[Talk-GB] addressing (was addr:place)

[Andy Robinson]

Tom, you are right, so what is the TA or EN in your examples called by RM?

Cheers
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hughes [mailto:tom at compton.nu] 
Sent: 27 October 2014 10:07
To: Andy Robinson; 'Andy Street'; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: addressing (was addr:place)

On 27/10/14 09:24, Andy Robinson wrote:

> Are the postal towns not the town that is represented by the first part of the postcode? So CW for Crewe for instance. My parents live in Swaffham in Norfolk but Royal Mail have them is Cambridgeshire with a PE (Peterborough) postcode.

Not at all. My postcode is EN for Enfield, but my post town is Hoddesdon, that being where the delivery office is for my part of the EN district.

I believe that EN11 8/9/0 all have Hoddesdon as post town - not sure if it goes wider than that.

Likewise my parents have a TA postcode for Taunton, but their post town is Crewkerne.

Tom

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