City Of London Postcodes
The london postal district is the area in england of 241 square miles to which mail addressed to the london post town is delivered.
City of london postcodes. Ec postcode area wikipedia inside city of london postcode map. At its widest point it is 1 91 miles by 2 50 miles in length. House prices in the capital are mainly defined by location and londoners regularly pay above the odds to acquire desirable postcodes. Geonames home postal codes.
The ec1 4 postcodes are actually referred to now as the city of london. It was integrated by the post office into th. City of london contains approximately 4 376 households with a population of about 7 357 2011 census. This page provides postcode data for the city of london english ceremonial county.
The city of london greater london postcodes are alphanumeric and were adopted nationally between 11 october 1959 and 1974. This page provides postcode data for the city of london uk london borough. London ec1 incorporates some 282 postcodes. City and county of the city of london.
The w1 postcode is often thought of as central london because it is the tourist and clubbing centre it s also known as the west end but it is actually slightly west of centre. A full city of london greater london england postcode is known as a postcode unit and designates an area with a number of addresses or a single major delivery point in the uk. The general post office at the control of the postmaster general directed sir rowland hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history has been subject to gradual periodic reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units with the early loss of two compass points and a minor retraction in 1866. It includes almost all of the city of london and parts of the london boroughs of islington camden hackney tower hamlets and westminster.
Decades of snobbery have revolved around whether your area of residence has a postcode respected by the upper echelons of london society. City and county of the city of london 51 52 0 081. Officially london centres on charing cross station in wc1. City of london postcodes.
The ec eastern central postcode area also known as the london ec postal area is a group of postcode districts in central london england.