretching 160%, WGS84 datum. Geographic limits: Main 1:272,000 map: West: 1.593W; East: 0.569W; North: 51.001N; South: 50.553N