Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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GL

GL is for Gloucester and essentially covers the county of Gloucestershire. The district numbering, counting upwards from GL1, starts in the city centre before spiralling around the town clockwise to GL20 in Tewkesbury. Numbering then jumps to 50 in Cheltenham town centre and continues upwards towards the easternmost reaches of the county.

NB The 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. The county Avon therefore remains the correct postal county for BADMINTON.

GL1-4 – postal address GLOUCESTER


GL5-6 – postal address STROUD, Glos.
GL7 (part) – postal address CIRENCESTER, Glos.
GL7 (part) – postal address FAIRFORD, Glos.
GL7 (part) – postal address LECHLADE, Glos.
GL8 – postal address TETBURY, Glos.
GL9 – postal address BADMINTON, Avon
GL10 – postal address STONEHOUSE, Glos.



GL11 – postal address DURSLEY, Glos.
GL12 – postal address WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, Glos.
GL13 – postal address BERKELEY, Glos.
GL14 (part) – postal address CINDERFORD, Glos.
GL14 (part) – postal address NEWNHAM, Glos.
GL14 (part) – postal address WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN, Glos.
GL15 (part) – postal address BLAKENEY, Glos.
GL15 (part) – postal address LYDNEY, Glos.


GL16 – postal address COLEFORD, Glos.
GL17 (part) – postal address DRYBROOK, Glos.
GL17 (part) – postal address LONGHOPE, Glos.
GL17 (part) – postal address LYDBROOK, Glos.
GL17 (part) – postal address MITCHELDEAN, Glos.
GL17 (part) – postal address RUARDEAN, Glos.
GL18 (part) – postal address DYMOCK, Glos.
GL18 (part) – postal address NEWENT, Glos.
GL19 – postal address GLOUCESTER (again)
GL20 – postal address TEWKESBURY, Glos.


GL50-54 – postal address CHELTENHAM, Glos.


GL55 – postal address CHIPPING CAMPDEN, Glos.
GL56 – postal address MORETON-IN-MARSH, Glos.

GU

GU is based on Guildford and, as well as extending north to Camberley and Virginia Water, also extends rurally a long way south, to Petersfield and Midhurst.

GU1-5 – postal address GUILDFORD, Surrey


GU6 – postal address CRANLEIGH, Surrey
GU7-8 – postal address GODALMING, Surrey
GU9-10 – postal address FARNHAM, Surrey


GU11-12 – postal address ALDERSHOT, Hants.
GU13 – postal address FLEET, Hants.
GU14 – postal address FARNBOROUGH, Hants.


GU15-17 – postal address CAMBERLEY, Surrey
GU18 – postal address LIGHTWATER, Surrey
GU19 – postal address BAGSHOT, Surrey
GU20 – postal address WINDLESHAM, Surrey



GU21-24 – postal address WOKING, Surrey
GU25 – postal address VIRGINIA WATER, Surrey


GU26 – postal address HINDHEAD, Surrey
GU27 – postal address HASLEMERE, Surrey
GU28 – postal address PETWORTH, W. Sussex
GU29 – postal address MIDHURST, W. Sussex
GU30 – postal address LIPHOOK, Hants.


GU31-32 – postal address PETERSFIELD, Hants.
GU33 – postal address LISS, Hants.
GU34 – postal address ALTON, Hants.
GU35 – postal address BORDON, Hants.


GU46 – postal address YATELEY, Hants. (separated from CAMBERLEY, GU17 in the 1990s)
GU47 – postal address SANDHURST, Berks. (separated from CAMBERLEY, GU15 in the 1990s)

HA

HA are the first two letters of Harrow and form the postcodes of a relatively compact area to the immediate northwest of the London postal area. It is relatively unusual in having a zero district – HA0.

Although the official county of Middlesex was discontinued in 1965, it was retained for postal purposes in those parts outside the London postal area. Therefore, Middlesex remains a correct county name.

HA1-3 – postal address HARROW, Middx.
HA4 – postal address RUISLIP, Middx.
HA5 – postal address PINNER, Middx.


HA6 – postal address NORTHWOOD, Middx.
HA7 – postal address STANMORE, Middx.
HA8 – postal address EDGWARE, Middx.
HA9 and HA0 – postal address WEMBLEY, Middx.

HD

Like HA, the HD postcode is a relatively small one. It is centred on Huddersfield and, until HOLMFIRTH was made a post town in its own right, contained only one post town other than HUDDERSFIELD itself.

HD1-5 – postal address HUDDERSFIELD


HD6 – postal address BRIGHOUSE, W. Yorkshire
HD7 – postal address HOLMFIRTH, W. Yorkshire (separated from HUDDERSFIELD in 1995).
HD8 – postal address HUDDERSFIELD (again)

HG

The HG area is a smallish rural area of North Yorkshire based on Harrogate. It extends rurally to the northwest of the town but negligibly to the south and east. It is one of the smallest areas in terms of postcode districts (only five) and post towns (three).

HG1-3 – postal address HARROGATE, N. Yorkshire
HG4 – postal address RIPON, N. Yorkshire
HG5 – postal address KNARESBOROUGH, N. Yorkshire

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