PostView Samples

PostView Points Simple:

PostView Points Simple gives the grid reference and longitude and latitude coordinates for every available UK postcode to the nearest 100m.

PostcodeEastNorthQualityLongitudeLatitude
YO1 0AJ

460000

451800

3 -1.08706736564636 53.95881652832030

PostView Points Complex:

PostView Points Complex gives more detail that PostView Points Simple, providing you with post town, locality and county data.
Longitude and latitude coordinates can also be supplied with this data. This level of detail allows you to conduct postcode to town searches or find the postcode area a known place name is within.

PostcodeEastNorthQualityPostcodeArea
YO1 0AJ

460000

451800

3 YO
PostTownLocalityCountyLongitudeLatitude
YORK York -1.08706736564636 53.95881652832030

PostView Places:

When you simply wish to identify the postcode sector a known place name is in (for use in a GIS or website for example), we offer PostView Places.

SectorEastNorthNameCountyLongitudeLatitude
YO23 1

459596

450040

Nunthorpe York -1.09196923830308 53.9428364931899

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FAQs

Postcode geography explained

YO23 2UE: Every address in the UK has a postcode shared between, on average, 15 houses.

YO23 2: All addresses sharing the same sector code fill a geographic area defined by a postcode sector boundary (around 3000 houses).

YO23: All postcode sectors with the same district code are grouped to form a postcode district boundary.There are 3,078 districts in the UK.

YO: All postcode districts with the same area code can be grouped to form a postcode area boundary.The country is divided into 124 areas, each containing around 24 districts.

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