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Address Management Guide (6th ed.). "Royal Mail major recode historical information – 2000 to September 2011" (PDF). Royal Mail. 3 November 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2017
Postal counties of the United Kingdom. The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, [ 1] were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. [ 2] The purpose of the postal county – as opposed to any other kind of county – was to aid the sorting of mail by differentiating between like ...
The full delivery address including postcode can be validated against the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF), which lists 29 million valid delivery addresses, [25] constituting most (but not all) addresses in the UK. [26] A regular expression for validating UK postcodes is specified in the British Standards document BS 7666. [27]
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".
Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies. 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]
The ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) relates both current and terminated postcodes in the United Kingdom to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other area geographies. It also links postcodes to pre-2002 health areas, 1991 Census enumeration districts for England and Wales, 2001 Census Output Areas (OA) and Super ...
The TN postcode area, also known as the Tunbridge Wells postcode area, [2] is a group of 40 postcode districts in England, within 24 post towns.These cover south and west Kent (including Royal Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Ashford, Sevenoaks, Westerham, Cranbrook, Edenbridge, New Romney, Romney Marsh and Tenterden) and northern and eastern East Sussex (including Hastings, Battle, Bexhill-on-Sea ...
The TS postcode area, also known as the Cleveland postcode area, [2] is a group of 29 postcode districts in northern England for ten post towns. These cover north-east North Yorkshire (post towns Middlesbrough, Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough and Yarm) and south-east County Durham (post towns Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool, Billingham, Wingate and Trimdon Station).