Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos

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BN

BN refers to Brighton, and includes the western East Sussex and eastern West Sussex. The district BN4 was split at some stage into several districts numbered in the fortysomethings.

BN1-2 – postal address BRIGHTON
BN3 – postal address HOVE, E. Sussex


BN5 – postal address HENFIELD, W. Sussex
BN6 – postal address HASSOCKS, W. Sussex
BN7-8 – postal address LEWES, E. Sussex


BN9 – postal address NEWHAVEN, E. Sussex
BN10 – postal address PEACEHAVEN, E. Sussex (separated from NEWHAVEN in May 1990)
BN11-14 – postal address WORTHING, W. Sussex



BN15 – postal address LANCING, W. Sussex
BN16-17 – postal address LITTLEHAMPTON, W. Sussex
BN18 – postal address ARUNDEL, W. Sussex


BN20-23 – postal address EASTBOURNE, E. Sussex


BN24 – postal address PEVENSEY, E. Sussex
BN25 – postal address SEAFORD, E. Sussex
BN26 – postal address POLEGATE, E. Sussex
BN27 – postal address HAILSHAM, E. Sussex


BN41-42 – postal address BRIGHTON
BN43 – postal address SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, W. Sussex
BN44 – postal address STEYNING, W. Sussex
BN45 – postal address BRIGHTON


There are also the non-geographic postcode areas BN88 and 99 (post town BRIGHTON) reserved for specific large users.

BR

The postcode area BR is in southeast London, centred on Bromley. The addresses within Greater London but outside the London postcode areas still allude to their historical counties, so Kent is still the correct county name.

BR1, BR2 (part) – postal address BROMLEY
BR2 (part) – postal address KESTON, Kent
BR3 – postal address BECKENHAM, Kent
BR4 – postal address WEST WICKHAM, Kent


BR5-6 – postal address ORPINGTON, Kent
BR7 – postal address CHISLEHURST, Kent
BR8 – postal address SWANLEY, Kent

BS

BS stands for Bristol, in postcode terms. It covers a fair distance north and south of the city – the Bristol post town extends northwards to Thornbury while the post towns WESTON-SUPER-MARE, CHEDDAR and WEDMORE to the south also come under BS.

The former, more rural, BS12 and BS17-19 districts of the BRISTOL post town have been changed to the 30s and 40s in recent years.

NB The Royal Mail ceased the requirement for county names on addresses in 1996 and these were not updated after local government reorganisation of the following year. The county Avon therefore remains the correct postal county for BRISTOL and the others shown as such. (Since BRISTOL did not historically require the county name beforehand, though, it is omitted here.)

BS1-11 – postal address BRISTOL




BS13-16 – postal address BRISTOL
BS20 – postal address BRISTOL


BS21 – postal address CLEVEDON, Avon
BS22-24 – postal address WESTON-SUPER-MARE, Avon
BS25 – postal address WINSCOMBE, Avon (separated from BRISTOL in July 1997)


BS26 – postal address AXBRIDGE, Somerset
BS27 – postal address CHEDDAR, Somerset
BS28 – postal address WEDMORE, Somerset
BS29 – postal address BANWELL, Avon (separated from WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS24, in July 1997)


BS30-32 – postal address BRISTOL
BS34-37 – postal address BRISTOL



BS39-41 – postal address BRISTOL
BS48-49 – postal address BRISTOL


There are also the non-geographic postcode areas BS98-99 (post town BRISTOL) reserved for specific large users.

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