Coordinates: 51°39′18″N 0°23′53″W / 51.655°N 0.398°W / 51.655; -0.398

Watford postcode area
WD
Postcode area	WD
Postcode area name	Watford
Post towns	7
Postcode districts	13
Postcode sectors	69
Postcodes (live)	7,704
Postcodes (total)	14,552
Statistics as at October 2006 [1]

The WD postcode area, also known as the Watford postcode area^[2], is a group of 13 postal districts around the town of Watford in Hertfordshire, England. The main sorting office is in Watford (Ascot Road WD18) and it is divided into seven post towns.

The WD3 district also covers the north western extremity of London - a small and mostly unpopulated protrusion of Harefield in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It also extends into the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire to include the village of Chenies.

Contents 1 Coverage 2 Recoding 3 Adjacent areas 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postal districts:

Postal district	Post town	Coverage	Local authority
WD3	RICKMANSWORTH	Batchworth Heath, Chandlers Cross, Chenies, Chorleywood, Croxley Green, Heronsgate, Loudwater, Maple Cross, Mill End, Rickmansworth, Sarratt, West Hyde	Three Rivers, London Borough of Hillingdon, Chiltern
WD4	KINGS LANGLEY	Bucks Hill, Chipperfield, Hunton Bridge, Kings Langley	Dacorum, Three Rivers
WD5	ABBOTS LANGLEY	Bedmond, Abbots Langley	Three Rivers
WD6	BOREHAMWOOD	Borehamwood, Elstree, Well End	Hertsmere
WD7	RADLETT	Shenley, Radlett	Hertsmere
WD17	WATFORD	Watford, Cassiobury, Nascot Wood	Watford
WD18	WATFORD	West Watford	Watford, Three Rivers
WD19	WATFORD	Oxhey, South Oxhey, Carpenders Park	Watford, Three Rivers
WD23	BUSHEY	Bushey, Bushey Heath	Hertsmere, Watford
WD24	WATFORD	North Watford	Watford
WD25	WATFORD	Garston, Aldenham, Leavesden, Letchmore Heath	Watford, Hertsmere, Three Rivers

[edit] Recoding

In September 2000 districts WD17-18 and WD23-25 were created from the recoding of the WD1 and WD2 districts. BUSHEY is a new post town; having previously been part of the WD2 district of WATFORD. This was due to postcode exhaustion of WD1 and WD2 ^[3]

[edit] Adjacent areas

The adjacent postcode areas are (clockwise from east) - EN (Enfield) - HA (Harrow) - UB (Southall) - SL (Slough) - HP (Hemel Hempstead) - AL (St Albans) .

Adjacent postcode areas AL HP WD EN SL UB HA

[edit] See also

• List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom

[edit] References