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2013: UK Postcode Areas

This year’s card is based on UK postcode areas. Each place in the message code is a post town and represents its postcode area and thus the initial letter of the area’s two-letter code.

Front page

This translates as:

Post town	Postcode	Postcode area	Letter
Stornoway	HS	Outer Hebrides	H
Hatfield	AL	St Albans	A
Bognor Regis	PO	Portsmouth	P
Campbeltown	PA	Paisley	P
Whitby	YO	York	Y
Shipston-on-Stour	CV	Coventry	C
Stanmore	HA	Harrow	H
East Grinstead	RH	Redhill	R
Saxmundham	IP	Ipswich	I
Llanwrda	SA	Swansea	S
Coldstream	TD	Galashiels [Teviotdale]	T
Bedford	MK	Milton Keynes	M
Harpenden	AL	St Albans	A
Windsor	SL	Slough	S

– giving:

Inside page

This translates as:

Post town	Postcode	Postcode area	Letter
Welwyn Garden City	AL	St Albans	A
Hexham	NE	Newcastle upon Tyne	N
Weymouth	DT	Dorchester	D
Enniskillen	BT	Northern Ireland [Belfast]	B
Linlithgow	EH	Edinburgh	E
Hitchin	SG	Stevenage	S
Middlesbrough	TS	Cleveland [Teesside]	T
Dewsbury	WF	Wakefield	W
Douglas	IM	Isle of Man	I
Aberystwyth	SY	Shrewsbury	S
Holmfirth	HD	Huddersfield	H
Budleigh Salterton	EX	Exeter	E
Andover	SP	Salisbury [Salisbury Plain]	S
Lytham St. Annes	FY	Blackpool [The Fylde]	F
Rochdale	OL	Oldham	O
Gatwick	RH	Redhill	R
Penzance	TR	Truro	T
Beverley	HU	Hull	H
Waltham Cross	EN	Enfield	E
Towcester	NN	Northampton	N
Peebles	EH	Edinburgh	E
Rugeley	WS	Walsall	W
Scarborough	YO	York	Y
Potters Bar	EN	Enfield	E
Fraserburgh	AB	Aberdeen	A
Dagenham	RM	Romford	R
Stirling	FK	Falkirk	F
Henley-on-Thames	RG	Reading	R
Witney	OX	Oxford	O
Coatbridge	ML	Motherwell	M
Littlehampton	BN	Brighton	B
Newbury	RG	Reading	R
Strathpeffer	IV	Inverness	I
Peterhead	AB	Aberdeen	A
Abergavenny	NP	Newport	N
Beckenham	BR	Bromley	B
Stonehaven	AB	Aberdeen	A
Upminster	RM	Romford	R
St. Andrews	KY	Kirkcaldy	K
Axminster	EX	Exeter	E
Basingstoke	RG	Reading	R

– giving:

In order to prevent the code from being trivial, I clearly had to avoid using the principal places in each postcode areas, the initial letters of whose names would generally have matched the letter being encoded.

Once again, I chose some place names as having connections to some of my cards’ recipients.

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Version 4: Revised 24 December 2017
Brian Barker