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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 Down Arts Centre, located in the former Downpatrick Town Hall Inch Abbey Quoile Castle, near Downpatrick Steam locomotive O&K No. 1 operating at the Downpatrick and County Down Railway Ballyalton Court Cairn is a single court grave situated on a rock outcrop by the roadside 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from Ballyalton village, which is 2.25 miles (3 ...
Postcode area Postcode name Post towns AB: Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Aberlour, Aboyne, Alford (Aberdeenshire), [Note 1] Ballater, Ballindalloch, Banchory, Banff, Buckie ...
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. Many post towns ...
Annadorn (from Irish Áth na nDorn 'ford of the fists/pebbles') [1] is a rural townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.It has an area of 644.94 acres (2.61 km 2).It is situated in the civil parish of Loughinisland and the historic barony of Kinelarty, located 3 miles west of Downpatrick.
Downpatrick forms part of the South Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Down Area B which had existed since 1973, where it contained seven wards (Ardglass, Audleys Acre, Cathedral, Flying Horse, Killough, Quoile and Strangford).
Crossgar is on the main A7 road, 5 miles (8 km) north of Downpatrick and 16 miles (26 km) south of Belfast, and on the B7 minor road between Ballynahinch and Killyleagh. The village is served by Ulsterbus route 15 and 215 Downpatrick to Belfast. Crossgar railway station opened on 23 March 1859, but finally closed on 16 January 1950. [5]
Ballykinler (Irish: Baile Coinnleora), [1] often transcribed as Ballykinlar, is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.It lies 12 kilometres south west of Downpatrick, in the parish of Tyrella and Dundrum.