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Modern postcodes are 50 years old. 2 October 09 23:02 GMT. The UK's country-wide postcode system, introduced to speed up mail deliveries but now used for a range of applications, is half a century old. The whole of the UK was divided into postal districts for the first time after a trial run in Norwich in 1959. Royal Mail says the UK has more than 1.7 million postcodes, covering about 28.

Recently several users of Postcodes Australia have told us that it would be useful to be able to view all postcodes in a state on the same page. As a result we've put the following together. Please note: The data these lists contain was current in 2006 - there will have been additions and boundary changes in the meantime which are not reflected here. Show postcodes in: ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS.

Postcode Directory for London. Office for National Statistics (ONS) Data Created 5 years ago, updated 12 days ago. This file contains the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) for London. The ONSPD relates both current and terminated postcodes in the United Kingdom to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral (eg Wards), health and other area geographies. It also links postcodes to pre.

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It might be you've got an old postcode that has been removed from the data. Check the postcode on the Royal Mail website to see if it's still in use. Alternatively, your postcode may be newer than the ONS data, which is only updated every three months. Some postcodes have the same latitude and longitude, why is that? Generally this will be because the postcodes are non-geographical postcodes.

Postcodes are the UK equivalent of USA zip codes. They are the most important part of any address when sending postal mail. Whereas street names are in no way unique to any one area, full extended postcodes are all unique and together with the house number they will uniquely identify an individual address. For example one of the best known addresses in London is the Prime Ministers residence.

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The history of London Postcodes. Map of the London postal district in 1857 (Photo credit: Wikipedia. Our current postcodes have their origins in the Victorian era. London was getting so big and there were quite a few common street names to confuse the unwary, so London was split up into 8 wedges each with a letter corresponding to a point of the compass and going out about 12 miles, so.