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UK Postcodes and Town Names: 1.8 million postcodes and 1,661 Post Towns.  This Postcodes to Town Names file has been extracted from the very latest Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail information and is updated quarterly.  The file represents every UK town, i.e. it covers Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Islands (including Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides, and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland etc.).  The Postcode to Town file is available as a Comma Separated Variable (CSV) text based file and quarterly updates are included in the licence fee.

Postcode to Town - Product Specifics

Delivery: Automatic Download from Purchase
File Size: 4.44 MB (4,659,627 bytes) WinZip Compressed
Volume: 1,743,288 records / rows/ postcodes
Fields: (see specification for list)
Format: Comma Separated Variable (CSV)
Compatibility: MS Access, MS Excel 2007 and any other application with text import
Coverage: UK.
Updates: Includes quarterly updates within licensed period.
Licences: 12 months use before re-purchase required  
Restrictions: Terms & Conditions.

File Content

Field 1, Postcode Area (example UB); there are 124 areas in the UK
Field 2, Postcode District (example UB7); there are 2,827 districts in the UK
Field 3, Postcode Sector (example UB7 7); there are 9,487 sectors in the UK
Field 4, Full Postcode (example UB7 7JY); there are 1.656 million postcodes in the UK
Field 5, Post Town Name; there are 1,661 post towns in the UK

Note

The Postcode to Town Name file contains a high number of records / rows.  To make this file more manageable the product that you download may have been segmented into several smaller files that when combined represents the full  postcode file.