CR postcode area

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Croydon
Postcode area
CR is located in the United Kingdom
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Coordinates: 51°21′22″N 0°05′56″W / 51.356°N 0.099°W / 51.356; -0.099
CountryUnited Kingdom
Postcode area
CR
Postcode area name
Croydon
Post towns10
Postcode districts11
Postcode sectors66
Postcodes (live)7,906
Postcodes (total)14,632
Statistics as at May 2020[1]

The CR postcode area, also known as the Croydon postcode area,[2] is a group of eight postcode districts in England, within ten post towns. These cover parts of southern Greater London and north-east Surrey.

The main sorting office is in Croydon, and the area served includes most of the London Borough of Croydon, the southeastern part of the London Borough of Merton and small parts of the London Boroughs of Sutton and Bromley. Most of CR3 and CR6 cover the northern part of the Tandridge district of Surrey, and the southern part of CR5 covers a small part of the borough of Reigate and Banstead.

Croydon was the second town, after Norwich, to have experimental postcodes, introduced in 1966. This trialled the postcode area CRO (letter 'O'), while Norwich used NOR for its equivalent. It was decided that the outward (first) part of a postcode should be alphanumerical, so CRO became CR0 (with a zero) and NOR became NR1. The CR1 postcode has not been introduced, making CR the only postcode area with a district 0 but not a district 1.

Originally there were only the districts CR0, CR2, CR3 and CR4 - in the 1990s CR5 was split from CR2, CR6 and CR8 were split from CR3, and CR7 from CR4.

The CR0 postcode district covers the largest population in the UK.[3]

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

Postcode district Post town Coverage Local authority area(s)
CR0 CROYDON Croydon, Addiscombe, Woodside (part), Selhurst, Broad Green, Spring Park, Shirley, Addington, New Addington, Coombe, Forestdale, Waddon, Beddington, Thornton Heath (part), Valley Retail and Leisure Park, Mitcham Common (part) Croydon, Sutton
CR2 SOUTH CROYDON South Croydon, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Forestdale, part of Addington Croydon
CR3 CATERHAM Caterham, Chaldon, Woldingham Croydon, Tandridge
WHYTELEAFE Whyteleafe
CR4 MITCHAM Mitcham, Mitcham Common, Pollards Hill (part), Eastfields (part) Croydon, Merton, Sutton
CR5 COULSDON Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon, Chipstead, Hooley, Netherne-on-the-Hill, part of Woodmansterne, Clockhouse, part of Little Woodcote Croydon, Reigate and Banstead, Sutton
CR6 WARLINGHAM Warlingham, parts of Chelsham and Farleigh, Hamsey Green Bromley, Croydon, Tandridge
CR7 THORNTON HEATH Thornton Heath, Broad Green (part), Pollards Hill (part) Croydon, Merton
CR8 PURLEY Purley, Russell Hill, Reedham, London Croydon, Sutton, Tandridge
KENLEY Kenley
CR9 CROYDON non-geographic
CR44 CROYDON Jobcentre Plus non-geographic
CR90 CROYDON non-geographic

Delivery offices

Delivery offices are located at Croydon, South Croydon, Caterham, Mitcham, Coulsdon, Thornton Heath and Purley.[4]

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CR postcode area map, showing postcode districts, post towns and neighbouring postcode areas.BR postcode areaKT postcode areaKT postcode areaRH postcode areaSE postcode areaSE postcode areaSE postcode areaSM postcode areaSW postcode areaTN postcode area
CR postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with links to nearby BR, KT, RH, SE, SM, SW and TN postcode areas.

See also

References

  1. ^ "ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. May 2020. Table 2. Retrieved 19 June 2020. 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. ^ "FOI request: Population for every postcode district in England and Wales". The National Archives. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "List of UK Delivery Offices - a Freedom of Information request to Royal Mail Group Limited" (PDF). 10 February 2009.