United Kingdom Area Codes ?

[+keiko]

In August of this year my wife and I will be visiting, (our first time over seas) in the Elham, Kent area (Southeast of London). We are retired and enjoy Geocaching around our home in Northern California, USA and are looking forward to a few cache finds in the UK. I have maps of the area but am not able to find area Zip codes in order to search for other caches in other towns. Is there a web site that a person can go to that will display Zip codes for a town ?? Any help will be appreciated, and happy Caching to all !!

 

Thank you

 

Jack & BJ (Keiko)

Edited February 23, 2005 by keiko

[+klaus23]

This site could be a good start. I'm sure there would be locals in Kent or Greater London willing to help with postcodes, not to mention caching recommendations. Edited February 23, 2005 by klaus23

[+Kitty Hawk]

The site that Klaus recommends sems good, it gives you the initial area code for each town, so Elham is CT4.

 

All our postcodes (Zipcodes) have a second 3 digit part that is 1 number and 2 letters.

 

Choose your town code from Klaus site, then add 1BA or 1AB. These two codes nearly always exist - so then do a zipcodes search on GC.com for CT4 1BA and you have a search around Elham.

 

Another useful resource for UK caching is geocacheuk.com as it will accept most town names as the search point.

 

Good luck

[+Hi-Tek]

Hi

 

If you use Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK) it has a post code 'centre' facility wher it will show the nearest caches to a UK post code.

 

Enjoy your trip.

[+dysdera]

I know if you are using tom tom there is a POI database with postcodes if that helps

[+Alibags]

Go to uk Streetmap (www.streetmap.co.uk) link. You can search for any town, village or street. When you have done so, there is a link ( a small and discreet link) below the map that you get from you initial search which shows you conversions to British OS grid reference, Lat and Long and also nearest UK Postcode.

 

I use this all the time. For example, if I was going to Edinburgh, I may do a search for Prince's Street. There are LOTS of these in the UK, but you only get two hits for Edinburgh. Select one of these and get your map. Click on the link and I find the postcode "EH2 2DJ"

 

For some reason, their WGS84 is only given to two final places (seconds?) and not three, which is why I prefer to use postcode. You are only searching for nearby, not for exactly on that spot anyhow, so postcode will be good enough.

[+Boneychest & Catsuey]

You can "search by town" at Geocacheuk.com GUK: Caches. Not every town and village is listed but I have always found it easy to find a town in the database that is close enough to where I want to go caching. The results list links to the main cache listings on Geocaching.com

 

Enjoy your stay

[+klaus23]

Hi

 

If you use Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK) it has a post code 'centre' facility wher it will show the nearest caches to a UK post code.

 

Enjoy your trip.

erm... so does geocaching.com

[+ribel]

A couple of sites that may prove useful:

 

UK Postcode Map (gives a broad idea of where UK postcode regions)

 

Postcode/Coordinates (gives a grid reference and coordinates for most UK postcodes (the 1st part anyway)

 

Sean

[+naffita]

I found the easiest way is to look up a hotel in the town you want, their address includes the postcode. Elham hotel gives you CT4 6TD.

[+Madyokel]

You can always do a postcode search at www.multimap.com which will get you close and has always seemed accurate to me. I know (as Klaus pointed out) that geocache.com does a post code search but for some reason it places me about 2.5 miles west of my real post code position.

Regards