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The BS postcode area, also known as the Bristol postcode area, [2] is a group of 37 postcode districts in South West England, within eight post towns. These cover the city of Bristol , north Somerset (including Weston-super-Mare , Axbridge , Banwell , Cheddar , Clevedon , Wedmore and Winscombe ) and south Gloucestershire .
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 postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode. [1] There are currently 121 geographic postcode areas in use in the UK and a further three often combined with these covering the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man.
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 ]
Postcode area Postcode name Post towns AB: Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Aberlour, Aboyne, Alford (Aberdeenshire), [Note 1] Ballater, Ballindalloch, Banchory, Banff, Buckie ...
Postcode: BS. Area codes: 0117, 01275, 01454: ISO 3166 code: ... After a section of north London, Bristol has England's second-highest number of private school places ...
The neighbourhoods of Bristol do not have fixed boundaries as they are mainly informal areas. Some of these areas overlap, or are contained within others, while others have more than one name. The following areas and towns make up the city of Bristol and its outskirts.
Some London boroughs were split between multiple postal counties: for example Barnet had sections in the London postal district (e.g. Golders Green) and in the Middlesex and Hertfordshire postal counties (e.g. Edgware and East Barnet); with the NW7 postcode district touching the Greater London boundary to divide the three sections.