UB postcode area

The UB postcode area, also known as the Southall postcode area,[2] is a group of eleven postcode districts in England, within six post towns. These cover parts of western and north-western Greater London, plus a very small part of Buckinghamshire. The letters in the postcode are derived from an abbreviation of Uxbridge.

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Southall postcode area
UB
Postcode areaUB
Postcode area nameSouthall
Post towns6
Postcode districts12
Postcode sectors41
Postcodes (live)7,145
Postcodes (total)11,011
Statistics as at February 2012[1]

The main sorting office is in Greenford (Green Park Way) and the area served includes much of the London Borough of Hillingdon and the western part of the London Borough of Ealing, while the western part of UB9 covers a small part of the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, the southern part of UB2 covers a very small part of the London Borough of Hounslow, and a very small part of UB5 lies within the London Borough of Harrow.

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

Postcode district Post town Coverage Local authority area
UB1 SOUTHALL Southall (north) Ealing
UB2 SOUTHALL Southall (south), Norwood Green Ealing, Hounslow
UB3 SOUTHALL non-geographic[3][4]
UB3 HAYES Hayes (south), Harlington Hillingdon
UB4 HAYES Hayes (north), Yeading Hillingdon
UB5 GREENFORD non-geographic[3][5]
UB5 NORTHOLT Northolt Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon
UB6 GREENFORD Greenford, Perivale Ealing
UB7 WEST DRAYTON West Drayton, Harmondsworth, Sipson, Yiewsley, Longford Hillingdon
UB8 WEST DRAYTON non-geographic[3][6]
UB8 UXBRIDGE Uxbridge, Cowley, Hillingdon (part) Hillingdon
UB9 UXBRIDGE Denham, Harefield Hillingdon, South Bucks
UB10 UXBRIDGE Hillingdon, Ickenham Hillingdon
UB11 UXBRIDGE Stockley Park Hillingdon
UB18 GREENFORD Spring International non-geographic[3][7]

Map
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HA postcode areaHP postcode areaNW postcode areaSL postcode areaTW postcode areaW postcode areaWD postcode areaWD postcode area
UB postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with links to nearby HA, SL, TW, W and WD 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. "Non Geographic Codes" (PDF). Royal Mail Address Management Unit. July 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 September 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  4. "New sectors and localities to 14 December 2012" (PDF). Royal Mail Address Management Unit. 20 December 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  5. "New sectors and localities to 16 November 2012" (PDF). Royal Mail Address Management Unit. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  6. "New sectors and localities to 19 October 2012" (PDF). Royal Mail Address Management Unit. 19 October 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  7. UB18 includes a series of postcodes where, unusually, the last two letters correspond to the ISO country code for various countries in the trading name of the address, such as "Spring France, GREENFORD, UB18 7FR". Royal Mail – Find an address
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