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Description. British postcode areas and former postal counties.svg. English: Labelled map of Royal Mail postcode areas of the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies with insets for Manchester and London conurbations, together with former postal counties . Equirectangular projection with latitude stretching 170%, WGS84 datum.
The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, [1] were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. [2] The purpose of the postal county – as opposed to any other kind of county – was to aid the sorting of mail by differentiating between like-sounding post towns.
55.000000; -4.400000. Description British postcode areas map.svg. English: Labelled map of Royal Mail postcode areas of the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies with insets for Manchester and London conurbations. Equirectangular projection with latitude stretching 170%, WGS84 datum. Geographic limits:
English: Map of Royal Mail former postal counties of England from 1974 to 1996. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170% Geographic limits: West: 6.75W; East: 2.0E; North: 56.0N; South: 49.75N
British former postal counties (numbered).svg. English: Map of Royal Mail former postal counties of the United Kingdom. Date. 15 November 2013, 23:04:44. Source. This file was derived from: British postcode areas map.svg : AB postcode area map.svg : and all the other maps of the form "XX postcode area map.svg" by Richardguk.
Many post towns are former "county towns" but postcode areas rarely align with the county (or successor authority) area. For example, within the PA postcode area the PA1 and PA78 postcode districts are 140 miles (225 km) apart, and cover 5 local authority areas; and the eight postcode areas of the London post town cover only 40% of Greater ...
Template documentation. This template displays a labelled map of the ceremonial counties of England (or their historical equivalents), with each county name linked to a Wikipedia article or category associated with that county. It is intended to provide a navigation template for family of county-related articles about the same subject matter.
Download QR code; Wikidata item; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a list of historic counties of England by area as at the 1871 census.