The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km2) to which mail addressed to ♣️ the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland ♣️ Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into ♣️ increasingly smaller postal units, with the early loss of two compass points and a minor retraction in 1866. It was ♣️ integrated by the Post Office into the national postcode system of the United Kingdom during the early 1970s and corresponds ♣️ to the E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W and WC postcode areas. The postal district has also been known ♣️ as the London postal area. The County of London was much smaller, at 117 square miles (300 km2), but Greater ♣️ London is much larger at 607 square miles (1,570 km2).
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Map of the original London ♣️ postal district in 1857
The Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand
