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The CR postcode area, also known as the Croydon postcode area, [2] is a group of eight postcode districts in England, within ten post towns. These cover parts of southern Greater London and north-east Surrey .
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.
This is a list of post towns in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies, sorted by the postcode area ... Croydon: Caterham, Coulsdon, Croydon, Kenley, ...
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: ... Postcode district(s) Dialling code ... CROYDON: CR0: 020: Addiscombe: Croydon [7] CROYDON ...
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]
On 1 May 1967 postcodes were introduced in Croydon. The many postcodes for central Croydon began with "CRO", while those of the surrounding post towns with CR2, CR3 and CR4. The uniform system of a set of three final characters after the space (such as 0AA, known as the inward code) was adopted.
For the purposes of directing mail, the United Kingdom (although the populations listed just show figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland), is divided by Royal Mail into postcode areas. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode . [ 1 ]
Croydon Amphibians SC plays in the Division 2 British Water Polo League. The team won the National League Division 2 in 2008. [146] Croydon has over 120 parks and open spaces, [147] ranging from the 200-acre (0.81 km 2) Selsdon Wood Nature Reserve to many recreation grounds and