WD postcode area

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Watford postcode area
WD
Postcode area WD
Postcode area name Watford
Post towns 7
Postcode districts 14
Postcode sectors 70
Postcodes (live) 7,520
Postcodes (total) 15,321
Statistics as at February 2012[1]

The WD postcode area, also known as the Watford postcode area,[2] is a group of eleven postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of seven post towns. These postcode districts mostly cover south-west Hertfordshire and a small parts of Buckinghamshire and Greater London.

The main sorting office is at the Home Counties North Mail Centre in Hemel Hempstead, having been at the Watford Mail Centre until its closure in 2011.[3] The area covered includes all of the borough of Watford, most of the Three Rivers district, the western part of the Hertsmere district and small parts of the Dacorum and St Albans districts. WD3 also covers the village of Chenies in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire, as well as the north-western extremity of Greater London - a small and mostly unpopulated protrusion of Harefield in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

Postcode district Post town Coverage Local authority area
WD3 RICKMANSWORTH Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Croxley Green, Loudwater, Mill End, Maple Cross, Sarratt, Batchworth, Chenies, Harefield (part), West Hyde, Heronsgate, Chandler's Cross Three Rivers, Chiltern, Hillingdon
WD4 KINGS LANGLEY Kings Langley, Chipperfield, Hunton Bridge, Rucklers Lane, Bucks Hill Dacorum, Three Rivers
WD5 ABBOTS LANGLEY Abbots Langley, Bedmond Three Rivers, St Albans
WD6 BOREHAMWOOD Borehamwood, Elstree, Well End Hertsmere
WD7 RADLETT Radlett, Shenley Hertsmere, St Albans
WD17 WATFORD Watford town centre, Cassiobury, Nascot Wood Watford
WD18 WATFORD West Watford, Holywell Watford
WD19 WATFORD Oxhey, South Oxhey, Carpenders Park Three Rivers, Watford
WD23 BUSHEY Bushey, Bushey Heath Hertsmere, Watford
WD24 WATFORD North Watford Watford
WD25 WATFORD Garston, Leavesden, Aldenham, Letchmore Heath Watford, Hertsmere, Three Rivers, St Albans
WD99 WATFORD Jobcentre Plus non-geographic

Recoding

In September 2000 districts WD17-19 and WD23-25 were created from the recoding of the WD1 and WD2 districts. BUSHEY is a new post town; having previously been part of the WD2 district of WATFORD. This was due to postcode exhaustion of WD1 and WD2 [4] Another reason for the postcode revision was the old WD2 area included Bushey with North Watford. Bushey was to all intents a section of Watford sorting office up until 2000, all mail for WD2 was cut and tipped at Watford office. To change this new codes were created to enable direct bags to be opened at Bushey delivery office. Local union reps claim (archaic) that the reason Bushey Delivery Office was included with Watford was so Watford postal workers would attract outer London weighting as Bushey was in the London Metropolitan Police area at the time.

Bushey was created as a post town so that the Bushey Delivery Office could directly receive bags of mail. Up until this point, all mailbags for the old WD2 postcode area, which included Bushey and North Watford, were cut and tipped at Watford Mail Centre. At one point during the 1970s, the night sorting was done at Watford and then delivered by van during the small hours. One reason for this long-winded procedure was to ensure that Watford postal workers received London weighting payments, as Bushey was in the London Metropolitan Police area at the time.

Map

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WD postcode area map, showing postcode districts, post towns and neighbouring postcode areas. AL postcode area EN postcode area HA postcode area HP postcode area N postcode area NW postcode area SL postcode area UB postcode area
WD postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with links to nearby AL, EN, HA, HP, NW, SL and UB postcode areas.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. February 2012. Table 2. Retrieved 21 April 2012. Coordinates from mean of unit postcode points, "Code-Point Open". OS OpenData. Ordnance Survey. February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)
  3. ↑ http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/8714230.Strikes__ruled_out__after_Royal_Mail_closes_Watford_depot/
  4. ↑ Royal Mail - Postcode Update 31 (September 2000)
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