Latitude: 51.271 / 51°16'15"N
Longitude: 0.5187 / 0°31'7"E
OS Eastings: 575793
OS Northings: 155439
OS Grid: TQ757554
Mapcode National: GBR PR6.CXV
Mapcode Global: VHJMD.YB20
Plus Code: 9F327GC9+9F
Maidenhead Locator System: JO01gg25
What Three Birds: skua.auk.woodlark
Marker point and cooordinate accuracy: Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean.
ME16 8EQ is a large user postcode in Maidstone. It was first introduced in October 1984.
'Large User' postcodes are allocated to organisations which receive large amounts of post. Unlike standard geographic postcodes, which cover up to 80 addresses, a large user postcode is unique to a single address.
To the best of our knowledge, the current address of this postcode is:
Maidstone Combined Court, Barker Road, Maidstone ME16 8EQ.
The geographic coordinates assigned to a large user postcode may not necessarily be the actual coordinates of the location to which mail is delivered. If the address is a PO Box, then the coordinates will usually be the Royal Mail sorting office which handles mail for that postcode. In other cases, the coordinates of the postcode may be the headquarters, or registered office, of an organisation rather than the building which receives mail.
Commercial rateable values range from £1,550 to £1,140,000 with an average of £570,775. The most common recorded business types are Law Court and Mooring.
Maidstone is a town, which had a population of 107,627 in the 2011 census.
ME16 8EQ is in the Medway travel to work area. NHS services are provided by the West Kent Primary Care Trust.
ME16 8EQ is approximately 10m (33ft) above sea level.
Office of National Statistics Output Area Classification for the area containing ME16 8EQ
2c1: Cosmopolitans - Comfortable Cosmopolitans - Migrant Families
Office of National Statistics Rural/Urban classification for ME16 8EQ
England C1: a town or city, surrounded by populated countryside
Healthy Living Index
8/10 (High)
Neighbourhood Retail Diversity Index
8/10 (High)
Area Retail Diversity Index
6/10 (Moderate)
Supermarkets near ME16 8EQ include Aldi, Co-Operative Food, Lidl, M&S Simply Food, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose. (Source: OpenStreetMap)
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Residents of ME16 8EQ are represented at different levels of local, regional and national government by elected representatives. Where known, these are shown here.
This data is updated approximately monthly, and may not necessarily take account of the results of any elections or by-elections held recently.
District Council
Maidstone Borough Council
Ward
Fant
Councillors
Patrick Coates (Labour)
Margaret Rose (Labour)
Paul Harper (Labour)
County Council
Kent
Electoral Division
Maidstone Central
County Councillors
Tom Cannon (Conservative)
Chris Passmore (Liberal Democrat)
United Kingdom Parliament
Constituency
Maidstone and The Weald
MP
Helen Grant (Conservative)
Ofcom publishes annual statistics for Broadband availability. This is the most recent data for ME16 8EQ.
Broadband statistics for commercial properties are less reliable than for domestic properties, as businesses are more likely to have other forms of Internet access that are not classified as 'Broadband'.
The most recent Ofsted rankings for schools near ME16 8EQ.
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