WC postcode area

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London WC postcode area

WC (United Kingdom) WC
Postcode area	WC
Postcode area name	London WC
Post towns	1
Postcode districts	15
Postcode sectors	45
Postcodes (live)	3,512
Postcodes (total)	7,033

Statistics as at October 2006 ^[1]

The WC (Western Central) postcode area, also known as the London WC postcode area^[2], is a group of postcode districts in central London, England. It includes parts of the London Borough of Camden, City of Westminster, London Borough of Islington and a very small part of the City of London. The area covered is of very high density development. Deliveries for WC1 and WC2 (and for W1) come from the Rathbone Place office.

The current postcode districts are relatively recent divisions of the WC1 and WC2 districts established in 1917. Where the districts are used for purposes other than the sorting of mail, such as use as a geographic reference and on street signs, they continue to be commonly grouped into these two 'districts'.

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postal districts:

Postcode district	Post town	Coverage	Local authority
WC1A	LONDON	New Oxford Street	Camden
WC1B		Bloomsbury, British Museum	Camden
WC1E		University College London	Camden
WC1H		St Pancras	Camden
WC1N		Great Ormond Street Hospital	Camden
WC1R		Gray's Inn	Camden
WC1V		High Holborn	Camden, City of London
WC1X		Kings Cross, Finsbury (west)	Camden, Islington
WC2A		Lincoln's Inn Fields, Royal Courts of Justice	Camden, Westminster, City of London
WC2B		Drury Lane, Aldwych	Camden, Westminster
WC2E		Covent Garden	Westminster
WC2H		Leicester Square	Camden, Westminster
WC2N		Charing Cross	Westminster
WC2R		Somerset House	Westminster
WC99		non-geographic

Adjacent areas

The adjacent postcode areas are (clockwise from east) - EC (London EC) - SE (London SE) - SW (London SW) - W (London W) - NW (London NW) - N (London N) .

Adjacent postcode areas
NW		N

W	WC	EC

SW		SE

References

1. ^ National Statistics, Postcode Directory Version Notes, (2006)
2. ^ Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide, (2004)

Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in London, England in the City of Westminster. With over 300 shops, it is Europe's largest shopping street.^[1]

It runs for approximately a mile and a half from Marble Arch at the north east corner of Hyde Park, through Oxford
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Bloomsbury

OS grid reference TQ305825
Region London
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LONDON
Postcode district WC1
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The British Museum

Established 1754
Location Great Russell Street, London WC1, England
Collection size 13+ million objects
Museum area 13.5 acres/ 588,000 ft²/ 94 Galleries^[1]
Visitor figures 4,600,000 (2005–2006)^[2]
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University College London, commonly known as UCL, is the oldest multi-faculty constituent college of the University of London, one of the two original founding colleges, and the first British University to be founded on a non-religious basis.
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St Pancras

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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust

Location
Place Bloomsbury London, England, (UK)

Organisation
Care System Public NHS
Hospital Type Teaching

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The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England to which barristers belong and where they are called to the bar. The others are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Lincoln's Inn.
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High Holborn is a road in Holborn in central London, England. It starts in the west near St Giles' Circus, then goes east, past Bloomsbury Street, the Kingsway and Southampton Row, and continues east. The road becomes Holborn at the junction with Gray's Inn Road.
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City of London

Coat of arms
Motto: Domine dirige nos Latin: Lord, guide us
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Kings Cross

UK Parliament Holborn and St. Pancras
London Assembly Barnet and Camden
European Parliament London
List of places: UK • England UK • London

Kings Cross
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Finsbury

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Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London. It is thought to have been one of the inspirations of Central Park, New York. It was laid out in part by Inigo Jones from the early 17th century and opened to the public after its acquisition by London County Council in
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Royal Courts of Justice, commonly called the Law Courts, is a building in London that houses the Court of Appeal and the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. Courts within the building are open to the public although there may be some restrictions depending upon the
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City of Westminster

Shown within Greater London
Geography
Status London borough
City (1540)
Area
— Total Ranked 346th
21.
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This article is about the street in London; Drury Lane is also the name of a well-known theatre on that street and of a fictional detective created by Ellery Queen writing as Barnaby Ross.

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Aldwych is a place and road in the City of Westminster in London. The road is a crescent, connecting to The Strand on the west side, and Fleet Street on the east. At its centre it meets the Kingsway.
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Covent Garden is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden. The area is dominated by shopping, street performers and entertainment facilities and contains an entrance to the
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