Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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DN

The postcode area DN is based on Doncaster and covers that part of South Yorkshire (the DONCASTER post town itself including parts of rural Nottinghamshire), the northern part of Lincolnshire to the Humber estuary, plus Retford in Nottinghamshire and Gainsborough in Lincolnshire.

At Local Government reorganisation in 1974, the new county of Humberside was treated by the Royal Mail as two counties, North Humberside and South Humberside. The post town GOOLE comes under North Humberside despite being south of the river, being originally in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

It will be noticed that there is no DN13 – the proposed DN13 district in the event became S64.

NB Royal Mail ceased the requirement for county names on addresses in 1996 and these were not updated after local government reorganisation of the following year. Therefore, N. and S. Humberside remain correct county names, although this is somewhat controversial and discussed in a little more detail in the HU album.

DN1-12 – postal address DONCASTER, S. Yorkshire




DN14 – postal address GOOLE, N. Humberside
DN15-17 – postal address SCUNTHORPE, S. Humberside
DN18 – postal address BARTON-UPON-HUMBER, S. Humberside


DN19 – postal address BARROW-UPON-HUMBER, S. Humberside
DN20 – postal address BRIGG, S. Humberside
DN21 – postal address GAINSBOROUGH, Lincs.
DN22 – postal address RETFORD, Notts.


DN31-34 – postal address GRIMSBY, S. Humberside
DN35 – postal address CLEETHORPES, S. Humberside


DN36-37 – postal address GRIMSBY, S. Humberside again
DN38 – postal address BARNETBY, S. Humberside
DN39 – postal address ULCEBY, S. Humberside
DN40 – postal address IMMINGHAM, S. Humberside (separated from GRIMSBY in January 1997)
DN41 – postal address GRIMSBY, S. Humberside (was HABROUGH, S. Humberside, part of DN37 until January 1997)

DT

The area DT covers the western two thirds of Dorset, based on Dorchester. Part of the SHERBORNE post town extends across the border into Somerset, and of LYME REGIS into Devon. It has a classic numbering system, straightforwardly upwards from DT1, emanating from Dorchester itself and then spiralling round from the south to the northeast.

The DORCHESTER and WEYMOUTH post towns, which each have two postcode districts, demonstrate two methods of splitting the post towns into districts – in Dorchester, DT1 covers the town centre with the DT2 district a hollow ring shape surrounding the town rurally; whereas in Weymouth, DT3 covers the northern parts, with DT4 covering the town centre and south.

DT1-2 – postal address DORCHESTER, Dorset
DT3-4 – postal address WEYMOUTH, Dorset
DT5 – postal address PORTLAND, Dorset


DT6 – postal address BRIDPORT, Dorset
DT7 – postal address LYME REGIS, Dorset
DT8 – postal address BEAMINSTER, Dorset
DT9 – postal address SHERBORNE, Dorset
DT10 – postal address STURMINSTER NEWTON, Dorset
DT11 – postal address BLANDFORD FORUM, Dorset

DY

The area DY centres itself on Dudley and covers that part of West Midlands along with northeast Worcestershire. The KIDDERMINSTER post town area is one of the few which are in two separate parts, since DY14 does not adjoin DY10 or 11.

DY1-3 – postal address DUDLEY, W. Midlands
DY4 – postal address TIPTON, W. Midlands
DY5 – postal address BRIERLEY HILL, W. Midlands


DY6 – postal address KINGSWINFORD, W. Midlands
DY7-9 – postal address STOURBRIDGE, W. Midlands


DY10-11 – postal address KIDDERMINSTER, Worcs.
DY12 – postal address BEWDLEY, Worcs.
DY13 – postal address STOURPORT-ON-SEVERN, Worcs.
DY14 – postal address KIDDERMINSTER, Worcs. (again)

E

The postcode area E refers to east London, being entirely north of the Thames. The apparent haphazard numbering of the London postal districts was explained earlierin that, after the number 1 has been given to the most central district, the rest are assigned in alphabetical order according to their 1917 name, before postcodes were introduced.

Those original names are noted below in brackets.

All districts have the postal address LONDON.
E1
E2 (Bethnal Green)
E3 (Bow)
E4 (Chingford)
E5 (Clapton)


E6 (East Ham)
E7 (Forest Gate)
E8 (Hackney)
E9 (Homerton)


E10 (Leyton)
E11 (Leytonstone)
E12 (Manor Park)
E13 (Plaistow)
E14 (Poplar)


E15 (Stratford)
E16 (Victoria Docks)
E17 (Walthamstow)
E18 (Woodford)


During the Olympic Games in 2012, the Olympic Park and its associated buildings were given E20 postcodes.


There are also the non-geographic postcode areas E77 and E98 reserved for specific large users.

EC

The EC area refers to east-central London and essentially comprises the square mile of the City of London, albeit with slightly differing boundaries.

Because of the density of delivery addresses in this area, the four postcode districts EC1-4 are further split by adding letters, e.g. EC1A, EC2V. All postcodes have one of these extra letters, and each district uses all of A, M, N, P, R and V.

EC1-4 – postal address LONDON.


There is also the non-geographic postcode area EC50 reserved for a specific large user.

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