Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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LS

Leeds is the city at the centre of LS, and this area extends northwest to Ilkley and northeast to Wetherby and Tadcaster (TADCASTER is the only non-West Yorkshire post town in LS).

LS1-5 – postal address LEEDS


LS6-10 – postal address LEEDS


LS11-15 – postal address LEEDS


LS16-20 – postal address LEEDS


LS21 – postal address OTLEY, W. Yorkshire
LS22-23 – postal address WETHERBY, W. Yorkshire
LS24 – postal address TADCASTER, N. Yorkshire
LS25 – postal address LEEDS


LS26-27 – postal address LEEDS
LS28 – postal address PUDSEY, W. Yorkshire
LS29 – postal address ILKLEY, W. Yorkshire


There is also the non-geographic postcode district, LS98 (post town LEEDS) used by First Direct.

LU

The LU postcode area, based on Luton, is a small one, with only three post towns: LUTON, DUNSTABLE and LEIGHTON BUZZARD. Although these are all Bedfordshire towns, the LU2 district includes a thin but sizable sliver of Hertfordshire, while a small corner of LU6 and almost half of LU7 includes an edge of Buckinghamshire.

LU1-4 – postal address LUTON


LU5-6 – postal address DUNSTABLE, Beds.
LU7 – postal address LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Beds.

M

The fifth of the single-letter postcodes, M is for Manchester and it contains only two other post towns – SALFORD (which is wholly surrounded by MANCHESTER) and SALE.

Numbering starts in the city centre and essentially spirals around until it reaches 21, whereupon it continues apparently haphazardly. There is no M10 but numbers otherwise run continuously to 35; then with a few gaps rises to 46; then there is M50 (a recent split from M5 in SALFORD); and finally Manchester Airport is out on its own as M90.

NB In the Local Government Reorganisation of 1974, Greater Manchester was not adopted by Royal Mail and, as such, Cheshire remains the correct county name for SALE. (So too Lancashire for MANCHESTER and SALFORD, although these are two of the major towns which do not require a county to be added to their addresses.)

M1-2, 3 (part) and 4 – postal address MANCHESTER
M3 (part) and 5-7 – postal address SALFORD



M8-9 – postal address MANCHESTER
M11-13 – postal address MANCHESTER


M14-19 – postal address MANCHESTER



M20-24 – postal address MANCHESTER


M25-29 – postal address MANCHESTER


M30-32 – postal address MANCHESTER
M33 – postal address SALE, Cheshire
M34 – postal address MANCHESTER


M35 – postal address MANCHESTER
M38 – postal address MANCHESTER
M40-41 – postal address MANCHESTER
M43 – postal address MANCHESTER


M44-46 – postal address MANCHESTER
M50 – postal address SALFORD
M90 – postal address MANCHESTER


There are also the non-geographic postcode districts, M60 and M99 (post town MANCHESTER/SALFORD) for specific large users.

ME

One might think of ME as Maidstone because that town is included in the area, but technically it stands for Medway because numbering starts in Rochester. It covers north-central Kent, from Rochester in the west to Faversham in the east.

ME1-3 – postal address ROCHESTER, Kent
ME4-5 – postal address CHATHAM, Kent


ME6 – postal address SNODLAND, Kent
ME7-8 – postal address GILLINGHAM, Kent
ME9-10 – postal address SITTINGBOURNE, Kent


ME11 – postal address QUEENBOROUGH, Kent
ME12 – postal address SHEERNESS, Kent
ME13 – postal address FAVERSHAM, Kent


ME14-18 – postal address MAIDSTONE, Kent
ME19 – postal address WEST MALLING, Kent (separated from MAIDSTONE in July 1990)
ME20 – postal address AYLESFORD, Kent (separated from MAIDSTONE in July 1990)

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