List postal areas in the United Kingdom

The British postal system is based on a system of alphanumeric codes: zip codes. Each zip code starts with a prefix of one or two letters. They indicate in theory the geographical location of the main thing sorting office where the mail forwards before being distributed to the private individuals. The only exception to this rule is the postal Area of London which is divided into sectors whose names correspond to the cardinal points.

It is to be stressed that geographical cutting concerning the zip codes does not follow the administrative or historical borders. The postal districts of London cover a surface smaller than the Autorité of Large London and much of places of the Outer London are served by twelve of the assistant postal areas (IN, IG, RM, DA, Br, TN, CR, SM, KT, TW, ha and UB), of which some are entirely included/understood in the Greater London .

The postal counties are not required any more by the Royal Mail, and when a county is mentioned it is ignored if the city and the zip code are written.

Postal areas of the United Kingdom

Dependences of the crown

The Dépendances of the British crown introduced the use of the zip code only at the beginning of the Années 1990.

Territories overseas

Some of the British territories of overseas have postal, valid codes for all the local addresses. They were set up between 2003 and 2005 to avoid errors of routing of the mail, and to help the inhabitants of these territories to make in line trade starting from sites which require a zip code to validate the address.

Disappeared postal areas

In the middle of the XIXe century, the beginnings of a zip code were established. London was divided into 10 zones, like SW and WC, which are always in force. At the beginning of the XXe century, they were partitionnés in districts like SW16, which form the current codes. At the same time, the big cities were divided into postal districts, as Liverpool 6 which became L6.

However several of these zones did not last a long time:

  • London

    • was not abandoned at the XIXe century by amalgamating the zone E with some parts of the other zones. Some streets in the east of London still have the joined suffix there. The postal area was not allotted to the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne thereafter.
    • S was abandoned at the XIXe century by amalgamating zones SE and SW. Réattribué S.A. with Sheffield.

  • Glasgow

    • Glasgow had a particular status among the other British cities because it had geographical districts similar to those of London, because of its statute of Second city of the British Empire (sectors C, W, NW, NR, E, S, SW, SE). When the zip codes were modified to comprise the letter G, C1 became G1, etc Like NW and SE had not been cut out, they became G20 and G50.

  • Dublin

    • Dublin was divided into postal districts by the British offices of station in 1917, at the same time as of other big cities like Liverpool and Manchester. After the creation of the Irish free state, the Irish Republic and the government Irish did not adopt zip codes, however the Irish postal districts remained identical and the correct addresses have the form Dublin 7. The code D was not re-used with the the United Kingdom. The Irish government plans to introduce zip codes before January 1st 2008. One so does not know digital codes numeric or alphanumeric will be used, however the integration of the postal districts of Dublin perhaps will involve the adoption of alphanumeric codes, as it was the case in the United Kingdom with London in the Années 1960.

Fictitious codes

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