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Now that Wimbledon fortnight is here the press are referring to Wimbledon as SW19 yet again! Why do they do this? Are there any other famous postcodes? Is any other place so closely associated with its postcode?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

E17

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

E17?
damn x-post

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Beverly Hills 90210 :P

― E.S.P (ipsofacto), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Mother Earth she's on overload
One more war and she might explode

etc.

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

damn, x-x-xpost, damn.

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't there a bad bad movie called "SW9"?

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Cmon! you know "W11 1JA" !

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe we should start referring to all of the famous British sporting venues by their postcodes!

For starters:

The Belfry B76
Twickenham TW1
Aintree L9
Millennium Stadium CA1

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

E20.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

H20

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

J20.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

strictly speaking, SW19 is a postal district rather than a post code. pedantry aside, however, NW3 springs to mind as on a par with SW19 in the 'famous' stakes.

also, Mark: what about your own neck of the woods? I recall a certain song by Ride...

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

W1N 4DJ

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

N., I remember when that changed. It used to be W1A 4WW.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but W1N 4DJ is cleverer.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

London W12 8QT. Best postcode ever.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

313 of course!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Olneyville 02909

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

SW1 2AA

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

N7.. ooh

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

W13.. ooh

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Sydney Olympic City 2000.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

the vatican!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Still deosn't tell us why the meeja are so keen on referring to Wimbledon by its postcode.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

it's like a nickname i guess. it's kinda cool.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

so people don't think it's in milton keynes

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

it's sponsored by insignia

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

am i crazy or wasn't the label 4AD named after their first office postcode?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

serena williams was once 18.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

erm, and also once 19

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

am i crazy or wasn't the label 4AD named after their first office postcode?

or did something important happen that year?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

E20 = Walford

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the republic in sheffield (home of gatecrahser) is at S1 somethingDJ, geddit, DJ?

they have written it in big letters on the side, fools

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

D12

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Crumlin massive!

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

For folks who remember their 70's game shows, most prizes seemed to come from: the Spiegel catalog - Chicago, 60609

― Mike Seg (Brainwash), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the abbey rd. postcode that's on the back of the album cover? that one.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Where is (and what happens of note) in SW 6?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

W11 1JA fules

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

SW6 is Fulham/Chelsea. It's a bit posh (see threads passim about Sloanes, rugby players etc.).

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

is pennsylvania 6 5000 a post code?

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

10048 = WTC complex
60606 (gasp!) = Sears Tower

― captain gay, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Pennsylvania 6 5000 is a phone number, isn't it?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Pennsylvania 6 - 5 Ground Zero ... baseball result?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

SW19 isn't just Wimbledon, it's also Colliers Wood. Slightly less glam.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

Not a famous postcode but it appears that HX4 has a disconnected island (Cow Lane)

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/West+Yorkshire+HX4/@53.676552,-1.9048372,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x487bc235f00ee4cf:0x49e82fb002b122ba

― anvil, Monday, 29 September 2014 16:24 (eleven years ago)

H0H 0H0

― ∞, Monday, 29 September 2014 19:14 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

V4G 1N4

welcome to delta, british columbia, canada

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Delta,+BC+V4G+1N4/

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 5 August 2018 16:12 (seven years ago)

OX4

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 5 August 2018 17:05 (seven years ago)

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