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Old August 7th 10, 11:58 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roy Badami Roy Badami is offline
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Default [OT] Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode AddressFile

On 03/08/10 19:27, Eric wrote:

surname,suburb worked for us when I were a nipper, though mostly we
put the road in, and later, a direction.


I believe the PAF used to contain rural addresses in isolated villages
where there were no street names or house numbers. Instead, the
Building Name field in PAF was set to a parenthisised surname.

No idea if such entries still exist in PAF.

-roy