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Dudley | |
|---|---|
  DY | |
| Coordinates: 52°27′11″N 2°10′52″W / 52.453°N 2.181°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Postcode area | DY |
| Postcode area name | Dudley |
| Post towns | 8 |
| Postcode districts | 14 |
| Postcode sectors | 59 |
| Postcodes (live) | 10,962 |
| Postcodes (total) | 14,419 |
| Statistics as at May 2020[1] | |
The DY postcode area, also known as the Dudley postcode area,[2] is a group of fourteen postcode districts in England, within eight post towns. These cover the south-western part of the West Midlands (including Dudley, Tipton, Brierley Hill, Stourbridge and Kingswinford) and north Worcestershire (including Kidderminster, Bewdley and Stourport-on-Severn), plus the south-westernmost part of Staffordshire and a small part of south-east Shropshire.
Mail for this area is sorted, along with mail for the adjacent WV postcode area, at the North West Midlands Mail Centre in Wolverhampton.
- ^ "ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. May 2020. Table 2. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Coordinates from mean of unit postcode points, "Code-Point Open". OS OpenData. Ordnance Survey. February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
- ^ Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)