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North South divide.
Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
Ilford & Romford are nominally Essex for Post Code purposes and most people assume they are in Essex but in fact they are in London Boroughs Huh ? The postcode system cares nothing for counties and nothing in outer Greater London has a London postcode. Depends what you mean by "outer Greater London". I live in Forest Gate in Newham and we're E7 and part of outer London on the political definition (strictly the boroughs that weren't in the Inner London Education Authority's remit; this mostly matched the old London County Council Area but part of Newham, namely North Woolwich, was a notable exception). * Walthamstow is E17. The E post codes go right up to the Greater London border and even beyond it in one direction, but stops rather short of it in another. Postal counties were abolished by the Royal Mail in the mid 1990s when technology changed how addresses were read (although a series patchwork of local government reforms at the time where some areas lost just the county council but others lost the lord lieutenancy as well can't have been greeted with pleasure). One can put any county they like on the mail although "London" also being a post town does complicate things (and the encouragement to write a post town all in UPPER CASE and the rest as normal hasn't caught on well), and I've sold things on eBay to places in Greater London but outside the LONDON post town with all manner of entries for county and even none. (* However the Office of National Statistics puts Newham, and also Harringey, in Inner London and Greenwich in outer London.) |
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