imported>Anangrycorgi: /* Coverage */Added Ecclesfield to the list of S5 parishes/coverage

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{{short description|Postcode area within the United Kingdom}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox UK postcode area|area_code=S}}
The '''S postcode area''', also known as the '''Sheffield postcode area''',<ref>Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)</ref> is a group of [[postcode]] districts in England, which are subdivisions of eight [[post town]]s. These cover most of [[South Yorkshire]] (including [[Sheffield]], [[Barnsley]], [[Rotherham]] and [[Mexborough]]), parts of north [[Derbyshire]] (including [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]], [[Dronfield]] and the [[Hope Valley, Derbyshire|Hope Valley]]) and north-west [[Nottinghamshire]] (including [[Worksop]]), plus a small part of [[West Yorkshire]]. The S postcode area is one of six with a population above 1 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/freedom-of-information/previous-foi-requests/people--population-and-community/population-for-every-postcode-district-in-england-and-wales/index.html |title=FOI request: Population for every postcode district in England and Wales |website=The National Archives |access-date=26 April 2021 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/freedom-of-information/previous-foi-requests/people--population-and-community/population-for-every-postcode-district-in-england-and-wales/index.html |archive-date=5 January 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==History==
For 1857–1868 an ''S sector'' of the [[London postal district]] existed.

Similarly, there were also S-prefixed postal districts in the compass-based system used in Glasgow: ''Glasgow S1, S2, S3 and S4'', which later became G41 to G44.

Three postcode districts were split and separated into ten new postcode districts. These were:
*S20, formed out of ''S19''. The code was changed while the area remained the same to avoid confusion as the sectors were redrawn.
*S21, S25 and S26, formed out of ''S31''.
*S32 to S36, formed out of ''S30''.

The S64 district covering the Mexborough post town was originally earmarked for use as [[DN postcode area|DN13]], which has never been used.

==Coverage==
As with many postcode areas in the United Kingdom, the S Area is numbered in various clusters. S1-S14 cover the core urban area of [[Sheffield]], with S17-S36 covering more suburban or rural areas within Sheffield's environs. Postcodes in the range S4x relate to the [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]] area. The range S6x relates to [[Rotherham]]. S7x relates to [[Barnsley]], and S8x relates to [[Worksop]]. Any other postcodes prefixed S are non-geographic in nature.

