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{{short description|Postcode area within the United Kingdom}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox UK postcode area|area_code=TN}}
The '''TN postcode area''', also known as the '''Royal Tunbridge Wells postcode area''',<ref>Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)</ref> is a group of 40 postcode districts in [[England]], within 24 [[post town]]s. These cover south and west [[Kent]] (including [[Royal Tunbridge Wells]], [[Tonbridge]], [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]], [[Sevenoaks]], [[Westerham]], [[Cranbrook, Kent|Cranbrook]], [[Edenbridge, Kent|Edenbridge]], [[New Romney]], [[Romney Marsh]] and [[Tenterden]]) and northern and eastern [[East Sussex]] (including [[Hastings]], [[Battle, East Sussex|Battle]], [[Bexhill-on-Sea]], [[Crowborough]], [[Etchingham]], [[Hartfield]], [[Heathfield, East Sussex|Heathfield]], [[Mayfield and Five Ashes|Mayfield]], [[Robertsbridge]], [[Rye, East Sussex|Rye]], [[St Leonards-on-Sea]], [[Uckfield]], [[Wadhurst]] and [[Winchelsea]]), plus very small parts of [[Surrey]] and the [[London Borough of Bromley]].

Mail for this area is sorted at the Royal Mail Sorting Office in [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]], which also sorts all mail from the adjoining [[ME postcode area]].

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==Coverage==
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

