The Postcode Alphabet: Britain Ranked by First Letter
S starts 238,668 postcodes. Z starts 661, every one of them in Shetland. And three letters of the alphabet have never started a British postcode at all.
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How Many Homes Share Your Postcode?
The national answer is about 15. But in Mayfair a postcode covers fewer than 2 households, while in East Ham one code is shared by more than 30. Here is why.
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SAD, MAD and PEAR: The Postcodes That Accidentally Spell Words
Strip the numbers out of a postcode and you are left with its letters. Across 1.8 million postcodes, those letters spell SAD 163 times, MAD 128 times and PEAR 101 times.
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Outcode and Incode: The Complete Anatomy of a British Postcode
Seven characters take a letter from anywhere in the world to one front door in Britain. Here is how the machine works: every segment of the postcode explained, measured across all 1.8 million of them.
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Famous UK Postcodes and the Stories Behind Them
From Buckingham Palace to Coronation Street, some UK postcodes are more famous than the streets they serve. Here are the stories behind them.
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The UK's Most and Least Dense Postcode Areas
Which parts of the UK pack the most postcodes into the smallest space? We analysed our database of 1.8 million postcodes to find out.
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