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TN is definitely the Tonbridge not Tunbridge Wells area. The main sorting office used to be just downstream of Tonbridge station with its own platform.
TNer | 21.07.21 - 7:04 a.m. | #
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But yet Tunbridge Wells is TN1.
David | 21.07.21 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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This is exactly why I have been reading this blog for ages. Many thanks.
Chris | 21.07.21 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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Iād always assumed it was Tonbridge. Googling, opinion divides. Is there a definitive source?
David | 21.07.21 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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TN is definitely the Tunbridge Wells not Tonbridge area, because Tunbridge Wells town centre is TN1 and Tonbridge is only TN9.
not David | 21.07.21 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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The Royal Mail devised postcodes for their own convenience, and they give short shrift to anyone who asks for their postcode to be changed because it affects house prices, sends satnav users to the front door instead of the car park, or gets them refused access to services because their postcode makes it appear they live in the wrong borough. Some postcodes transcend national boundaries (TD - Galashiels, which includes Berwick, and SY - Shrewsbury, which includes much of mid-Wales as far as the coast). And residents of Caithness sometimes get charged for delivery to offshore islands because of their KW (Kirkwall,Orkney) postcode
timbo | 21.07.21 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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Fascinating stuff,DG!
I never knew I lived so near to the coast.......š
Jo W | 21.07.21 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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A super post. I like the way you come sneaking up on Biggin Hill, bringing in some tiny villages first. Biggin Hill is indeed a remarkable spot, absolutely London in some ways, but quite other in other ways. Some of my family live there, in a house with wonderful views.
And the TN postcode area is as rich as you describe. Classic DG.
Malcolm of Kent | 21.07.21 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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Fascinating. Looking at the postcode map, it would appear that a small part of Havering (CM13/14) shares the CM postcode area with the Essex coast in Southminster and some very rural areas.
Mikey C | 21.07.21 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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I was just looking up why it is Tonbridge with an O and Tunbridge Wells with a U. Apparently until 1870 the U spelling was used for both but the Post Office, then GPO, changed the spelling in order to avoid confusion between the two towns.
Also in the 1870s Cambridge Town was renamed Camberley by the GPO for the same reason. Im not aware of other towns that have been similarly renamed.
Martin | 21.07.21 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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Is TN Tonbridge or Royal Tunbridge Wells?
Consider the UB post code! Uxbridge Station's post code is UB8,
Southall Town Hall is UB1.
Mike Roberts | 21.07.21 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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Tonbridge or Tunbridge Wells? That's put the cat among the pigeons, or rather the pigeons among the seagulls!
Brilliant stuff!
Cornish Cockney | 21.07.21 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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Postie has a thankless task, not only places with the same or similar names in different counties, but places like Weston in East Devon, 7 miles from Weston ... in East Devon
scrumpy | 21.07.21 - 11:30 a.m. | #
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Well spotted on CM13/14, Mikey.
It looks like half a dozen houses on Warley Road have a CM13 postcode, and maybe a farm beside M25 J8 too...
...a postcode area shared with Maldon, Burnham-on-Crouch and the Dengie peninsula.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 21.07.21 - 12:47 p.m. | #
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear used to just be called Whitley but there was confusion with Whitby, North Yorkshire, particularly with post going to the wrong town.
A former Whitley resident who died in Edinburgh in 1901 asked for his body to be buried in his childhood home. After it was delivered to North Yorkshire, residents of Whitley voted for the town to be renamed Whitley Bay.
Philip Brown | Homepage | 21.07.21 - 2:09 p.m. | #
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I've always been a bit surprised that the isles of Eigg, Rum and Canna, well out into the Atlantic Ocean, have Perth (PH) postcodes.
Peter | 21.07.21 - 2:34 p.m. | #
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Does this mean I didn't leave London when I moved to TN31? Arse!
NiC | Homepage | 21.07.21 - 3:34 p.m. | #
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I once worked at the London Borough of Richmond Branch Library at Ham in Ham Street, Surrey. We often got post for the Ham Street which I believe is near Canterbury in Kent.
Tones | 21.07.21 - 5:09 p.m. | #
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The Small Isles (Canna, Eigg, Muck and Rum) are in the PH postcode area as their post is delivered via Mallaig and the traditional postal route to there was by rail via Perth and Fort William. Until recently the Western Isles post was delivered by air from Glasgow Airport which is in Paisley,PA postcode. Now PA91-99 have been changed to HS1-9. Other postal oddities occur near Kyle of Localsh as the post went to Applecross, Kylerhea and the Isle of Raasay by sea from Kyle and so were controlled by the local Head Post Master there.
Alan JS | 21.07.21 - 6:14 p.m. | #
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I would like the job of local Head Post Master. Sounds really important. Bit like the Royal Navy boss who is "First Sea Lord", but his Army equivalent is not called the "First Landlord"
scrumpy | 22.07.21 - 12:14 a.m. | #
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