Latitude: 54.5439 / 54°32'37"N
Longitude: -1.921 / 1°55'15"W
OS Eastings: 405208
OS Northings: 516517
OS Grid: NZ052165
Mapcode National: GBR HH0W.XX
Mapcode Global: WHB4L.G1GX
Plus Code: 9C6WG3VH+HH
Maidenhead Locator System: IO94an90
What Three Birds: ibis.cowbird.capercaillie
Marker point and cooordinate accuracy: Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean.
DL12 8JQ is a large user postcode in Barnard Castle, County Durham. It was first introduced in January 1980.
'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:
Wm Smith & Sons (Barnard Castle) Ltd, Grove Works, Queen Street, Barnard Castle DL12 8JQ.
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.
Barnard Castle is a town, which had a population of 7,040 in the 2011 census.
DL12 8JQ is in the Durham and Bishop Auckland travel to work area. NHS services are provided by the County Durham Primary Care Trust.
DL12 8JQ is approximately 166m (545ft) above sea level.
Office of National Statistics Output Area Classification for the area containing DL12 8JQ
7a2: Constrained City Dwellers - Challenged Diversity - Hampered Aspiration
Office of National Statistics Rural/Urban classification for DL12 8JQ
England D1: a small town or larger village, surrounded by populated countryside
Healthy Living Index
3/10 (Low)
Neighbourhood Retail Diversity Index
8/10 (High)
Area Retail Diversity Index
1/10 (Very low)
Supermarkets near DL12 8JQ include Co-Operative Food and Morrisons. (Source: OpenStreetMap)
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Residents of DL12 8JQ 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.
Unitary Authority
Durham County Council
Ward
Barnard Castle East
Councillors
George Richardson (Conservative)
James Rowlandson (Conservative)
United Kingdom Parliament
Constituency
Bishop Auckland
MP
Dehenna Davison (Conservative)
Ofcom publishes annual statistics for Broadband availability. This is the most recent data for DL12 8JQ.
The most recent Ofsted rankings for schools near DL12 8JQ.
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