Towns in England by postcode

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Postcode Areas

Note: This content was 'lifted' from WikiProject England after much discussion on tidying up that page. Some of the content in this section is very out of date.

Update is in progress; Please leave sensible comments in the history if you make changes and as always, use the Talk section if you are unsure! Martin Renvoize 11:25, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

		%age complete
Postal Area	Town Name	Tracks	Mapped	Labelled	Notes
B72, 3, 4, 5, 6	Sutton Coldfield	100%	100%	100%	Sutton Coldfield is a town within the Birmingham conurbation.
BB1 & BB2	Blackburn, Lancashire				Major roads mapped, although junctions and turning restrictions may be incomplete. Majority of minor roads in town centre mapped.
BD	Bradford, Yorkshire
BB3	Darwen, Lancashire
BD23	Upper Wharfedale, Upper Airedale, North Yorkshire				Wharfedale: Bolton Abbey up river to Hubberholme/Yockenthwaite area. Includes Kilnsey, Conistone, Kettlewell, Grassington, Threshfield, Burnsall, Appletreewick. Country road structure and physical features complete. Villages and hamlets all mapped. Building and field digitisation on going. LOTS OF WORK ON FOOT AND BRIDLE PATHS STILL TO DO ... much is from out-of-copyright maps and needs walking and legal access needs verifying. Airedale:
BD24	Settle, North Yorkshire				Settle itself mapped by a mapping party in ?2009. LOTS OF WORK ON FOOT AND BRIDLE PATHS STILL TO DO ... much is from out-of-copyright maps and needs walking and legal access needs verifying.
BN	Brighton, Sussex
BN14	Worthing Broadwater				A few key streets missing which I will fill in over the next few weeks
BS	Bristol
BS35	Thornbury				Small town in South Gloucestershire, north of Bristol. The town and surrounding area is pretty well mapped now, just adding footpaths; the map is live here, on the Thornbury community website, with an OSM puff-piece page.
CB1-CB5	Cambridge		100%	100%	Systematic mapping of Cambridge between October 2006 and January 2007 means the City is now complete to the level of street names, all cycleways, key footpaths, and civic features (parks, commons, schools, churches, post offices). Cambridge page includes progress for South Cambridgeshire villages. --David.earl 10:35, 18 January 2007 (GMT)
CB6-CB7	Ely and East Cambridgeshire		100%	100%	Ely and Littleport complete as at April 2008, Soham underway. Ely page includes progress for other East Cambridgeshire towns and villages. David.earl 18:54, 8 April 2008 (BST)
CB11	Saffron Walden, Essex	65%	65%	65%	David.earl is systematically mapping Saffron Walden and vicinity.
CH	Chester	98%	98%	98%	Almost all roads city centre, in suburbs and in near-by villages mapped and named. Chrismorl 19:42, 22 Jul 2006 (BST)
CM1 & CM2	Chelmsford	~3%	~2%	~1%	The county town of Essex. Mapping has started. Ksbrowntalk 23:20, 29 April 2007 (BST)
CM11 & CM12	Billericay	~42%	~35%	~34%	Billericay is a town in Essex. Much of the north of the town is mapped. Ksbrowntalk 17:11, 16 April 2007 (BST)
CT1 & CT2	Canterbury	100%	100%	100%	CT2 to start with, and in particular I'm looking at the Hales Place area. However I'll collect data whenever I'm out to try fill in other areas of town. --Jammeh 20:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC) I'm concentrating on the cycle routes, and am also generally mapping areas of the city as and when I visit them. --Gregoryw 18:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC).
