Watford | |
|---|---|
  WD | |
| Coordinates: 51°39′40″N 0°23′24″W / 51.661°N 0.390°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Postcode area | WD |
| Postcode area name | Watford |
| Post towns | 7 |
| Postcode districts | 14 |
| Postcode sectors | 70 |
| Postcodes (live) | 7,344 |
| Postcodes (total) | 15,889 |
| Statistics as at May 2020[1] | |
The WD postcode area, also known as the Watford postcode area,[2] is a group of eleven postcode districts in south-east England, within seven post towns. These cover south-west Hertfordshire (including Watford, Rickmansworth, Borehamwood, Kings Langley, Abbots Langley, Bushey and Radlett), plus very small parts of Buckinghamshire and Greater London.
Mail for this area is sorted at the Home Counties North Mail Centre in Hemel Hempstead, having been sorted at the Watford Mail Centre until its closure in 2011.[3] The area covered includes all of the borough of Watford, most of the Three Rivers district, the western part of the Hertsmere district and small parts of the Dacorum and St Albans districts. WD3 also covers the village of Chenies in Buckinghamshire, plus a small protrusion of Harefield in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)
- ^ Pickard, Michael (1 December 2010). "Strikes 'ruled out' after Royal Mail closes Watford depot". Watford Observer. Retrieved 22 April 2018.