Locating Postboxes

Search already located postboxes – enter a street name and area, or postcode:

Help locate unlocated postboxes – the Royal Mail supplied a list of every postbox’s location, but unfortunately, it did not have useful co-ordinates, only postcodes or sub-postcodes and some textual data. So I wrote this site: look up the postboxes near you by entering the first half of your postcode, locate one whose location you know on the map, pick which postbox you’ve located, and submit. The pages also include postbox last collection times, if we know them.

First half of postcode:

Recent: NE15, SL4, ST2, BH23, BA15, DY8, TQ9, EH22, SG12, SA2, PE19, NW1

Latest (numbers update hourly)

18,247 postboxes located; 1,694 prefixes started (1056 still to go), 586 at least 25% done, 246 at least 75% done, 156 all done

  • NE15 318 – NE159HQ | Alston Gardens | Newcastle Upon Tyne
  • SL4 88 – SL41 | River Street
  • ST2 544 – ST20PP | Wendling Close | Bentilee
  • BH23 20 – BH232BE | Barrack Road East
  • BA15 31 – BA152PZ | Pinkney Green
  • BA15 30 – BA152 | Farleigh Rise
  • BA15 21 – BA152 | Monkton Farleigh P.o.
  • BA15 5 – BA152 | Farleigh Wick
  • DY8 46 – DY81 | Wordsley Hospital
  • TQ9 4 – TQ95NP | Butterwalk | High Street
  • EH22 174 – EH22 | Woodburn Bank
  • SG12 139 – | Van Hage Garden Centre
  • SA2 13 – | Oakwood Road | Brynmill
  • SA2 118 – | Glanbrydan Avenue | Uplands
  • SA2 75 – | Cherry Grove | Derwen Fawr
  • PE19 275 – PE191LW | Barringer Way
  • SL4 43 – SL41LR | Guildhall High Street
  • SL4 4 – SL41PG | High Street Windsor | Barclays Bank
  • SL4 8 – SL41 | Thames Street | Windsor
  • NW1 333 – NW15PW | 333 Marylebone Station

Notes and useful links

  • Export the locations of all located postboxes: Just locations, added to the Royal Mail list, or subscribe to the RSS feed .
  • Thanks to Tom Taylor for making the request, Edward Betts for parsing it into TSV, Nick Burch for help and suggestions, npemap.org.uk for the partial postcode co-ordinates, OpenStreetMap for maps and postbox/ post office seeding, and Abi Broom for requesting the last collection times.
  • If you make a mistake in locating a postbox, just let me know.
  • You can add postboxes and their references to OSM – use a key of ref, and this site will automatically pick them up every week or so (currently not working due to XAPI brokenness, I'm afraid).
  • As postbox location is derived solely from the map (the list is simply to help prevent people locating the same postbox twice), and the simple fact of the geographic position of a postbox is not a copyrightable work, I believe the data can be licensed as public domain, and contributed to OpenStreetMap etc., as the location is not being derived from the list (the list is not good enough to do that :) ).

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