CT5	Whitstable	100%	100%	100%
CT6	Herne Bay	100%	100%	100%
CT14	Deal, Kent	100%	100%	100%
CV1	Coventry
CV8	Kenilworth
DE13	Fradley
DE14	Burton-on-Trent
DH1	Durham
DN	Retford, Nottinghamshire
E	London				Central London is very close to being fully mapped, largely thanks to the London mapping party in Jan '07, but we dont have the whole of zone 1 mapped quite yet. Greater London coverage is a bit patchy, with parts of SW London and N London looking more complete than the rest. London mapping should be greatly helped by the Yahoo! Aerial Imagery
EC	London				See 'E'
EH	Edinburgh
FY1-3	Blackpool	~10%	~10%	~10%	Trying to walk as many roads within a mile of Great Marton and also taking the GPS with me on journeys in the area to capture as much detail as possible. Will also try to cover main and some minor roads in St Annes, Lytham, Kirkham, Cleveleys, Thornton, Fleetwood as I drive around. Great Marton is now filling out with residential roads. Also reasonable coverage of roads between Blackpool and Kirkham. Having difficulty with road classifications. Some 4-digit A roads and even fairly minor B roads have green signs which should make them trunk routes! Packman 28 Sept 2007
G	Glasgow, Scotland
HG	Harrogate, North Yorkshire				Includes the towns of Harrogate, Ripon and Knaresborough.
HP20	Aylesbury	~15%	~10%	~15%	Undertaken some library research and due soon to "walk the bounds" of this postcode. Footsore Finder 15:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
HR	Hereford
HS1	Stornoway
HU	Kingston upon Hull	100%	100%	100%	Kingston Upon Hull (widely known as just Hull) has all of the public roads mapped, with most schools, churches, playing fields, allotments and some shops mapped. Many foot ways and cycle ways and other amenities are still to be completed. No bus stops or bus routes have been added yet.
IP7	Hadleigh, Suffolk				I've made a start at getting this small Suffolk town mapped, and will add more over the coming days MarkPostalk 7 November 2007
IP28 6A	Barton Mills, Suffolk	90%	90%	75%	Should be complete within a week or so.
KY12	Dunfermline
L	Liverpool	20%	10%	9%	Mcknut is a local and is trying to single-handedly map the whole thing ;-)
LA(1)	Lancaster				Including Lancaster University (Out of town)
LE	Leicester	15%	15%	15%	Most major roads now in place, individual districts now need fleshing out.
LE11	Loughborough	98%	98%	80%	Most of town nearly complete.
LN	Lincoln	30%	30%	29%	Ojw did about 6 hours of mapping there
LS	Leeds				including suburbs such as Headingley. Borders on Bradford, Otley and Ilkley
LS21	Otley	100%	100%	100%	MikeCollinson grew up here and mapping it as a nostalgia trip. On to buildings and fields now. Some fill in of surrounding hamlets still required. Rural footpaths only about 50% verified.
LS29	Ilkley	95%	95%	95%	Ilkley, Ben Rhydding, Burley-In-Wharfedale, Menston mostly mapped and verified. Addingham mapped but not fully verified. Footways mostly mapped from out-of-copyright maps so need to be walked and brought up to date with sign-posted legal designation.
M	Manchester				See also Mapchester for information on the mapping of Manchester.
ME1-ME5	Medway				See also Medway for information on the mapping of Medway.
MK40 MK41 MK42	Bedford	99% North, 80% South	99% North, 80% South	75% North, 75% South
N	London				See 'E'
NE	Newcastle	60%	60%	40%	Ojw visited briefly
NG1-NG11	Nottingham	15%	60%	45%	u76682, a newbie is embarking on this
NG10	Long Eaton	25%	20%	20%	u76682, a newbie is embarking on this
NG24	Newark-on-Trent	40%	40%	35%	Marcin Floryan currently living there, actively mapping the area
NW	London				Also see 'E'
OX	Oxford	75%	75%	50%
OX	Cotswolds - East	20%	15%	15%	The eastern side of the Cotswolds, drawing a line from Swindon north, and then everything east of that to Oxford
PE21	Boston, Lincolnshire
PE37	Swaffham	75%	75%		Swaffham in Norfolk, Needs the street names adding plus the final 25% missing on the sw side of town. Could also do to have the surrounding rural roads covered more fully. Blackadder 13:02, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
PL	Saltash, Cornwall	1%	10%	0%	Keith Thomson is outline mapping from yahoo imagery and will try and fill in detail on trips there.
PO	Portsmouth	50%	50%	1%	Large numbers of nodes and segments already created, but very few ways or labelling.
PO16	Portchester
PR	Preston, Lancs	10%	10%	10%	Much of SE Preston is now complete.
RG1, RG2, RG6	Reading	35%	25%	20%
RG24	Basingstoke
RH10	Crawley	60%	100%	100%	As of 2011, all roads believed complete. Building outlines added in some areas. Lots of addressing could still be added.
RH12	Horsham	70	100%	99%	2012 Roads believed complete except for one private road not correctly named yet. Very little addressing info. Some large new developments (1000 homes each) being built will need adding shortly.
RM15-21	Grays, Essex				Largely complete now (2008), but new developments continue to appear.
S40 - S45	Chesterfield				A and B roads are mostly complete. Much of the town centre and many residential roads mapped, but many still to do, especially in the surrounding areas.
SA	Swansea		20%	15%	South side is not bad, but mapping gets sparse to the North
SE	London				Also see 'E'
SE6	Catford	95+%	95+%	95+%	Catford in Lewisham, London. Including wards of Rushey Green, Catford South, Bellingham and half of whitefoot. Each ward appx 14,000 inhabitants therefore around 49,000 inhabitants.
SK23	Chapel-en-le-Frith(1),Whaley Bridge(2),Chinley(3) and Buxworth(4)	100%(1), 100%(2), 100%(3), 100%(4)	100%(1), 100%(2), 100%(3), 100%(4)	100%(1), 100%(2), 100%(3), 100%(4)	Chapel-en-le-Frith and Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, lie on the A6 trunk road between Buxton and Stockport. Chapel is a market town of about 6,000 people. Completed mapping in March 2007. Neighbouring town Whaley Bridge also enclosed by the A6 bypass (and the starting point of the Peak Forest Canal) completed, plus other nearby villages, notably Chinley and Buxworth. --David.earl
SL2	Slough	~5%	~5%	~1%	It looks as though the current data on Slough is based on runs up and down the A4, coupled with existing data on Motorways and Waterways. No matter. I'll be digging in as soon as I've selected a GPS unit ^_~ Darkshine 02:26, 3 Nov 2006 (GMT)
SO	Southampton				All classified roads done, I believe. Most through unclassified (highway=unclassified) roads are also done, though some are missing in the western areas like Millbrook and Shirley. Residential roads mostly done in the area bounded by The Avenue, Burgess Road, the A27 and West End Road, except Townhill Park (partial coverage only). Almost all roads are ways with name and highway tags; very few unwayed segments.
SO32	Hedge End & Botley				Botley is complete bar a few footpaths, In Hedge End, all of the major roads are done, just needs residential streets and all the closes mapping.
SR	Sunderland				Most major routes done, work on B roads progressing.
ST17	Stafford
SW	London				Also see 'E'
TN23-TN24	Ashford, Kent	80%	80%	25%
TS24-TS26	Hartlepool	70%	70%	70%	Just a few residential areas left, especially in the North...
W	London				Also see 'E'
WA	Warrington				South and East are quite sparse
WA8	Widnes				Part of Halton, near Liverpool
WC	London				Also see 'E'
WF	Wakefield				City just south of Leeds, to the SE of the intersection of the M1 & M62.
WF1	Central Wakefield, Agbrigg, Eastmoor, Newton Hill, Outwood	~99%	~99%	~99%	Complete except for FIXMEs
WF2	Lupset, Newmillerdam, Portobello, Sandal,Kettlethorpe, Wrenthorpe, Walton	~90%	~90%	~90%	Northern half has complete coverage southern half underway.
WF3	Bottomboat, Carlton, East Ardsley, Lofthouse, Moorhouse, Stanley	~99%	~99%	~99%	Complete except for FIXMEs
WF4	Durkar, Crigglestone, Chapelthorpe, Hall Green, Woolley	~10%	~10%	~10%	Durkar, Crigglestone, Chapelthorpe, Hall Green, Holingthorpe, Painthorpe complete.
WF6	Altofts, Normanton	100%	100%	100%	Altofts & Normanton complete.
WR	Worcester