CO postcode area

Colchester postcode area
CO
Postcode area CO
Postcode area name Colchester
Post towns 9
Postcode districts 16
Postcode sectors 66
Postcodes (live) 12,847
Postcodes (total) 16,416
Statistics as at October 2006 [1]

The CO postcode area, also known as the Colchester postcode area,[2] is a group of postcode districts around Bures, Clacton-on-Sea, Colchester, Frinton-on-Sea, Halstead, Harwich, Manningtree, Sudbury and Walton-on-the-Naze in England.

The main sorting office is in Colchester. Though the area is based in Essex, it also covers a small part of south Suffolk.

Contents

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

Postcode district Post town Coverage Local authority area
CO1-CO6 COLCHESTER Colchester Colchester Borough
CO7 COLCHESTER Wivenhoe, Great Bentley Colchester Borough, Tendring District
CO8 BURES Bures Colchester Borough, Braintree District, Babergh District
CO9 HALSTEAD Halstead Braintree District
CO10 SUDBURY Sudbury Babergh District
CO11 MANNINGTREE Manningtree Tendring District
CO12 HARWICH Harwich Tendring District
CO13 FRINTON-ON-SEA Frinton-on-Sea Tendring District
CO14 WALTON ON THE NAZE Walton-on-the-Naze[3] Tendring District
CO15-CO16 CLACTON-ON-SEA Clacton-on-Sea Tendring District

Adjacent areas

Adjacent postcode areas
CB IP
CO
CM

Clockwise from the east, the adjacent postcode areas are: , CM (Chelmsford), CB (Cambridge), IP (Ipswich).

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Statistics Postcode Directory" (PDF). Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory (November 2006). Office for National Statistics. November 2006. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/downloads/NSPDVersionNotes.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-29. 
  2. ^ Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)
  3. ^ The post town is unhyphenated.

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