London Banter - View Single Post - [OT] Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode Address File

[email protected] · August 8th 10, 12:08 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article Xrl7o.19723$Ai7.18779@hurricane,
(Richard J.) wrote:

wrote on 07 August 2010 23:16:48 ...

To amplify my earlier comment on why their London data is utter oblox,
the use of counties in London is obsolete but they overlook completely
that each London postal district also has a name.

There is a name associated with each one* that explains its place
in the numerical order (because the numbers are based on
alphabetical order of the associated names), but I wouldn't go so
far as to say that each postcode *has* a name.

It would cause confusion for an address in Leadenhal Street EC3 to
give also the associated name for EC3 which is Fenchurch Street.
Is the E16 area still known as Victoria Docks, which is its
associated name?

* Except the "1" Head Districts (W1, SE1 etc.) also W2, SW11.

Possibly not in that example but it's been common all my life in SW15,
Putney, and SW19, Wimbledon, to my knowledge.

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Colin Rosenstiel