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|-
! TN1
| TUNBRIDGE WELLS
| [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]] (town centre)
| [[Borough of Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]]<ref name="codepoint">Local authority data obtained from [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/ OS OpenData] Code-Point Open. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2010 and contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2010, [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/docs/licence.pdf under licence]. Local authorities only listed for postcode districts having at least 5% of their postcodes from that authority, to exclude erroneous, fringe and non-geographical cases.</ref>
|-
! TN2
| TUNBRIDGE WELLS
| [[Royal Tunbridge Wells]] (south and east), [[Pembury]]
| Tunbridge Wells
|-
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|TN2
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|WADHURST
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''[[Non-geographic postcodes|non-geographic]]''<ref name="nongeo1207">{{Cite web |url=http://www.poweredbypaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12July_current_non-geos-original.pdf |format=PDF |title=Non Geographic Codes |publisher=Royal Mail Address Management Unit |date=July 2012 |access-date=25 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916141140/http://www.poweredbypaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12July_current_non-geos-original.pdf |archive-date=16 September 2012 }}</ref><ref name="amu1210">{{Cite web |url=http://www.poweredbypaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/102012_new_localities.pdf |format=PDF |title=New sectors and localities to 19 October 2012 |publisher=Royal Mail Address Management Unit |date=19 October 2012 |access-date=25 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513003735/http://www.poweredbypaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/102012_new_localities.pdf |archive-date=13 May 2013 }}</ref>
|-
! TN3
| TUNBRIDGE WELLS
| [[Langton Green]], [[Groombridge]], [[Frant]], [[Speldhurst]], [[Lamberhurst]]
| Tunbridge Wells, [[Wealden District|Wealden]]
|-
! TN4
| TUNBRIDGE WELLS
| [[Royal Tunbridge Wells]] (north), Rusthall, [[Southborough, Kent|Southborough]]
| Tunbridge Wells
|-
! TN5
| WADHURST
| [[Wadhurst]], [[Ticehurst]], Tidebrook, Stonegate
| [[Rother District|Rother]], [[Wealden District|Wealden]]
|-
! TN6
| CROWBOROUGH
| Black Hill, Boars Head, Burnt Oak, Castle Hill, Friars Gate, [[Mark Cross, East Sussex|Mark Cross]], [[Rotherfield]], St Johns, Stone Cross, Town Row
| Wealden
|-
! TN7
| HARTFIELD
| Coleman's Hatch, [[Hartfield]]
| Wealden
|-
! TN8
| EDENBRIDGE
| [[Crockham Hill]], [[Edenbridge, Kent|Edenbridge]]
| [[Sevenoaks District|Sevenoaks]], [[Tandridge District|Tandridge]]
|-
! TN9
| TONBRIDGE
| [[Tonbridge]] (town centre and south)
| [[Tonbridge and Malling]]
|-
! TN10
| TONBRIDGE
| [[Tonbridge]] (north including Higham Wood)
| Tonbridge and Malling
|-
! TN11
| TONBRIDGE
| [[Penshurst]], [[Hildenborough]], [[Hadlow]], [[Tudeley]]
| Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells
|-
! TN12
| TONBRIDGE
| [[Paddock Wood]], [[Staplehurst]], [[Brenchley]], [[Horsmonden]], [[Marden, Kent|Marden]], [[East Peckham]]
| [[Borough of Maidstone|Maidstone]], Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells
|-
! TN13
| SEVENOAKS
| [[Sevenoaks]], [[Riverhead, Kent|Riverhead]], [[Dunton Green]]
| Sevenoaks
|-
! TN14
| SEVENOAKS
| [[Cudham]], [[Knockholt]], [[Shoreham, Kent|Shoreham]], [[Otford]], [[Hazelwood, London|Hazelwood]]
| [[London Borough of Bromley|Bromley]], Sevenoaks
|-
! TN15
| SEVENOAKS
| [[Kemsing]], [[Ightham]], [[Plaxtol]], [[Wrotham]], [[Sevenoaks Weald]], [[Borough Green]]
| Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Malling
|-
! TN16
| WESTERHAM
| [[Westerham]], [[Biggin Hill]], [[Berry's Green]], [[Tatsfield]]
| Bromley, Sevenoaks, Tandridge
|-
! TN17
| CRANBROOK
| [[Cranbrook, Kent|Cranbrook]], [[Goudhurst]], [[Sissinghurst]], [[Benenden]], [[Frittenden]]
| [[Borough of Ashford|Ashford]], Tunbridge Wells
|-
! TN18
| CRANBROOK
| [[Hawkhurst]], [[Sandhurst, Kent|Sandhurst]]
| Tunbridge Wells
|-
! TN19
| ETCHINGHAM
| [[Etchingham]], [[Burwash]]
| Rother
|-
! TN20
| MAYFIELD
| [[Five Ashes]]
| Wealden
|-
! TN21
| HEATHFIELD
| [[Heathfield, East Sussex|Heathfield]], [[Broad Oak (Heathfield), East Sussex|Broad Oak]], [[Horam]], [[Cross in Hand]]
| Rother, Wealden
|-
! TN22
| UCKFIELD
| [[Buxted]], [[Isfield]], [[Maresfield]], [[Nutley, East Sussex|Nutley]], [[Uckfield]]
| Wealden
|-
! TN23
| ASHFORD
| [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]] (town centre), [[Kingsnorth]], [[Singleton, Kent|Singleton]]
| Ashford
|-
! TN24
| ASHFORD
| [[Willesborough]], [[Kennington, Kent|Kennington]], [[Boughton Aluph]], Goat Lees
| Ashford
|-
! TN25
| ASHFORD
| [[Challock]], [[Wye, Kent|Wye]], [[Stowting]], [[Brook, Kent|Brook]]
| Ashford, [[Folkestone and Hythe (District)|Folkestone and Hythe]]
|-
! TN26
| ASHFORD
| [[Bethersden]], [[Hamstreet]], [[Shadoxhurst]], [[Woodchurch, Kent|Woodchurch]]
| Ashford
|-
! TN27
| ASHFORD
| [[Headcorn]], [[Biddenden]]
| Ashford, Maidstone
|-
! TN28
| NEW ROMNEY
| [[New Romney]], [[Greatstone-on-Sea]], [[Littlestone-on-Sea]]
| Folkestone and Hythe
|-
! TN29
| ROMNEY MARSH
| [[Lydd]], [[Dymchurch]], [[Dungeness]]
| Folkestone and Hythe
|-
! TN30
| TENTERDEN
| [[Tenterden]], [[Wittersham]]
| Ashford
|-
! TN31
| RYE
| [[Rye, East Sussex|Rye]], [[Camber, East Sussex|Camber]], [[Northiam]]
| Rother
|-
! TN32
| ROBERTSBRIDGE
| [[Robertsbridge]], [[Mountfield, East Sussex|Mountfield]], [[Bodiam]], [[Brightling]]
| Rother
|-
! TN33
| BATTLE
| [[Battle, East Sussex|Battle]]
| Rother, Wealden
|-
! TN34
| HASTINGS
| [[Hastings]] town centre
| [[Hastings]]
|-
! TN35
| HASTINGS
| Hastings, [[Pett]], [[Guestling]], [[Westfield, East Sussex|Westfield]]
| Hastings, Rother
|-
! TN36
| WINCHELSEA
| [[Winchelsea]], [[Icklesham]]
| Rother
|-
! TN37
| ST. LEONARDS-ON-SEA
| [[St Leonards-on-Sea]]
| Hastings
|-
! TN38
| ST. LEONARDS-ON-SEA
| St Leonards-on-Sea, [[Silverhill, East Sussex|Silverhill]], Wishing Tree, [[North Hastings]], [[Bulverhythe]]
| Hastings
|-
! TN39
| BEXHILL-ON-SEA
| [[Bexhill-on-Sea]], [[Cooden]]
| Rother
|-
! TN40
| BEXHILL-ON-SEA
| Bexhill-on-Sea, Pebsham
| Rother
|}

==Delivery offices==
Main delivery offices are in Ashford, Bexhill, Biggin Hill, Cranbrook, Crowborough, Edenbridge, Heathfield, New Romney, Rye, Sevenoaks, St Leonards, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Uckfield. Scale Payment Delivery Offices are in Post Offices of Appledore, Bethersden, Brabourne Lees, Charing, Egerton, Etchingham, Headcorn, Marden, Robertsbridge, Smarden, Staplehurst and Woodchurch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/list_of_uk_delivery_offices|title=List of UK Delivery Offices (based on a Freedom of Information request |publisher=Royal Mail Group Limited |date=10 February 2009 |website=WhatDoTheyKnow}}</ref>

==Map==
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{{Postcode area imagemap|map=TN postcode area|size=600x600px}}

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

==References==
{{CCBYSASource|sourcepath=http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/|sourcearticle=Mapping data and geographic information from Ordnance Survey|revision=376171101}}
{{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)]

{{Postcode areas in the United Kingdom}}
{{London postcode areas}}

[[Category:Postcode areas covering South East England]]
[[Category:Postcode areas covering London]]

TN postcode area - Revision history

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