Regional Postcode Address File (PAF) Inner London

The Royal Mail’s UK Postcode Address File (PAF) universe, contains circa. 32 million UK addresses.   We have restructured and reformatted the file into manageable regional files, with each region containing a handful of postcode area files to represent a region; in this case Inner London.  An alternative download is the Greater London address file.  The Royal Mail’s PAF is without any contention the definitive most up-to-date and complete data source, covering every known delivery point in the UK.  

This Inner London address file consists of the following postcode areas; i.e. every deliverable residential & business address starting with the postcode area:

• E = East London (507,113 addresses / delivery points)
• EC = City of London (42,109 addresses / delivery points)
• N = North London (430,682 addresses / delivery points)
• NW = North West London (298,226 addresses / delivery points)
• SE = South East London (526,258 addresses / delivery points)
• SW = South West London (500,976 addresses / delivery points)
• W = West End, London (322,329 addresses / delivery points)
• WC = West Central London (29,504 addresses / delivery points)

Other regional downloads available: Scotland, Islands, Wales, East Anglia, North East, North West, Wales, South Central, South East, South West, Midlands, Greater London and Northern Ireland.  Alternatively you may just want to take the full UK file.

Applications

The Royal Mail’s 2,657,197 London Postcode Address File (PAF), is often used to capture, create and or maintain & clean in-house address lists.  This includes WEB registrations, forms and customer databases to reduce the number of returned or undelivered items from mailing programs.  Obviously, there are many more applications that you can use the PAF data for, including mailing, planning, leaflet distribution, logistics, navigation to name just a few!  This PAF download is the only official address database, and is provided by Royal Mail.   It is without any doubt the definitive, most up-to-date, and comprehensive address database available.

• Clean addresses
• Cheaper source as a mailing file
• Reduce postage costs through bulk mailing (e.g. Mailsort)
• Reduce the amount of undelivered mail
• Preservation of brand image
• Improved accuracy of customer and prospect analysis
• Great for analysis
• Perfect for grid referencing

• UDPRN (Royal Mail Unique Reference Number)
• Organisation Name (blank if residential address)
• Department Name (blank if residential address)
• PO Box (if applicable)
• Building / House Name (if applicable)
• Sub Building Name (if applicable)
• Building / House Number
• Thoroughfare
• Street / Road Name
• Double Dependent Locality
• Dependent Locality
• Post Town Name
• Postcode
• Postcode Type
• Delivery Point Suffix
• SU Organisation Flag (blank if residential)
• X Coordinate
• Y Coordinate
• Latitude
• Longitude