Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode Address File
On 07/08/10 20:59, Mizter T wrote:
I like how that page dutifully lists all the London postcodes and the
olde counties that they're in - though I'm sure that many postcodes
straddle the old boundaries so presumably it's what the county the
majority of the postcode sits in that the author has used.
Postal counties are a bit arbitrary anyway, and don't entirely conform
to the real world.
I grew up in "Rochdale, Lancs." even though Rochdale hadn't been in
Lancashire since the creation of Greater Manchester.
-roy
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