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This is a list of postcode areas, used by Royal Mail for the purposes of directing mail within the United Kingdom. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode . [ 1 ]
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]
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 ]
Royal Mail (1999). Address Management Guide (6th ed.). "Royal Mail major recode historical information – 2000 to September 2011" (PDF). Royal Mail. 3 November 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2017
The full delivery address including postcode can be validated against the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF), which lists 29 million valid delivery addresses, [27] constituting most (but not all) addresses in the UK. [28] A regular expression for validating UK postcodes is specified in the British Standards document BS 7666. [29]
Clipped postcode area strokes to GB mainland (requires non-rectangular clip-path renderer); added dashed strokes to clarify nearby offshore postcode area boundaries (France–GY, France–JE, GY–JE, HS–IV, IV–PH, KA–PA, PA–PH); font-family="'Lib
This template displays an imagemap of the 121 postcode areas in the United Kingdom and the 3 postcode areas in the Crown dependencies (GY, IM and JE). The map used is File:British postcode areas map.svg. The template overlays the map with polygons corresponding to the postcode areas (including the areas shown at larger scale on the London and ...
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 ...