{"id":94608597,"date":"2011-10-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/what-s-in-a-postcode\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:19:46","slug":"what-s-in-a-postcode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/what-s-in-a-postcode\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a Postcode?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where Are You Headed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Soon into conducting the research for any British vacation after booking London flights<\/a><\/strong>, you’ll most certainly come across the UK’s strange letter-number combinations attached to the end of many street addresses. EC1, SW7, WC2 \u2013 what do these mean? Essentially, their purpose is no different than that of US zip codes. However, the good news is that \u2013 in the case of London anyway \u2013 the postcode can inform you to a large extent about which part of London a place is located.<\/p>\n

Postcodes are used to identify specific areas of London. As you might expect, \u201cE\u201d as the first character in a postcode stands for east, \u201cN\u201d stands for north, \u201cS\u201d for south and \u201cW\u201d for west. \u201cSE\u201d would then obviously mean \u201csouth-east\u201d and so forth. Perhaps not quite as intuitive, \u201cC\u201d as a second letter in a postcode means \u201ccentral.\u201d So, for example, a postcode beginning with \u201cWC\u201d would indicate the location with a WC postcode is in west central London<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But that’s just the first half of the equation, and admittedly the most important for folks just hoping to get a general idea of where a particular place happens to be situated. A postcode always has two sections, an outward and inward code separated by a blank space. The outward code is first bit as characterized above while the inward code follows it with a mix of letters and numbers narrowed down to an even more specific area such as a particular street or neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

A few postcodes areas worth noting for most visitors are as follows:
\nE20: Stratford, site of the London 2012 Olympic Village;
\nEC1: Clerkenwell with its thriving pub and restaurant scene;
\nEC2: Bank, Barbican and Liverpool Street \u2013 location of London’s financial district;
\nEC3: Tower Hill and Aldgate \u2013 home of the Tower of London and the north side of Tower Bridge;
\nEC4: St. Paul’s, Blackfriars and Fleet Street \u2013 St Paul’s Cathedral;
\nNW1: Camden Town, home to the famous Camden Market;
\nSE10: World famous Greenwich;
\nSW1: St. James’s, Westminster, Victoria, Pimlico and Belgravia \u2013 St James’s Park, Green Park, Buckingham Palace;
\nSW7: Knightsbridge and South Kensington home of Harrods, upscale restaurants and shopping;
\nSW19: Wimbledon;
\nW1: Chinatown, Fitzrovia, Hyde Park, Marylebone, Mayfair, Piccadilly, Soho, West End;
\nW11: Notting Hill \u2013 Portobello Market;
\nWC1: Bloomsbury, home to the British Museum and King’s Cross – St Pancras Station;
\nWC2: Covent Garden, Holborn, and the Strand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where Are You Headed?   Soon into conducting the research for any British vacation after booking London flights, you’ll most certainly come across the UK’s strange letter-number combinations attached to the end of many street addresses. EC1, SW7, WC2 \u2013 what do these mean? Essentially, their purpose is no different than that of US zip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201594,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608597\/revisions\/97201594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}