Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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IP

The people of Ipswich had an IP address long before the internet came about, because this is their postcode. The area covers Suffolk (except for the southwest and northeast extremities) and also southwest Norfolk.

The sequence of numbering is shaped rather like the tape in an old cassette: Starting in central Ipswich, numbering ascends anticlockwise around the suburbs and then around the outside of the town, heads up the coast and then inland along the Norfolk border, and finishes by spooling anticlockwise again into the centre of Bury St. Edmunds.

IP1-10 – postal address IPSWICH



IP11 – postal address FELIXSTOWE, Suffolk
IP12-13 – postal address WOODBRIDGE, Suffolk
IP14 – postal address STOWMARKET, Suffolk
IP15 – postal address ALDEBURGH, Suffolk


IP16 – postal address LEISTON, Suffolk
IP17 – postal address SAXMUNDHAM, Suffolk
IP18 – postal address SOUTHWOLD, Suffolk
IP19 – postal address HALESWORTH, Suffolk


IP20 – postal address HARLESTON, Norfolk
IP21-22 – postal address DISS, Norfolk
IP23 – postal address EYE, Suffolk


IP24-26 – postal address THETFORD, Norfolk
IP27 – postal address BRANDON, Suffolk


IP28-33 – postal address BURY ST. EDMUNDS, Suffolk



There is also the non-geographic postcode district for bulk mail, IP98 (post town DISS).

IV

The IV postcode area is based on Inverness and it is I think the largest in terms of area, rivalled only by PH, its southern neighbour. As well as serving the towns east along the Moray Firth, IV covers the whole of northwest Scotland from Kyle of Lochalsh (plain 'KYLE' postally speaking) to Cape Wrath – and also the Isle of Skye.

There is no longer an IV33, IV34 or IV35 district as these were merged into AB38 in August 1994. The non-consecutively numbered IV63 was separated from IV3 in recent years, although I have not been able to ascertain exactly when.

(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. This is only theoretically true of Nairnshire, however: because Nairnshire's only post town is NAIRN, and a town giving its name to a county in this way does not have the county added, 'Nairnshire' does not feature in any addresses.)

IV1-3 – postal address INVERNESS
IV4 – postal address BEAULY, Inverness-shire
IV5 – postal address INVERNESS (this was KIRKHILL, Inverness-shire until c.1980)


IV6 – postal address MUIR OF ORD, Ross-shire
IV7 – postal address DINGWALL, Ross-shire (CONON BRIDGE, Ross-shire until c.1980)
IV8 – postal address MUNLOCHY, Ross-shire
IV9 – postal address AVOCH, Ross-shire
IV10 – postal address FORTROSE, Ross-shire
IV11 – postal address CROMARTY, Ross-shire



IV12 – postal address NAIRN
IV13 – postal address INVERNESS (TOMATIN, Inverness-shire until c.1980)
IV14 – postal address STRATHPEFFER, Ross-shire
IV15-16 – postal address DINGWALL, Ross-shire (IV16 was EVANTON, Ross-shire until c.1980)


IV17 – postal address ALNESS, Ross-shire
IV18 – postal address INVERGORDON, Ross-shire
IV19-20 – postal address TAIN, Ross-shire (IV20 was FEARN, Ross-shire until c.1980)
IV21 – postal address GAIRLOCH, Ross-shire


IV22 – postal address ACHNASHEEN, Ross-shire
IV23 – postal address GARVE, Ross-shire
IV24 – postal address ARDGAY, Sutherland
IV25 – postal address DORNOCH, Sutherland
IV26 – postal address ULLAPOOL, Ross-shire


IV27 – postal address LAIRG, Sutherland [area extends all the way to Cape Wrath]
IV28 – postal address ROGART, Sutherland
IV30 – postal address ELGIN, Morayshire
IV31 – postal address LOSSIEMOUTH, Morayshire
IV32 – postal address FOCHABERS, Morayshire
IV36 – postal address FORRES, Morayshire



IV40 – postal address KYLE, Ross-shire [includes Isle of Raasay]
IV41 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (KYLEAKIN, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV42 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (BREAKISH, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV43 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (ISLE ORNSAY, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV44 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (TEANGUE, Isle of Skye until c.1980)


IV45 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (ARDVASAR, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV46 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (TARSKAVAIG, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV47 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (CARBOST, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV48 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (SCONSER, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV49 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (BROADFORD, Isle of Skye until Aug. 1993)
IV51 – postal address PORTREE, Isle of Skye



IV52 – postal address PLOCKTON, Ross-shire
IV53 – postal address STROME FERRY, Ross-shire
IV54 – postal address STRATHCARRON, Ross-shire
IV55 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (DUNVEGAN, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV56 – postal address ISLE OF SKYE (STRUAN, Isle of Skye until c.1980)
IV63 – postal address INVERNESS (separated from IV3 relatively recently)

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