EH42 1 postcode sector in the EH42 district
EH42 1 is a sector of the EH42 district: every postcode that starts EH42 1. It has 362 postcodes in use, 3 of them large-user postcodes. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.
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Every postcode in the EH42 1 sector, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 15
- In use before 2020: 347
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 362 postcodes in the EH42 1 sector that ONS places, 15 are new since 2020 and 347 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
The 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH42 1BW, is the newest of them.
Postcodes in EH42 1
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Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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