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Using the official English Indices of Deprivation, we ranked postcode districts from the most to the least deprived. The gap between a seaside town in Lancashire and the commuter belt of Surrey is wider than most people imagine.
Read MoreWe sorted all 43,000 settlements in our database by the endings of their names. The result traces the Viking frontier across England with startling precision: a thousand-year-old border you can still read on a road sign.
Read MoreWe mapped the birthplaces of more than 17,000 notable Britons against the towns they came from. London leads, of course, but the league table of which places produce the famous holds a few real surprises.
Read MoreThe long-running argument over England's highest village doesn't have a tidy answer. Our elevation data for every settlement in the country throws up 20 places sitting above 400 metres, from the lead-mining hamlets of the North Pennines to the windswept streets of Dartmoor.
Read MoreFrom Buckingham Palace to Coronation Street, some UK postcodes are more famous than the streets they serve. Here are the stories behind them.
Read MoreWhich 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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