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:
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'''S1-S36: SHEFFIELD, DRONFIELD and HOPE VALLEY Post Towns'''
{{postcode area table start}}
|-
! S1
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Sheffield City Centre|City Centre]]
| [[City of Sheffield|Sheffield]]
|-
! S2
| SHEFFIELD
|City Centre, [[Arbourthorne]], [[Heeley]], [[Highfield, South Yorkshire|Highfield]], [[Lowfield]], [[Manor, South Yorkshire|Manor]], [[Gleadless Valley|Newfield Green]], [[Norfolk Park]], [[Park Hill, Sheffield|Park Hill]], [[Wybourn]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S3
| SHEFFIELD
|City Centre, [[Sheffield Central ward#Broomhall|Broomhall]], [[Burngreave]], [[Neepsend]], [[Netherthorpe, Sheffield|Netherthorpe]], [[Pitsmoor]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S4
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Brightside, Sheffield|Brightside]], [[Burngreave]], [[Grimesthorpe]], [[Burngreave_(ward)#Osgathorpe|Osgathorpe]], [[Page Hall]], [[Pitsmoor]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S5
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Ecclesfield]], [[Firth Park]], [[Fir Vale]], [[Longley, Sheffield|Longley]], [[Shirecliffe]], [[Shiregreen]], [[Southey, South Yorkshire|Southey]], [[Parson Cross]], [[Wincobank]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S6
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Bradfield, Sheffield|Bradfield]], [[Dungworth]], [[Fox Hill, South Yorkshire|Fox Hill]], [[Hillsborough, Sheffield|Hillsborough]], [[Holdworth]], [[Hollow Meadows]], [[Loxley, Sheffield|Loxley]], [[Malin Bridge]], [[Middlewood, Sheffield|Middlewood]], [[Stannington, Sheffield|Stannington]], [[Storrs, South Yorkshire|Storrs]], [[Upperthorpe, Sheffield|Upperthorpe]], [[Wadsley]], [[Wadsley Bridge]], [[Walkley]], [[Wisewood]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S7
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Beauchief]], [[Carter Knowle]], [[Millhouses]], [[Nether Edge]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S8
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Batemoor]], [[Beauchief]], [[Greenhill, South Yorkshire|Greenhill]], [[Jordanthorpe]], [[Beauchief and Greenhill|Lowedges]], [[Meadowhead]], [[Meersbrook]], [[Graves Park (ward)|Norton]], [[Norton Lees]], [[Woodseats]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S9
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Attercliffe]], [[Shiregreen and Brightside|Brightside]], [[Darnall]], Handsworth Hill, [[Meadowhall (shopping centre)|Meadowhall]], [[Tinsley, South Yorkshire|Tinsley]], [[Wincobank]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S10
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Sheffield Central ward#Broomhall|Broomhall]], [[Broomhill (ward)|Broomhill]], [[Crookes]], [[Crookesmoor]], [[Crosspool]], [[Endcliffe]], [[Fulwood, South Yorkshire|Fulwood]], [[Lodge Moor]], [[Ranmoor]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S11
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Bents Green]], [[Carter Knowle]], [[Ecclesall]], [[Ecclesall#Greystones|Greystones]], [[Millhouses]], [[Nether Edge]], Parkhead, [[Ringinglow]], [[Sharrow]], [[Whirlow]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S12
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Frecheville]], [[Gleadless]], [[Hackenthorpe]], [[Intake, Sheffield|Intake]], [[Ridgeway, Derbyshire|Ridgeway]]
| [[North East Derbyshire]], Sheffield
|-
! S13
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Handsworth, South Yorkshire|Handsworth]], [[Normanton Spring]], [[Orgreave, South Yorkshire|Orgreave]], [[Richmond, South Yorkshire|Richmond]], [[Woodhouse, South Yorkshire|Woodhouse]], [[Woodthorpe, South Yorkshire|Woodthorpe]]
| [[Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham|Rotherham]], Sheffield
|-
! S14
| SHEFFIELD
| [[Gleadless Valley]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S17
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Bradway]], [[Dore, South Yorkshire|Dore]], [[Totley]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S18
| DRONFIELD
|[[Dronfield]], [[Holmesfield]], [[Unstone]]
| North East Derbyshire
|-
! S20
| SHEFFIELD
| [[Beighton, Sheffield|Beighton]], [[Crystal Peaks]], [[Halfway, South Yorkshire|Halfway]], [[Mosborough]], [[Owlthorpe]], [[Plumbley]], [[Sothall]], [[Waterthorpe]], [[Westfield, Sheffield|Westfield]]
| Sheffield
|-
! S21
| SHEFFIELD
| [[Eckington, Derbyshire|Eckington]], [[Killamarsh]], [[Marsh Lane, Derbyshire|Marsh Lane]], [[Middle Handley]], [[Renishaw, Derbyshire|Renishaw]], [[Spinkhill]], [[Troway]], [[West Handley]]
| North East Derbyshire
|-
! S25
| SHEFFIELD
| [[Anston]], Brookhouse, [[Dinnington, South Yorkshire|Dinnington]], [[Laughton en le Morthen]], [[Slade Hooton]]
| Rotherham
|-
! S26
| SHEFFIELD
| [[Aston, South Yorkshire|Aston]], [[Aughton, South Yorkshire|Aughton]], [[Harthill, South Yorkshire|Harthill]], [[Kiveton Park]], [[Swallownest]], [[Todwick]], [[Ulley]], [[Wales, South Yorkshire|Wales]], [[Waleswood]], [[Woodall, South Yorkshire|Woodall]]
| Rotherham
|-
! S32
| HOPE VALLEY
|[[Abney, Derbyshire|Abney]], [[Bretton, Derbyshire|Bretton]], [[Calver]], [[Curbar]], [[Eyam]], [[Foolow]], [[Grindleford]], [[Hathersage]], [[Leam, Derbyshire|Leam]], [[Stoney Middleton]]
| [[Derbyshire Dales]]
|-
! S33
| HOPE VALLEY
|Aston, [[Bamford]], [[Barber Booth]], [[Bradwell, Derbyshire|Bradwell]], [[Castleton, Derbyshire|Castleton]], [[Edale]], [[Hope, Derbyshire|Hope]], [[Thornhill, Derbyshire|Thornhill]], [[Yorkshire Bridge]]
| [[High Peak, Derbyshire|High Peak]]
|-
! S35
| SHEFFIELD
| [[Chapeltown, South Yorkshire|Chapeltown]], Crane Moor, [[Ecclesfield]], [[Green Moor]], [[Grenoside]], Hermit Hill, [[High Green]], [[Oughtibridge]], [[Thurgoland]], [[Wharncliffe Side]], [[Wortley, South Yorkshire|Wortley]], [[Worrall]]
| Sheffield, Barnsley
|-
! S36
| SHEFFIELD
|[[Bolsterstone]], [[Carlecotes]], [[Catshaw]], [[Crow Edge]], [[Deepcar]], [[Dunford Bridge]], [[Hoylandswaine]], [[Ingbirchworth]], [[Langsett]], [[Midhopestones]], [[Millhouse Green]], [[Oxspring]], Snowden Hill, [[Stocksbridge]], [[Penistone]], [[Thurlstone]], [[Upper Midhope]], [[Wigtwizzle]]
| Barnsley, Sheffield
|-
|}

