Glasgow postcode area | |
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Postcode area | G |
Postcode area name | Glasgow |
Post towns | 6 |
Postcode districts | 57 |
Postcode sectors | 241 |
Postcodes (live) | 31,614 |
Postcodes (total) | 45,221 |
Statistics as at February 2012 |
Postcode district boundaries: Bing / Google
The G postcode area, also known as the Glasgow postcode area, is a group of postcode districts around Alexandria, Clydebank, Dumbarton, Glasgow and Helensburgh in Scotland.
From 1923 until the introduction of the national postcode system in the late 1960s, Glasgow was divided into (mostly) numbered postal districts for its central and surrounding parts identified by compass-point letters: C1–C5 (corresponding to current postcode districts G1–G5), W1–W5 (G11–G15), NW (G20), N1–N3 (G21–G23), E1–E4 (G31–G34), SE (G40), S1–S6 (G41–G46) and SW1–SW3 (G51–G53).
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: