Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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KA

Staying in Scotland, the KA area is based on Kilmarnock and possibly even stands for 'Kilmarnock and Ayr'. It covers Ayrshire (except Skelmorlie which creeps into PA) and the islands of Arran and Cumbrae.

KA1-3 – postal address KILMARNOCK, Ayrshire
KA4 – postal address GALSTON, Ayrshire
KA5 – postal address MAUCHLINE, Ayrshire


KA6-8 – postal address AYR
KA9 – postal address PRESTWICK, Ayrshire
KA10 – postal address TROON, Ayrshire


KA11-12 – postal address IRVINE, Ayrshire
KA13 – postal address KILWINNING, Ayrshire
KA14-15 – postal address BEITH, Ayrshire (KA14 was GLENGARNOCK, Ayrshire until c.1980)


KA16 – postal address NEWMILNS, Ayrshire
KA17 – postal address DARVEL, Ayrshire
KA18 – postal address CUMNOCK, Ayrshire
KA19 – postal address MAYBOLE, Ayrshire
KA20 – postal address STEVENSTON, Ayrshire


KA21 – postal address SALTCOATS, Ayrshire
KA22 – postal address ARDROSSAN, Ayrshire
KA23 – postal address WEST KILBRIDE, Ayrshire
KA24 – postal address DALRY, Ayrshire
KA25 – postal address KILBIRNIE, Ayrshire


KA26 – postal address GIRVAN, Ayrshire
KA27 – postal address ISLE OF ARRAN (BRODICK, Isle of Arran until June 2000)
KA28 – postal address ISLE OF CUMBRAE (MILLPORT, Isle of Cumbrae until June 2000)
KA29-30 – postal address LARGS, Ayrshire (KA29 was FAIRLIE, Ayrshire until 1977)

KT

KT is for Kingston-upon-Thames and covers that part of Surrey to the immediate southwest of the London postal area, squeezed between TW and SM and larger than both of them.

NB Within Greater London, the old county names retained for postal purposes in those parts outside the London postal area. Therefore, Surrey remains the correct county name postally, even for those towns no longer in Surrey.

KT1-2 – postal address KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, Surrey
KT3 – postal address NEW MALDEN, Surrey
KT4 – postal address WORCESTER PARK, Surrey
KT5-6 – postal address SURBITON, Surrey



KT7 – postal address THAMES DITTON, Surrey
KT8 (part) – postal address EAST MOLESEY, Surrey
KT8 (part) – postal address WEST MOLESEY, Surrey (separated from EAST MOLESEY in June 1991)
KT9 – postal address CHESSINGTON, Surrey
KT10 – postal address EHSER, Surrey
KT11 – postal address COBHAM, Surrey


KT12 – postal address WALTON-ON-THAMES, Surrey
KT13 – postal address WEYBRIDGE, Surrey
KT14 – postal address WEST BYFLEET, Surrey (separated from WEYBRIDGE in June 1991)
KT15 – postal address ADDLESTONE, Surrey (separated from WEYBRIDGE in June 1991)
KT16 – postal address CHERTSEY, Surrey


KT17-19 – postal address EPSOM, Surrey
KT20 – postal address TADWORTH, Surrey


KT21 – postal address ASHTEAD, Surrey
KT22-24 – postal address LEATHERHEAD, Surrey

KW

The postcode KW derives from Kirkwall but it might just as easily be reversed to WK because, as well as covering the Orkneys, it starts in Wick and includes all of Caithness and a patch of Sutherland. Numbering ascends from Wick down the east coast to Golspie, and then staggers its way up to the north coast at Thurso, with the final three districts serving the Orkney Islands – 15 Kirkwall and its immediate surroundings; 16 Stromness including Graemsay, Hoy and Flotta; and 17 covering the rest of the Orkney Mainland and all the northern outlying isles.

Curiously, there is no KW4.

(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.)

KW1 – postal address WICK, Caithness (including the now uninhabited island of Stroma)
KW2-3 – postal address LYBSTER, Caithness (KW2 was ULBSTER, Caithness until 1974)
KW5 – postal address LATHERON, Caithness
KW6 – postal address DUNBEATH, Caithness


KW7 – postal address BERRIEDALE, Caithness
KW8 – postal address HELMSDALE, Sutherland
KW9 – postal address BRORA, Sutherland
KW10 – postal address GOLSPIE, Sutherland


KW11 – postal address KINBRACE, Sutherland
KW12 – postal address HALKIRK, Sutherland
KW13 – postal address FORSINARD, Sutherland
KW14 – postal address THURSO, Caithness


KW15 – postal address KIRKWALL, Orkney
KW16 – postal address STROMNESS, Orkney
KW17 – postal address ORKNEY

KY

KY are the first and last letters of Kirkcaldy and this area covers Fife and Kinross-shire – except the northern tip of Fife which, being just across the Tay bridges from Dundee, comes under DD.

(At local government reorganisation in 1974, the old Scottish counties, unlike many in England and Wales, were not substituted by the Post Office, so Fife always remained correct for postal purposes. So too theoretically Kinross-shire, although as its only post town is KINROSS, which does not require the county name to be added, it is never seen.)

KY1-2 – postal address KIRKCALDY, Fife
KY3 – postal address BURNTISLAND, Fife
KY4 – postal address COWDENBEATH, Fife
KY5 – postal address LOCHGELLY, Fife


KY6-7 – postal address GLENROTHES, Fife
KY8-9 – postal address LEVEN, Fife (KY9 was ELIE, Fife until c.1989)
KY10 – postal address ANSTRUTHER, Fife


KY11 (part) – postal address INVERKEITHING, Fife
KY11 (part) and 12 – postal address DUNFERMLINE, Fife
KY13 – postal address KINROSS
KY14-15 – postal address CUPAR, Fife (KY14 was AUCHTERMUCHTY, Fife until c.1982)
KY16 – postal address ST. ANDREWS, Fife



There is also the non-geographic postcode district KY99 (post town DUNFERMLINE) used by Visa.

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