Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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L

The fourth of the single-letter postcodes, L of course is for Liverpool. The area now covers only the northeast side of the Mersey, the Wirral peninsula having been transferred to CH in 1999.

Numbering starts in the city centre and essentially runs in semicircular bands around it as the numbers increase. The precise logic of this, though, does waver somewhat. L20 and L30 have the post town BOOTLE, surrounded by LIVERPOOL districts.

L1-5 – postal address LIVERPOOL


L6-10 – postal address LIVERPOOL


L11-15 – postal address LIVERPOOL


L16-19 – postal address LIVERPOOL
L20 – postal address BOOTLE, Merseyside


L21-25 – postal address LIVERPOOL


L26-29 – postal address LIVERPOOL
L30 – postal address BOOTLE, Merseyside


L31-33 – postal address LIVERPOOL
L34-35 – postal address PRESCOT, Merseyside


L36-38 – postal address LIVERPOOL
L39-40 – postal address ORMSKIRK, Lancs.


There are also several non-geographic postcode districts for various compaines, L67-75 (post town LIVERPOOL) and L80 (post town BOOTLE): e.g. L67 Littlewoods Pools; L71 American Express; L74-75 HM Revenue & Customs.

LA

LA derives from Lancaster and the area goes north from there, covering Furness and the south Lake District.

LA1-2 – postal address LANCASTER
LA3-4 – postal address MORECAMBE, Lancs.
LA5-6 – postal address CARNFORTH, Lancs.



LA7 – postal address MILNTHORPE, Cumbria
LA8-9 – postal address KENDAL, Cumbria
LA10 – postal address SEDBERGH, Cumbria


LA11 – postal address GRANGE-OVER-SANDS, Cumbria
LA12 – postal address ULVERSTON, Cumbria
LA13-14 – postal address BARROW-IN-FURNESS, Cumbria
LA15 – postal address DALTON-IN-FURNESS, Cumbria


LA16 – postal address ASKAM-IN-FURNESS, Cumbria
LA17 – postal address KIRKBY-IN-FURNESS, Cumbria
LA18-19 – postal address MILLOM, Cumbria (LA19 was BOOTLE STATION, Cumbria until c.1979)


LA20 – postal address BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, Cumbria
LA21 – postal address CONISTON, Cumbria
LA22 – postal address AMBLESIDE, Cumbria
LA23 – postal address WINDERMERE, Cumbria

LD

The LD postcode area is a rural one and covers the southern half of Powys in mid-Wales, the letters L and D coming from Llandrindod Wells. It is one of only two examples of total simplicity, in that each of its postcode districts forms a different post town and they are numbered straightforwardly upwards from 1 (the other such area is ML). Segments of the LD7 and LD8 districts are geographically in England.

LD1 – postal address LLANDRINDOD WELLS, Powys
LD2 – postal address BUILTH WELLS, Powys
LD3 – postal address BRECON, Powys
LD4 – postal address LLANGAMMARCH WELLS, Powys


LD5 – postal address LLANWRTYD WELLS, Powys
LD6 – postal address RHAYADER, Powys
LD7 – postal address KNIGHTON, Powys
LD8 – postal address PRESTEIGNE, Powys

LE

The LE postcode area contains all of Leicestershire's post towns, with the city of Leicester obviously the centrepiece. Its numbering appears logical up to a point: 1-9 being LEICESTER and 10-18 being the various outlying towns; but then the seemingly random 65 and 67 break up the logic. This occurred in 1992, when LE6 was split into these latter two districts with the innermost part of LE6 remaining under LEICESTER. (ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH had always been a post town, while COALVILLE, IBSTOCK and MARKFIELD had hitherto been under LEICESTER.) At the same time WIGSTON, LE18 was created from parts of LE8, but this is less obvious because 18 was the next unused number. (The WIGSTON post town area is entirely surrounded by LEICESTER.)

NB Although postal counties were never updated with Local Government Reorganisation in 1996-8, counties having been rendered postally redundant a year earlier, an exception was made in the case of Rutland after a campaign by local residents: the postal county for OAKHAM was changed from Leics. to Rutland in 2008.

LE1-5 – postal address LEICESTER


LE6-9 – postal address LEICESTER
LE10 – postal address HINCKLEY, Leics.


LE11-12 – postal address LOUGHBOROUGH, Leics.
LE13-14 – postal address MELTON MOWBRAY, Leics.
LE15 – postal address OAKHAM, Rutland


LE16 – postal address MARKET HARBOROUGH, Leics.
LE17 – postal address LUTTERWORTH, Leics.
LE18 – postal address WIGSTON, Leics. (separated from LEICESTER, LE8 in May 1992)
LE65 – postal address ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, Leics. (separated from LE6 in May 1992)
LE67 (part) – postal address COALVILLE, Leics. (separated from LEICESTER, LE6 in May 1992)
LE67 (part) – postal address IBSTOCK, Leics. (separated from LEICESTER, LE6 in May 1992)
LE67 (part) – postal address MARKFIELD, Leics. (separated from LEICESTER, LE6 in May 1992)


There are also the non-geographic postcode districts, LE87, LE94-95 (post town LEICESTER).

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