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This template displays an imagemap of the postcode districts and post towns in the London postal district or one of the 121 United Kingdom postcode areas (AB to ZE, including BT but excluding the non-UK Crown dependencies of GY, IM and JE). The maps used are File:LONDON post town map.svg and File:AB postcode area map.svg to File:ZE postcode ...
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
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 single or pair of letters chosen for postcode areas are generally intended as a mnemonic for the places served. [1] Postcode areas, post towns and postcode districts do not follow political or local authority administrative boundaries and usually serve much larger areas than the place names with which they are associated.
Postcode area boundaries within Great Britain derived from Voronoi polygons of OS Code-Point Open unit postcode median coordinates (with coastline clipping and minor adjustments to avoid spurious detached polygons). National borders and coastline data derived: from OS Strategi for inset maps
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English: Labelled map of Royal Mail postcode districts of the FY postcode area. Indicative postcode districts shown in red, post towns shown in grey. Equirectangular projection with latitude stretching 170%, WGS84 datum. Geographic limits: Main 1:101,000 map: West: 3.083W; East: 2.879W; North: 53.949N; South: 53.709N
Postcode district boundaries within Great Britain derived from Voronoi polygons of OS Code-Point Open unit postcode median coordinates (with coastline clipping and minor adjustments to avoid spurious detached polygons). Great Britain coastline, inland water and urban extent data derived from OS Strategi. Author: Richardguk: SVG development