The CO postcode area, also known as the Colchester postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of sixteen postcode districts in the

east of England The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. This region was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics purposes from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire ...

, within nine post towns. These cover northeast Essex (including Colchester, Bures, Clacton-on-Sea,

Frinton-on-Sea Frinton-on-Sea is a seaside town and (as just Frinton) a former civil parish, now in the parish of Frinton and Walton, in the Tendring district of Essex, England. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 4,837. In 1931 the parish had a populati ...

, Halstead,

Harwich Harwich is a town in Essex, England, and one of the Haven ports on the North Sea coast. It is in the Tendring district. Nearby places include Felixstowe to the north-east, Ipswich to the north-west, Colchester to the south-west and Clacton-on- ...

, Manningtree and Walton-on-the-Naze) and a small part of south

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

(including

Sudbury Sudbury may refer to: Places Australia * Sudbury Reef, Queensland Canada * Greater Sudbury, Ontario (official name; the city continues to be known simply as Sudbury for most purposes) ** Sudbury (electoral district), one of the city's federal e ...

). The main

sorting office A sorting office or processing and distribution center (P&DC; name used by the United States Postal Service (USPS)) is any location where postal operators bring mail after collection for sorting into batches for delivery to the addressee, which ...

is in Colchester. __TOC__

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The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! CO1 , COLCHESTER , Colchester , Colchester , - ! CO2 , COLCHESTER ,

Old Heath Old Heath is a parish that is south-east of Colchester, Essex, England. Old Heath has existed since Saxon times and was originally called 'Old Hythe' because it was the first port of Colchester, before Hythe (called Newehethe in 1311) took over: ...

Berechurch Berechurch is an area of Colchester and former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Colchester, in the Colchester district, in the county of Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffo ...

Layer de la Haye Layer de la Haye (often spelled Layer-de-la-Haye; locally known just as Layer) is a small village of around 2,000 people, measured at 1,767 in the 2011 Census, near Colchester in Essex, England. History The village is thought to have been fou ...

, Colchester , - ! CO3 , COLCHESTER , Lexden, Stanway , Colchester , - ! CO4 , COLCHESTER , Greenstead, Highwoods, St Johns,

Myland Myland (also called Mile End) is a civil parish in Essex, England. It is now a northern suburb of Colchester. The original village began approximately one mile north of the centre of Colchester which probably accounts for its name. This has var ...

, Boxted, Braiswick , Colchester , - ! CO5 , COLCHESTER , Tiptree, Kelvedon, West Mersea,

Peldon Peldon is a village and civil parish in the Colchester borough of Essex, England. With Salcott, Virley, Great Wigborough and Little Wigborough, it forms part of the Winstred Hundred parish council. Nearby villages include Langenhoe. The pari ...

Rowhedge Rowhedge is a village in the Colchester borough of Essex, England. It is located just over south-east of Colchester town centre and is part of the civil parish of East Donyland. Geography Rowhedge is on the right (west) bank of the tidal Ri ...

, Colchester, Braintree,

Maldon Maldon (, locally ) is a town and civil parish on the River Blackwater, Essex, Blackwater estuary in Essex, England. It is the seat of the Maldon District and starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation. It is known for Maldon Sea ...

, - ! CO6 , COLCHESTER , Coggeshall,

Earls Colne Earls Colne is a village in Essex, England named after the River Colne, on which it stands, and the Earls of Oxford who held the manor of Earls Colne from before 1086 to 1703. History Manor of Earls Colne In the time of Edward the Confesso ...

, Marks Tey, Great Tey, Chappel, White Colne,

Wakes Colne Wakes Colne is a village in Essex, England which sits on the River Colne. It is situated next to the village of Chappel, with which it shares Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station. Location Wakes Colne is a scattered village on the north ...

, Copford,

West Bergholt West Bergholt, formerly known as Bergholt Sackville, is a large rural village and civil parish in Essex, England, lying near the border with Suffolk, close to the ancient town of Colchester. With a history going back to medieval times the villa ...

Great Horkesley Great Horkesley is a village approximately 3 miles north of Colchester in the county of Essex, UK, and is part of the borough of Colchester. Horkesley is located in what is known as "Horkesley Heath", which is a combination of two villages: Gr ...

Wormingford Wormingford is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. The ancient parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the River Stour, north- west of Colchester and south-east of Sudbury, Suffolk, covered 2,322 acres (929 hectares). The Stour fo ...

, Nayland,

Stoke-by-Nayland Stoke-by-Nayland is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England, close to the border with Essex. The parish includes the village of Withermarsh Green and the hamlets of Thorington Street and Scotland S ...

, Polstead , Colchester, Braintree,

Babergh Babergh may refer to the following places in England: * Babergh Hundred, a defunct hundred of the county of Suffolk, named for a "mound of a man called Babba" * Babergh District Babergh District (pronounced , ) is a local government district in ...

, - ! CO7 , COLCHESTER , Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe, Great Bentley, Alresford , Colchester, Tendring, Babergh , - ! CO8 , BURES , Bures, Alphamstone , Colchester, Braintree, Babergh , - ! CO9 , HALSTEAD , Halstead , Braintree , - ! CO10 , SUDBURY ,

, Babergh,

West Suffolk West Suffolk may refer to the following places in Suffolk, England: * West Suffolk (county), a county until 1974 * West Suffolk District, a local government district established in 2019 * West Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency), an electoral dist ...

, Braintree , - ! CO11 , MANNINGTREE , Manningtree, Lawford,

Mistley Mistley is a large village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England. It is around 11 miles northeast of Colchester and is east of, and almost contiguous with, Manningtree. The parish consists of Mistley and New Mist ...

, Bradfield,

Wrabness Wrabness is a small village and civil parish near Manningtree, Essex, England. The village is located six miles (10 km) west of Harwich. Wrabness railway station is served by trains on the Mayflower Line. Wrabness had a population of appr ...

Wix Wix may refer to: Computing * WiX (Windows Installer XML Toolset), a software toolset * Wix.com, an Israeli software company providing cloud-based web development services Places * Wix, Essex, United Kingdom * Vicques, Switzerland, formerly O ...

Horsley Cross Horsley Cross is a hamlet in the English county of Essex. Horsley Cross lies on the B1035 road just to the north of the main A120 that connects London and Harwich and to the south of Horsleycross Street. The population of the hamlet is inclu ...

Little Bromley Little Bromley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. The name "Bromley" is Old English for "broomy wood/clearing". The village lies east northeast of Colchester and south of Manningtree. It is surrounded b ...

, Brantham, Cattawade , Tendring, Babergh , - ! CO12 , HARWICH ,

, Dovercourt, Parkeston, Ramsey, Little Oakley, Great Oakley, Stones Green , Tendring , - ! CO13 , FRINTON-ON-SEA ,

, Tendring , - ! CO14 , WALTON ON THE NAZEThe post town is unhyphenated. , Walton-on-the-Naze , Tendring , - ! CO15 , CLACTON-ON-SEA , Clacton-on-Sea, Jaywick , Tendring , - ! CO16 , CLACTON-ON-SEA , Clacton-on-Sea,

St Osyth St Osyth is an English village and civil parish in the Tendring District of north-east Essex, about west of Clacton-on-Sea and south-east of Colchester. It lies on the B1027, Colchester–Clacton road. The village is named after Osgyth, a 7t ...

, Little Clacton , Tendring

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External links

Royal Mail's Postcode Address FileA quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)
{{Postcode areas in the United Kingdom Postcode areas covering the East of England Borough of Colchester

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