Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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WF

The letters WF denote Wakefield and this long, narrowish area covers the southwest edge of West Yorkshire.

WF1-4 – postal address WAKEFIELD, W. Yorkshire


WF5 – postal address OSSETT, W. Yorkshire
WF6 – postal address NORMANTON, W. Yorkshire
WF7-9 – postal address PONTEFRACT, W. Yorkshire


WF10 – postal address CASTLEFORD, W. Yorkshire
WF11 – postal address KNOTTINGLEY, W. Yorkshire
WF12-13 – postal address DEWSBURY, W. Yorkshire


WF14 – postal address MIRFIELD, W. Yorkshire
WF15 – postal address LIVERSEDGE, W. Yorkshire
WF16 – postal address HECKMONDWIKE, W. Yorkshire
WF17 – postal address BATLEY, W. Yorkshire


There is also the non-geographic postcode district for Redcats, WF90 (post town WAKEFIELD).

WN

The small WN postcode area is based on Wigan and extends from Leigh to Skelmersdale.

NB In the Local Government Reorganisation of 1974, Greater Manchester was not adopted by Royal Mail and, as such, Lancashire remains the correct county name.

WN1-4 – postal address WIGAN, Lancs.


WN5-6 – postal address WIGAN, Lancs.
WN7 – postal address LEIGH, Lancs.
WN8 – postal address SKELMERSDALE, Lancs.

WR

The WR postcode area is centred on Worcester and covers the majority of Worcestershire (Kidderminster and the surrounding area comes under DY and Bromsgrove/Redditch under B).

WR1-4 – postal address WORCESTER


WR5-8 – postal address WORCESTER


WR9 – postal address DROITWICH, Worcs.
WR10 – postal address PERSHORE, Worcs.
WR11 – postal address EVESHAM, Worcs.
WR12 – postal address BROADWAY, Worcs.


WR13-14 – postal address MALVERN, Worcs.
WR15 – postal address TENBURY WELLS, Worcs.


There are also the non-geographic postcode districts for Kays Ltd., WR78 and WR99 (post town WORCESTER).

WS

WS is for Walsall and, as well as that part of the West Midlands metropolis, it extends into Staffordshire proper as far as LICHFIELD and Abbots Bromley (under RUGELEY).

WS1-6 – postal address WALSALL



WS7 – postal address BURNTWOOD, Staffs. (separated from WALSALL in c.2000)
WS8-9 – postal address WALSALL
WS10 – postal address WEDNESBURY, W. Midlands


WS11-12 – postal address CANNOCK, Staffs.
WS13-14 – postal address LICHFIELD, Staffs.
WS15 – postal address RUGELEY, Staffs.

WV

Alongside WS, the WV area is based on Wolverhampton and as such covers the northwest of the West Midlands metropolis. It includes BRIDGNORTH, in Shropshire, and the western fringes of the WOLVERHAMPTON post town area also cross the border a little into Shropshire.

WV1-5 – postal address WOLVERHAMPTON


WV6-11 – postal address WOLVERHAMPTON



WV12-13 – postal address WILLENHALL, W. Midlands
WV14 – postal address BILSTON, W. Midlands
WV15-16 – postal address BRIDGNORTH, Shropshire

YO

The letters YO represent York and this postcode area is a large, mainly rural one. It extends from York eastward to the coast at Bridlington, northeast to Whitby, and northwest as far as Thirsk.

The relatively recent splitting of codes, from YO2 to YO6 into two-digit numbers, has left an apparently random-looking numerical sequence.

YO1 – postal address YORK
YO7 – postal address THIRSK, N. Yorkshire
YO8 – postal address SELBY, N. Yorkshire
YO10 – postal address YORK


YO11-13 – postal address SCARBOROUGH, N. Yorkshire
YO14 – postal address FILEY, N. Yorkshire


YO15-16 – postal address BRIDLINGTON, N. Yorkshire
YO17 – postal address MALTON, N. Yorkshire
YO18 – postal address PICKERING, N. Yorkshire
YO19 – postal address YORK


YO21-22 – postal address WHITBY, N. Yorkshire
YO23-24 – postal address YORK
YO25 – postal address DRIFFIELD, N. Humberside
YO26 – postal address YORK



YO30-32 – postal address YORK
YO41-43 – postal address YORK



YO51 – postal address YORK
YO60-62 – postal address YORK


There are also the non-geographic postcode districts for various companies, YO90-91 (post town YORK).

ZE

The final postcode area alphabetically is ZE, which derives from Zetland, the former name of the Shetland Islands council. The ZE1 district covers Lerwick and Scalloway; ZE2 covers almost all of the rest of the mainland and all outer islands; and ZE3 just the southern tip of the mainland, around Sumburgh airport.

Lerwick was previously a post town in its own right, but in 2000 was redesignated as SHETLAND, so the whole of the area is covered by the one post town – uniquely outside London.

ZE1-3 – postal address SHETLAND

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