'''S40-S49: CHESTERFIELD Post Town'''
{{postcode area table start}}
|-
! S40
| CHESTERFIELD
|Town Centre, [[Boythorpe]], [[Birdholme]], [[Brampton, Derbyshire|Brampton]]
| [[Borough of Chesterfield|Chesterfield]]
|-
! S41
| CHESTERFIELD
|[[Corbriggs]], [[Hasland]], [[Newbold, Derbyshire|Newbold]], [[Old Whittington]], [[Sheepbridge]], [[Spital, Derbyshire|Spital]], [[Tapton, Derbyshire|Tapton]], Whittington Moor, [[Winsick]]
| Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire
|-
! S42
| CHESTERFIELD
|[[Alton, Derbyshire|Alton]], [[Cutthorpe]], [[Eastmoor]], [[Grassmoor]], [[Holmewood]], [[Holymoorside]], [[Ingmanthorpe, Derbyshire|Ingmanthorpe]], [[North Wingfield]], [[Temple Normanton]], [[Tupton]], [[Wadshelf]], [[Walton, Chesterfield|Walton]], [[Wingerworth]]
| Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire
|-
! S43
| CHESTERFIELD
|[[Barlborough]], [[Barrow Hill, Derbyshire|Barrow Hill]], [[Brimington]], [[Clowne]], [[Hollingwood]], [[Inkersall Green]], [[Poolsbrook]], [[Mastin Moor]], [[Staveley, Derbyshire|Staveley]]
| [[Bolsover District|Bolsover]], Chesterfield
|-
! S44
| CHESTERFIELD
|[[Arkwright Town]], [[Ault Hucknall]], [[Bolsover]], [[Calow]], [[Doe Lea]], [[Heath]], [[Oxcroft]], Rowthorne, [[Scarcliffe]], [[Shuttlewood]], [[Stanfree]], [[Stansby]], [[Sutton cum Duckmanton]], [[Sutton Scarsdale]]
| Bolsover, North East Derbyshire
|-
! S45
| CHESTERFIELD
| [[Ashover]], [[Astwith]], [[Clay Cross]], [[Hardstoft]], [[Kelstedge]], [[Littlemoor]], [[Milltown, Derbyshire|Milltown]], [[Pilsley, North East Derbyshire|Pilsley]], [[Slack, Derbyshire|Slack]], Uppertown
| North East Derbyshire
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|S49
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|CHESTERFIELD
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''Bulk users''
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''
|-
|}

'''S60-S66: ROTHERHAM and MEXBOROUGH Post Towns'''
{{postcode area table start}}
|-
! S60
| ROTHERHAM
|Town Centre, [[Brinsworth]], [[Catcliffe]], [[Canklow]], [[Clifton, Rotherham|Clifton]], [[Masbrough]], [[Treeton]], [[Waverley, South Yorkshire|Waverley]], [[Whiston, South Yorkshire|Whiston]]
| Rotherham
|-
! S61
| ROTHERHAM
|[[Greasbrough]], [[Kimberworth]], [[Rockingham, South Yorkshire|Rockingham]], [[Scholes, South Yorkshire|Scholes]], [[Thorpe Hesley]]
| Rotherham
|-
! S62
| ROTHERHAM
|[[Abdy]], [[Nether Haugh]], [[Parkgate, South Yorkshire|Parkgate]], [[Rawmarsh]], [[Wentworth, South Yorkshire|Wentworth]]
| Rotherham
|-
! S63
| ROTHERHAM
| [[Bolton-on-Dearne]], [[Goldthorpe]], [[Thurnscoe]], [[Brampton Bierlow]], [[Wath-on-Dearne]], [[West Melton]]
| [[Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley|Barnsley]], Rotherham
|-
! S64
| MEXBOROUGH
|[[Adwick Upon Dearne]], [[Kilnhurst]], [[Mexborough]], [[Swinton, South Yorkshire|Swinton]]
| [[Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster|Doncaster]], Rotherham
|-
! S65
| ROTHERHAM
|[[Dalton, South Yorkshire|Dalton]], [[East Dene]], Eastwood, [[Herringthorpe]], [[Hooton Roberts]], [[Ravenfield]], [[Thrybergh]]
|
|-
! S66
| ROTHERHAM
|[[Braithwell]], [[Bramley, South Yorkshire|Bramley]], [[Brampton-en-le-Morthen]], [[Hellaby]], [[Maltby, South Yorkshire|Maltby]], [[Micklebring]], [[Morthen]], [[Stainton, South Yorkshire|Stainton]], [[Stone, South Yorkshire|Stone]], [[Thurcroft]], [[Wickersley]]
| Rotherham, Doncaster
|-
|}

