Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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BB

BB is for Blackburn, and the area generally proceeds east from there up the Colne valley towards Burnley, ending with Barnoldswick and the Yorkshire border.

BB1-2 – postal address BLACKBURN
BB3 – postal address DARWEN, Lancs.
BB4 – postal address ROSSENDALE, Lancs.
BB5 – postal address ACCRINGTON, Lancs.


BB6 – postal address BLACKBURN (again)
BB7 – postal address CLITHEROE, Lancs.
BB8 – postal address COLNE, Lancs.
BB9 – postal address NELSON, Lancs.


BB10-12 – postal address BURNLEY, Lancs.
BB18 – postal address BARNOLDSWICK (separated from COLNE, BB8, in July 1997)


There is also the non-geographic postcode area BB94 (post town BARNOLDSWICK) reserved for a specific large user.

BD

BD concerns itself with serving Bradford and the surrounding area. With HD covering Huddersfield, the BD area stretches further north, rurally, than it does south. However, the southern fringe of the BRADFORD post town, plus CLECKHEATON, are outside the city limits – administratively in Kirklees borough.

Within the BRADFORD post town, the numbering from BD1 to BD15 runs roughly in a clockwise spiral from the city centre.

BD1-15 – postal address BRADFORD, W. Yorkshire




BD16 – postal address BINGLEY, W. Yorkshire
BD17-18 – postal address SHIPLEY, W. Yorkshire
BD19 – postal address CLECKHEATON, W. Yorkshire


BD20-22 – postal address KEIGHLEY, W. Yorkshire
BD23 – postal address SKIPTON, N. Yorkshire
BD24 – postal address SETTLE, N. Yorkshire


There are also the non-geographic postcode areas BD97-99 (post towns BINGLEY and BRADFORD) reserved for specific large users.

BH

BH is centred on Bournemouth, and covers eastern Dorset and the southwestern fringe of Hampshire. Much of the CHRISTCHURCH area includes bits of Hampshire, while RINGWOOD includes an area of east Dorset.

BH1-11 – postal address BOURNEMOUTH




BH12-17 – postal address POOLE, Dorset



BH18 – postal address BROADSTONE, Dorset
BH19 – postal address SWANAGE, Dorset
BH20 – postal address WAREHAM, Dorset
BH21 – postal address WIMBORNE, Dorset
BH22 – postal address FERNDOWN, Dorset (separated from WIMBORNE in March 1991)


BH23 – postal address CHRISTCHURCH, Dorset
BH24 – postal address RINGWOOD, Hants.
BH25 – postal address NEW MILTON, Hants.
BH31 – postal address VERWOOD, Dorset (separated from WIMBORNE, BH21, in June 1991)

BL

The BL area contains the fewest post towns of any mainland postcode area outside the London postal area, featuring just two: BOLTON and BURY on the northern fringe of Greater Manchester. However, since Greater Manchester was not updated as a postal county in the local government reorganisation of 1974, Lancashire remains the correct county name for postal purposes. The area's northern extremity does encroach into Lancashire proper, in Edgworth and north of Ramsbottom.

The BL area makes fairly rare use of zero in the district BL0, possibly because, with exactly ten districts, it was considered preferable that they all be single-digit.

BL1-7 – postal address BOLTON



BL8-9 and BL0 – postal address BURY, Lancs.


There are also the non-geographic postcode areas BL11, 78 and 80 (post town BOLTON) reserved for specific large users.

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