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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 3 often combined with these covering the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man. [2]
The county has formed the upper tier of local government over much of the United Kingdom at one time or another, [1] and has been used for a variety of other purposes, such as for Lord Lieutenants, land registration and postal delivery. This list of 184 counties is split by constituent country, time period and purpose.
The Local Government Act 1972 redrew the administrative county map of England and Wales outside Greater London. The Post Office was considering its policy in January 1973, [ 17 ] and in November 1973 noted that "Greater Manchester" would be unlikely to be adopted because of confusion of the Manchester post town , but that Avon was likely to be ...
The official name, from 1974, of the "CLEVELAND" (TS postcode was formed from "TeeS" or "Tees-Side") postal county refers to a larger area including the non-metropolitan county and to the moors. [3] Cleveland is a common place name in the US and Canada, but relatively few of these places are named directly after this region in England.
Category: Events in England by county. 4 languages. ... Festivals in England by county (43 C) B. Events in Berkshire (2 C, 3 P) Events in Bristol (2 C, 1 P) C.
The games grew from events held at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire for British World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries. The Memorial Mob, a Bucks-based group which creates Memorials to Lost & Forgotten events of the Armed & Emergency Services, felt it was appropriate to honour Buckinghamshire.
Washington is a town in the Sunderland district, in Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham, it is the ancestral settlement of the local Washington family, from which the first President of the United States George Washington descended. It has a population of 67,085.