Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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FK

The FK postcode area is centred on Falkirk and essentially comprises Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire, but it also features a substantial part of Perthshire.

(At local government reorganisation in 1974, the old Scottish counties, unlike many in England and Wales, were not substituted by the Post Office, so the old county names remain correct for postal purposes.)

FK1-2 – postal address FALKIRK
FK3 – postal address GRANGEMOUTH, Stirlingshire
FK4 – postal address BONNYBRIDGE, Stirlingshire
FK5 – postal address LARBERT, Stirlingshire


FK6 – postal address DENNY, Stirlinghshire
FK7-9 – postal address STIRLING
FK10 (part) – postal address ALLOA, Clackmannanshire
FK10 (part) – postal address CLACKMANNAN


FK11 – postal address MENSTRIE, Clackmannanshire
FK12 – postal address ALVA, Clackmannanshire
FK13 – postal address TILLICOULTRY, Clackmannanshire
FK14 – postal address DOLLAR, Clackmannanshire
FK15 – postal address DUNBLANE, Perthshire


FK16 – postal address DOUNE, Perthshire
FK17-18 – postal address CALLANDER, Perthshire
FK19 – postal address LOCHEARNHEAD, Perthshire
FK20 – postal address CRIANLARICH, Perthshire
FK21 – postal address KILLIN, Perthshire

FY

FY are not the letters that would immediately spring to mind as the postcode for Blackpool, but that is because it is named after the Fylde, the peninsula on which the famous seaside resort stands.

The post towns POULTON-LE-FYLDE and THORNTON-CLEVELEYS were previously under BLACKPOOL, becoming post towns in their own right in 1991. THORNTON-CLEVELEYS addresses were previously either Thornton, BLACKPOOL or Cleveleys, BLACKPOOL.

FY1-4 – postal address BLACKPOOL


FY5 – postal address THORNTON-CLEVELEYS, Lancs. (BLACKPOOL until September 1991)
FY6 – postal address POULTON-LE-FYLDE, Lancs. (BLACKPOOL until September 1991)
FY7 – postal address FLEETWOOD, Lancs.
FY8 – postal address LYTHAM ST. ANNES, Lancs.

G

The third single-letter postcode area alphabetically, G of course is for Glasgow. A large area, the G postcode spreads more rurally northward and southward than it does east and west – this is because of near neighbours ML (Motherwell) and PA (Paisley) on those latter two sides. The G63 district, in particular, includes the rural area all the way up to the eastern shore of Loch Lomond.

Although large in area, the G postcode contains few post towns – mainly because so much of the surrounding area comes under GLASGOW itself. The other post towns are all in Dunbartonshire. The G60 area is a bit of an anomaly, being a detachment of the GLASGOW post town area, separated from the bulk by CLYDEBANK in G81.

At local government reorganisation in 1974, the old Scottish counties, unlike many in England and Wales, were not substituted by the Post Office, so Dunbartonshire remains correct for postal purposes. (So too does Lanarkshire, GLASGOW's county, but since Glasgow was one of those large cities traditionally not requiring the county name, it is omitted here.)

G1-5 – postal address GLASGOW


G11-15 – postal address GLASGOW


G20-23 – postal address GLASGOW


G31-34 – postal address GLASGOW


G40-46 – postal address GLASGOW



G51-53 – postal address GLASGOW


G60-64 – postal address GLASGOW


G60-69 – postal address GLASGOW


G71-74 – postal address GLASGOW


G75-78 – postal address GLASGOW


G81 – postal address CLYDEBANK, Dunbartonshire
G82 – postal address DUMBARTON
G83 (part) – postal address ALEXANDRIA, Dunbartonshire
G83 (part) – postal address ARROCHAR, Dunbartonshire
G84 – postal address HELENSBURGH, Dunbartonshire


There are also five non-geographic postcode areas for specific organisations – G9 (newspaper competitions), G58 (National Savings), G70 and G79 (Inland Revenue) and G90 (Dept. for Work & Pensions).

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