'''S70-S75: BARNSLEY Post Town'''
{{postcode area table start}}
|-
! S70
| BARNSLEY
|Town Centre, [[Birdwell, South Yorkshire|Birdwell]], [[Kendray]], [[Stairfoot]], [[Worsborough]]
| Barnsley
|-
! S71
| BARNSLEY
| [[Ardsley, South Yorkshire|Ardsley]], [[Athersley]], [[Lundwood]], [[Monk Bretton]], [[Royston, South Yorkshire|Royston]]
| Barnsley
|-
! S72
| BARNSLEY
| [[Brierley]], [[Cudworth, South Yorkshire|Cudworth]], [[Grimethorpe]], [[Shafton]], [[South Hiendley]]
| Barnsley, [[City of Wakefield|Wakefield]]
|-
! S73
| BARNSLEY
|[[Darfield, South Yorkshire|Darfield]], [[Hemingfield]], [[Wombwell]]
| Barnsley, Rotherham
|-
! S74
| BARNSLEY
| [[Elsecar]], [[Hoyland]], [[Jump, South Yorkshire|Jump]]
| Barnsley
|-
! S75
| BARNSLEY
| [[Barugh Green]], [[Cawthorne]], [[Darton]], [[Dodworth]], [[Gawber]], [[Kexbrough]], [[Mapplewell]], [[Pogmoor]], [[Staincross]], [[Tankersley, South Yorkshire|Tankersley]], [[Wilthorpe]]
| Barnsley, Wakefield
|-
|}

'''S80 and S81: WORKSOP Post Town'''
{{postcode area table start}}
|-
! S80
| WORKSOP
| [[Worksop]] (south), [[Creswell, Derbyshire|Creswell]], [[Rhodesia, Nottinghamshire|Rhodesia]], [[Thorpe Salvin]], [[Whitwell, Derbyshire|Whitwell]]
| [[Bassetlaw District|Bassetlaw]], Bolsover, Rotherham
|-
! S81
| WORKSOP
| Worksop (north), [[Blyth, Nottinghamshire|Blyth]], [[Carlton-in-Lindrick]], [[Langold]], [[Shireoaks]], [[Woodsetts]]
| Bassetlaw, Rotherham
|-
|}

'''S94-S99: Non-Geographic Postcodes'''
{{postcode area table start}}
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|S94
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|SHEFFIELD
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|Census 2021 (a main national office)
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|S95
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|SHEFFIELD
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''Bulk users''
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|S96
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|SHEFFIELD
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''Bulk users''
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|S97
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|ROTHERHAM, SHEFFIELD
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''Bulk users, mostly Selectapost''
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|S98
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|SHEFFIELD
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''Bulk users''
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|S99
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|SHEFFIELD
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''[[Jobcentre Plus]]''
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''
|}

==Map==
{{Attached KML|display=inline}}
{{Postcode area imagemap|map=S postcode area|size=500x500px}}

==See also==
*[[Postcode Address File]]
*[[List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.poweredbypaf.com/ Royal Mail's Postcode Address File]
*[http://www.poweredbypaf.com/how-the-royal-mail-postcode-address-file-paf-helps-organisations-verify-their-customers-identities/ A quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926234202/https://www.poweredbypaf.com/how-the-royal-mail-postcode-address-file-paf-helps-organisations-verify-their-customers-identities/ |date=26 September 2018 }}

{{Postcode areas in the United Kingdom}}

[[Category:Sheffield]]
[[Category:Postcode areas covering Yorkshire and the Humber]]
[[Category:Postcode areas covering the East Midlands]]

S postcode area - Revision history

imported>Anangrycorgi: /* Coverage */Added Ecclesfield to the list of S5 parishes/coverage