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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 .
List of London postcode districts. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In ...
The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km 2) to which mail addressed to the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units, with the early ...
For example, within the PA postcode area the PA1 and PA78 postcode districts are 140 miles (225 km) apart, and cover 5 local authority areas; and the eight postcode areas of the London post town cover only 40% of Greater London. [2]
As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities. Mark Twain described London in 1896 as "fifty villages massed solidly together over a vast stretch of territory". [ 2 ]
As London is one post town, district names are deprecated, in favour of the post town LONDON to be written/typed. [ 2 ] Within each NW postcode district, PO boxes are allocated to a unique postcode sector, except for two districts which use all available sectors for ordinary addresses and therefore have their separate non-geographic districts ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... This is a list of post towns in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies, ... East London: London [Note 15] EC:
alphabetical order of district sub-offices, which is used only in London postcode areas (e.g. E2 is Bethnal Green, E3 is Bow, E4 is Chingford etc.) clusters particularly if the postcode area encompasses several major towns or cities (e.g. S postcode area with Sheffield S1-S36, Chesterfield S40-S49, Rotherham S60-S65, Barnsley S70-S75 and ...