HP postcode area

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::summary Postcode area within the United Kingdom ::

The HP postcode area, also known as the Hemel Hempstead postcode area, is a group of twenty-four postcode districts in England, within eleven post towns. These cover south-west Hertfordshire (including Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring) and central Buckinghamshire (including Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Amersham, Chalfont St Giles, Chesham, Great Missenden and Princes Risborough).

Mail for this area is sorted at the Home Counties North Mail Centre in Hemel Hempstead.

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Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

|- ! HP1 | HEMEL HEMPSTEAD | Bourne End, Boxmoor, Chaulden, Fields End, Gadebridge, Great Gaddesden, Nettleden, Piccotts End, Water End, Warner's End

Dacorum
! HP2
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
Gaddesden Row, Piccotts End, Grovehill, Adeyfield, Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate
Dacorum
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! HP3
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
Apsley, Bovingdon, Felden, Flaunden, Hemel Hempstead, Leverstock Green
Dacorum
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! HP4
BERKHAMSTED
Berkhamsted, Dagnall, Dudswell, Little Gaddesden, Northchurch, Potten End, Ringshall
Dacorum, Buckinghamshire
-
! HP5
CHESHAM
Chesham, Ashley Green, Bellingdon, Botley, Chartridge, Hawridge, Latimer, Lye Green, Newtown, Waterside, Whelpley Hill
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP6
AMERSHAM
Amersham (north), Chesham Bois, Hyde Heath, Little Chalfont (north)
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP7
AMERSHAM
Amersham (south), Coleshill, Little Chalfont (west and centre), Little Missenden, Penn Street, Winchmore Hill
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP8
CHALFONT ST. GILES
Chalfont St Giles, Little Chalfont (south)
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP9
BEACONSFIELD
Beaconsfield, Forty Green, Holtspur, Jordans, Knotty Green, Seer Green
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP10
HIGH WYCOMBE
High Wycombe, Flackwell Heath, Handy Cross, Hedsor, Loudwater, Penn, Tylers Green, Wooburn, Wooburn Green, Wooburn Moor
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP11
HIGH WYCOMBE
Wycombe Marsh
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP12
HIGH WYCOMBE
High Wycombe, Booker, Sands
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP13
HIGH WYCOMBE
High Wycombe, Downley, Totteridge
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP14
HIGH WYCOMBE
Beacon's Bottom, Bledlow Ridge, Bolter End, Bradenham, Cadmore End, Hughenden Valley, Ibstone, Lane End, Naphill, Northend, Stokenchurch, The City, Upper North Dean, West Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP15
HIGH WYCOMBE
Cryers Hill, Great Kingshill, Hazlemere, Holmer Green, Hughenden Valley
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP16
GREAT MISSENDEN
Great Missenden, Ballinger, The Lee, Little Hampden, Little Kingshill, Prestwood, South Heath
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP17
AYLESBURY
Aston Sandford, Bishopstone, Butler's Cross, Dinton, Dorton, Ellesborough, Ford, Great and Little Kimble, Kingsey, Haddenham, Meadle, Nash Lee, Stone, Upton, Westlington
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP18
AYLESBURY
Ashendon, Berryfields, Boarstall, Brill, Chearsley, Chilton, Cuddington, Dorton, Easington, Edgcott, Grendon Underwood, Ickford, Kingswood, Long Crendon, Lower Winchendon, Ludgershall, Oakley, Shabbington, Upper Winchendon, Waddesdon, Westcott, Worminghall, Wotton Underwood
Buckinghamshire
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! HP19
AYLESBURY
Aylesbury, Berryfields, Buckingham Park, Fairford Leys, Prebendal Farm, Quarrendon, Watermead
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP20
AYLESBURY
Aylesbury, Aylesbury Town Centre, Broughton, Elmhurst
Buckinghamshire
-
! HP21
AYLESBURY
Aylesbury, Bedgrove, Elm Farm, Queens Park, Southcourt, Walton, Walton Court
Buckinghamshire
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! HP22
AYLESBURY
Aston Abbotts, Aston Clinton, Bierton, Buckland, Drayton Beauchamp, Dunsmore, Halton, Hardwick, Hulcott, North Lee, Nup End, Oving, Pitchcott, Quainton, Rowsham, Stoke Mandeville, Weedon, Wendover, Weston Turville, Whitchurch, Wingrave
Buckinghamshire
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! HP23
TRING
Aldbury, Buckland Common, Cholesbury, Hastoe, Long Marston, Marsworth, New Mill, Puttenham, St Leonards, Tring, Wigginton, Wilstone
Dacorum, Buckinghamshire
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! HP27
PRINCES RISBOROUGH
Askett, Bledlow, Ilmer, Lacey Green, Longwick, Loosley Row, Monks Risborough, Owlswick, Pitch Green, Princes Risborough, Saunderton, Speen
Buckinghamshire
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References

References

1. Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)
2. (July 2012). "Non Geographic Codes". Royal Mail Address Management Unit.
3. (20 December 2012). "New sectors and localities to 14 December 2012". Royal Mail Address Management Unit.

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