CR postcode area
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Population | Template:Fix comma category |
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| Postcode area | CR |
| Postcode area name | Croydon |
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| Post towns | 10 |
| Postcode districts | 11 |
| Postcode sectors | 66 |
| Postcodes (live) | 7,906 |
| Postcodes (total) | 14,632 |
| Statistics as at May 2020[1] | |
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The CR postcode area, also known as the Croydon postcode area,[2] is a group of eight postcode districts in England, within ten post towns. These cover parts of southern Greater London and north-east Surrey.
The main sorting office is in Croydon, and the area served includes most of the London Borough of Croydon, the southeastern part of the London Borough of Merton and small parts of the London Boroughs of Sutton and Bromley. Most of CR3 and CR6 cover the northern part of the Tandridge district of Surrey, and the southern part of CR5 covers a small part of the borough of Reigate and Banstead.
Croydon was the second town, after Norwich, to have experimental postcodes, introduced in 1966. This trialled the postcode area CRO (letter 'O'), while Norwich used NOR for its equivalent. It was decided that the outward (first) part of a postcode should be alphanumerical, so CRO became CR0 (with a zero) and NOR became NR1. The CR1 postcode has not been introduced, making CR the only postcode area with a district 0 but not a district 1.
Originally there were only the districts CR0, CR2, CR3 and CR4 - in the 1990s CR5 was split from CR2, CR6 and CR8 were split from CR3, and CR7 from CR4.
The CR0 postcode district covers the largest population in the UK.[3]
Coverage
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:
Delivery offices
Delivery offices are located at Croydon, South Croydon, Caterham, Mitcham, Coulsdon, Thornton Heath and Purley.[4]
Map
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See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. May 2020. Table 2. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Coordinates from mean of unit postcode points, Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Code-Point Open". OS OpenData. Ordnance Survey. February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
- ^ Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FOI request: Population for every postcode district in England and Wales". The National Archives. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."List of UK Delivery Offices - a Freedom of Information request to Royal Mail Group Limited" (PDF). 10 February 2009.
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