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BD postcode area

postcode area within the United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4835394 ↗
Source-derived summary

The BD postcode area, also known as the Bradford postcode area, is a group of 24 postcode districts in England, within seven post towns. These cover northwestern West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Bingley, Shipley, Cleckheaton and Keighley) and southwestern North Yorkshire (including Skipton and Settle), plus very small parts of Lancashire.

Mail for the BD postcode area is processed at Leeds Mail Centre, along with mail for the HD, HG, HX, LS, WF and YO postcode areas.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “BD postcode area” as postcode area within the United Kingdom. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around postcode, area and within.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 76-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with postcode, area and within providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “BD postcode area”, the useful work is to connect “postcode area within the United Kingdom” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4835394. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “BD postcode area” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.