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Sorrento is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia in the local government area of the City of Joondalup. At its northwestern corner is the Hillarys Boat Harbour , built in the late 1980s.
It is the source of all addresses in the Eircode ECAD database. It is also used by Google Maps in Ireland to identify and search for building names on mapping. [75] For example, one of the entries in its sample database [76] is Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, building ID 10003105 (at ITM 648555.822, 698833.088).
The main post town of Perth and its surrounding villages are covered in PH1 (north and west) and PH2 (east and south). PH3 to PH7 cover the Strathearn area to the west and south-west of Perth. PH8 to PH10 and PH15 to PH18 cover highland areas to the north and north-west.
There are currently 139 routing key areas in the country. This table does not include the second part of Ireland's seven-character Eircodes, known as the "unique identifier". These are unique to individual addresses and are not street-level identifiers, as is the case in other countries. There are currently 2.2 million of these codes. [2]
The postal district system was introduced in 1917 by the British government, as a practical way to organise local postal distribution. [4] This followed the example of other cities, including London, first subdivided into ten districts in 1857, [ 5 ] and Liverpool , the first city in Britain or Ireland to have postcodes, from 1864.
There are more than 350 [citation needed] suburbs in the Perth metropolitan region (colloquially known as Perth, the capital city of Western Australia) as of 2021. The name and boundary of a locality (commonly referred to as a suburb in the metropolitan region [according to whom?]) is determined under the authority of the Minister of Lands in Western Australia, and form an official component ...
Padbury is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Joondalup. Its postcode is 6025. The suburb was named in 1971 after the notable Western Australian settler Walter Padbury. (A street in Padbury is also named after Walter Padbury, Walter Padbury Boulevard.)
A townsite was gazetted in the area in 1940, [3] but it remained largely undeveloped until the late 1950s, when the postal district of Marmion was approved. At first, the only development in the area was the primary school, opened in 1956 as a two-teacher school and nicknamed "The Little School in the Bush", accessible only by a track until the ...