RG postcode area
Reading | |
|---|---|
  RG | |
| Coordinates: 51°24′11″N 1°02′06″W / 51.403°N 1.035°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Postcode area | RG |
| Postcode area name | Reading |
| Post towns | 12 |
| Postcode districts | 35 |
| Postcode sectors | 184 |
| Postcodes (live) | 23,146 |
| Postcodes (total) | 45,599 |
| Statistics as at May 2020[1] | |
The RG postcode area, also known as the Reading postcode area,[2] is a group of thirty postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of twelve post towns. These postcode districts cover west and central Berkshire (including Reading, Bracknell, Crowthorne, Hungerford, Newbury, Thatcham and Wokingham) and north Hampshire (including Basingstoke, Hook, Tadley and Whitchurch), plus a small part of south-east Oxfordshire (including Henley-on-Thames) and very small parts of Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire.
Mail for the area is sorted at the Thames Valley Mail Centre in Swindon. It was previously sorted at the Reading Mail Centre, which closed in 2010.
The original RG3 district for west Reading was recoded to RG30 and RG31 in January 1995, due to the rise in population in that area.[3] In the same year, the original RG11 district for Wokingham and Crowthorne was recoded to RG40, RG41 and RG45, while the northern part of the RG12 district for Bracknell was recoded to RG42.
Coverage
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:
Map
See also
References
- ^ "ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. May 2020. Table 2. Retrieved 19 Jun 2020. Coordinates from mean of unit postcode points, "Code-Point Open". OS OpenData. Ordnance Survey. February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
- ^ Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)
- ^ Royal Mail, Postcode Update 18, (1995)