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Postal Counties Of The United Kingdom
The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. The purpose of the postal county – as opposed to any other kind of county – was to aid the sorting of mail by differentiating between like-sounding post towns. Since 1996 this has been done by using the outward code (first half) of the postcode instead. For operational reasons the former postal counties, although broadly based on the counties of the United Kingdom, did not match up with their boundaries: in some cases there were significant differences. The boundaries changed over time as post towns were created or amended. According to the Royal Mail, the former postal county data no longer forms part of postal addresses. It was removed from the Postcode Address File database in 2000 and does not form part of its code of practice for changing addresses. Despite this, county data is routinely sold to companies, ostensibly to l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post Town
A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system.Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) Including the correct post town in the address increases the chance of a letter or parcel being delivered on time. Post towns in general originated as the location of delivery offices. , their main function is to distinguish between localities or street names in addresses not including a postcode. Organisation There are approximately 1,500 post towns which are organised by Royal Mail subject to its policy only to impose changes where it has a proven, economic and practical benefit to the organisation, covering its own cost. Each post town usually corresponds to one or more postal districts (the 'outward' part of the postcode, before the space) therefore each post town can cover an area comprising many towns, urban districts and villages. Post towns rarely correspond exactly to administrative b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NN Postcode Area
The NN postcode area, also known as the Northampton postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of nineteen postcode districts in England, within eight post towns. These cover most of Northamptonshire (including Northampton, Kettering, Wellingborough, Corby, Brackley, Daventry, Rushden and Towcester), plus very small parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! NN1 , NORTHAMPTON , Northampton , West Northamptonshire , - ! NN2 , NORTHAMPTON , Kingsthorpe, Boughton , West Northamptonshire , - ! NN3 , NORTHAMPTON , Abington (East), Bellinge, Blackthorn, Boothville, Ecton Brook, Great Billing, Headlands, Kingsley Park, Lings, Little Billing, Moulton, Moulton Park, Parklands, Rectory Farm, Round Spinney, Southfields, Spinney Hill, Standens Barn, Thorplands, Weston Favell , West Northamptonshire , - ! NN4 , NORTHAMPTON , Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodcote
Woodcote is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, about southeast of Wallingford and about northwest of Reading, Berkshire. It is in the Chiltern Hills, and the highest part of the village is above sea level. Woodcote lies between the Goring Road and the A4074. It is centred on the village green and Church Farm, with the village hall centred on the crossroads. History Prehistoric artefacts have been found in the area, including a polished hand-axe from about 3000 BC found in the nearby hamlet of Exlade Street and on show in Reading Museum and a 28 cm carved stone head Romano-Celtic, probably 1st–2nd century, with typical protruding eyes, exaggerated lips and flattened nose. The folds of skin on the neck and musculature at the back of the head have been carefully detailed. It is of white oolite limestone, and was found at Wayside Green, Woodcote, and is now in Reading Museum (Ref 401-78). The toponym Woodcote means "cottage in the wood".Lobel, 1962, pages 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CM Postcode Area
The CM postcode area, also known as the Chelmsford postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 25 postcode districts in England, within 16 post towns. These cover central Essex (including Chelmsford, Harlow, Brentwood, Billericay, Braintree, Burnham-on-Crouch, Dunmow, Epping, Ingatestone, Maldon, Ongar, Southminster, Stansted and Witham), plus a small part of east Hertfordshire (including Bishop's Stortford and Sawbridgeworth) and a very small part of the London Borough of Havering. The southern part of the CM7 district for Braintree was recoded to CM77 in 2002. __TOC__ Coverage The Stansted post town (CM24) is entirely surrounded by the Bishop's Stortford post town (CM22 and CM23). The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! rowspan="2", CM0 , SOUTHMINSTER , Southminster, Bradwell, Tillingham, Asheldham, Dengie , rowspan="2", Maldon , - , BURNHAM-ON-CROUCH , Burnham-on-Crouch, Tillingham , - ! CM1 , CHELMSFORD , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molehill Green
Molehill Green is a hamlet in Takeley parish in Essex, England, close to the perimeter of London Stansted Airport, The hamlet consists of approximately forty houses and lies about north of Takeley village. It has one pub called ''The Three Horseshoes'', a small village hall, a shop and a cricket club. Most of the houses are named rather than numbered, and it has only one named street, School Lane. The hamlet was originally called Morrells Green, which is now the name of a small housing estate in Takeley. The River Roding rises from a spring close to the cricket club. Molehill Green is geographically in Essex but its former postal county is Hertfordshire. Nearby are the hamlets of Chapel End, Broxted Broxted is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. It is situated north-east from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and north-west from the county town of Chelmsford. The parish includes the ham ..., Bamber's Green and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugley
Ugley is a small village and civil parish in the non-metropolitan district of Uttlesford in Essex, England. It is about north from Stansted Mountfitchet, and situated between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford. Within the parish is the village of Ugley Green, to the south. Ugley was first recorded in 1041 as "Uggele". It appears in the ''Domesday Book'' as "Ugghelea". The name probably means "woodland clearing of a man named Ugga." Within Ugley there are several buildings of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Grade II* listed church, St Peter's, has a 13th-century nave and a Tudor brick tower. Orford House is a Grade II* listed building built by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, c.1700. The village's name has been noted on lists of unusual place names. Cycling There is a cycling time trial course which starts close to Ugley. The village is home to several bungalows or "huts" owned by long-established cycling clubs based in Essex and Greater London.Rouler.cc, https:/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TN Postcode Area
The TN postcode area, also known as the Tunbridge Wells postcode area, is a group of 40 postcode districts in England, within 24 post towns. These cover south Kent (including Royal Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Ashford, Sevenoaks, Cranbrook, Edenbridge, New Romney, Romney Marsh and Tenterden) and northern and eastern East Sussex (including Hastings, Battle, Bexhill-on-Sea, Crowborough, Etchingham, Hartfield, Heathfield, Mayfield, Robertsbridge, Rye, St Leonards-on-Sea, Uckfield, Wadhurst and Winchelsea), plus very small parts of Surrey and the London Borough of Bromley. Mail for this area is sorted at the Royal Mail Sorting Office in Rochester, which also sorts all mail from the adjoining ME postcode area. __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! TN1 , TUNBRIDGE WELLS , Tunbridge Wells (town centre) , Tunbridge WellsLocal authority data obtained froOS OpenDataCode-Point Open. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsfield
Tatsfield is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. It is located 3.3 miles north west of Westerham and 3.9 miles north east of Oxted, and is adjacent to the Surrey border with both Greater London and Kent. Geography The village itself is on the North Downs with its centre near its highest point, at an altitude of around north of the ridge of the North Downs where the North Downs Way passes through the parish. The 'village' area is in a small salient of Surrey into the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London (to the west, north and east). Biggin Hill is immediately to the north. The boundary with Kent is less than mile to the east. Tatsfield is covered by the Westerham post town, meaning Tatsfield's postal county was Kent. Since 1996, the postal county has not been required in postal addresses. Etymology The origin of the village name is uncertain. The English Place Name Society suggests it is derived from 'a field or open land belonging t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NG Postcode Area
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Shirebrook
Shirebrook is a town in the Bolsover district in Derbyshire, England. Close to the boundaries with the districts of Mansfield and Bassetlaw of Nottinghamshire,OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): it had a population of 13,300 in 2001, reducing to 9,760 at the 2011 Census. It is on the B6407, and close to the A632 road, between Mansfield and Bolsover. The town is served by Shirebrook railway station, on the Robin Hood Line. Economy History According to David Mills in ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names'', the area was first named in records in 1202 written in Old English as Scirebroc. This can be interpreted as Boundary or Bright Brook. Prior to the intense and swift development of the Colliery at the turn of the 20th century, Shirebrook, even as late as 1872 it was little more than a chapelry of the larger Pleasley. Wilsons' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870–72 describes "SHIREBROOK, a chapelry in Pleaseley parish, Derby; 3¾ miles NNW of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LU Postcode Area
The LU postcode area, also known as the Luton postcode area, is a group of seven postcode districts in England, within three post towns. These cover south Bedfordshire (including Luton, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard), plus small parts of north Hertfordshire and east Buckinghamshire. __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:Placenames as listed in Royal Mail, ''Postal Address Book: Anglia 2'', Edition H, 2003. , - ! LU1 , LUTON , Luton (South), Aley Green, Caddington, Lower Woodside, Pepperstock, Slip End, Woodside , Luton, Central Bedfordshire , - ! LU2 , LUTON , Luton (East), Chiltern Green, Cockernhoe, East Hyde, Lawrence End, Lilley, New Mill End, Peters Green, Tea Green, The Hyde, Wandon End, Wandon Green, Winch Hill, London Luton Airport , Luton, Central Bedfordshire, North Hertfordshire , - ! LU3 , LUTON , Luton (North), Lower Sundon, Streatley, Sundon , Luton, Central Bedfordshire , - ! LU4 , LUTON , Luton (West), Chalt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitstone
Pitstone (formerly Pightelsthorn, with possible variation Pychelesthorn in 1399) is a village and civil parish in east Buckinghamshire, England. It is at the foot of the central range of the Chiltern Hills, centred east of Aylesbury and south of Leighton Buzzard. It directly adjoins the village of Ivinghoe, and the two villages share some facilities. History The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means 'Picel's thorn tree'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Pincelestorne''. Pitstone was given to the abbey at Ashridge by the Earl of Cornwall in 1283. In 1290 King Edward I spent Christmas in Pitstone at the estate that had been given to the abbey, and stayed for five weeks, during which time he held parliament in Ashridge. His stay caused great inconvenience to the local inhabitants of the village who were legally obliged to keep the king and his court. It was described in a Victorian gazetteer by John Marius Wilson as "7 miles in length and 1 in b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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