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Looking for the postcode for Norwich UK? The NR postcode area, also known as the Norwich postcode area is a group of postcode districts covering much of Norfolk and parts of the adjacent county of Suffolk in the East Anglian area of England.

The STD Telephone dialling code for Norwich UK is 01603.
If you are searching for the location of a Norwich postcode - enter the code in the search box below:

The postal codes used in the United Kingdom are known as postcodes. They are alphanumeric and were introduced by the Royal Mail over a 15-year period from October 1959 to 1974. A full postcode is known as a "postcode unit" and usually corresponds to a limited number of addresses or a single large delivery point. Postcode units consist of between five and seven characters, separated into two parts by a space; there are approximately 1.8 million postcode units.

The first part of the postcode unit is known as a "postcode district", or outward code, and usually corresponds to all or part of a post town. Postcode districts with the same one or two character prefixes are grouped into 124 postcode areas. Postcodes have been adopted for a wide range of purposes in addition to aiding the automating sorting of the mail; and are used to calculate insurance premiums, designate destinations in route planning software and are used as the lowest level of aggregation in census enumeration.

Postcode data are stored, maintained and periodically updated in the Postcode Address File database, along with the full address data for around 27.5 million delivery points. An earlier system of postal districts was implemented in London and other large cities from 1857. In London this system was refined in 1917 to include numbered subdivisions, extending to the other cities in 1934. These earlier districts were later incorporated into the national postcode system.
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It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Postcodes in the United Kingdom".

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