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CV postcode area

CV postcode area

Postcode area within the United Kingdom

The CV postcode area, also known as the Coventry postcode area,[2] is a group of 24 postcode districts in central England, within eleven post towns. These cover the eastern part of the West Midlands county (including Coventry), most of Warwickshire (including Atherstone, Bedworth, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton, Rugby, Shipston-on-Stour, Southam, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick), a part of west Leicestershire and a very small part of Northamptonshire.

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The postcode areas CV1 to CV6 incorporate the city of Coventry and its contiguous suburbs, with CV7 covering several rural and suburban villages to the immediate west and north of the city (where Coventry remains the post town), ie, the eastern portion of Solihull Borough and the southernmost areas of the Nuneaton & Bedworth District.

CV8 to CV47 covers all other post towns in the postcode area, to the north, south and east of Coventry (full coverage listed below).

The CV area borders seven other postcode areas : B (Birmingham), LE (Leicester), DE (Derby), NN (Northampton), WR (Worcester), GL (Gloucester) and OX (Oxford).

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

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The CV47 district was formed in 1999 from parts of the CV23 and CV33 districts.[3]

Map

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CV postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with links to nearby B, DE, GL, LE, NN, OX and WR postcode areas.

See also

References

  1. [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. [2]
    Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)
  3. [3]
    "Royal Mail Postcode Update 29". Beacon Dodsworth. Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
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