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The EC (Eastern Central) postcode area, also known as the London EC postal area, [2] is a group of postcode districts in central London, England. It includes almost all of the City of London and parts of the London boroughs of Islington , Camden , Hackney , Tower Hamlets and Westminster .
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 ...
The WC (Western Central) postcode area, also known as the London WC postcode area, [2] is a group of postcode districts in central London, England. The area covered is of high density development, and includes parts of the City of Westminster and the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington , plus a very small part of the City of London .
A postcode can be validated against a table of all 1.7 million postcodes in Code-Point Open. 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]
Postcode area Postcode districts Post town Former postal county; AB: AB10, AB11, AB12, AB15, AB16, AB21, AB22, AB23, AB24, AB25, AB99 non-geo: Aberdeen (Aberdeenshire ...
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]
The SW (South Western) postcode area, also known as the London SW postcode area, [2] is a group of 20 postcode districts within the London post town in England. The area comprises the South Western operational district (covering the subdivisions of postcode district SW1, plus SW2 - SW10) and the Battersea operational district (covering SW11 - SW20), [3] and is the only area within the London ...
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.