FY postcode area

The FY postcode area, also known as the Blackpool postcode area,[2] is a group of eight postcode districts in North West England, within five post towns. These cover most of the Fylde plain (to which the letters in the postcode refer) in west Lancashire, including Blackpool, Thornton-Cleveleys, Poulton-le-Fylde, Fleetwood and Lytham St Annes.

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Blackpool postcode area
FY
Postcode areaFY
Postcode area nameBlackpool
Post towns5
Postcode districts9
Postcode sectors42
Postcodes (live)7,241
Postcodes (total)9,647
Statistics as at February 2012[1]

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

Postcode district Post town Coverage Local authority area
FY0 BLACKPOOL non-geographic
FY1 BLACKPOOL Blackpool Town Centre, North Shore, South Shore Blackpool
FY2 BLACKPOOL Bispham, Moor Park Blackpool
FY3 BLACKPOOL Grange Park, Layton, Marton, Staining, Stanley Park Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre
FY4 BLACKPOOL Marton, South Shore, Squires Gate, Starr Gate Blackpool, Fylde
FY5 THORNTON-CLEVELEYS Anchorsholme, Little Bispham, Skippool, Thornton-Cleveleys Wyre, Blackpool
FY6 POULTON-LE-FYLDE Carleton, Poulton-le-Fylde, Hambleton, Knott End-on-Sea, Preesall, Singleton, Stalmine Wyre, Fylde, Blackpool
FY7 FLEETWOOD Fleetwood, Rossall Wyre
FY8 LYTHAM ST. ANNES Lytham St. Annes, Moss Side Fylde

Some regions of the FY5 postcode area such as Little Bispham and Anchorsholme are generally considered to be suburbs of Blackpool due to being in that town's unitary authority area, despite having the Thornton-Cleveleys post town.

Map
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PR postcode area
FY postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with link to nearby PR postcode area.

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)
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