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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Postcode area within the United Kingdom}}<br />
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{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}<br />
{{Infobox UK postcode area|area_code=WD}}<br />
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The '''WD postcode area''', also known as the '''Watford postcode area''',<ref>Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)</ref> is a group of eleven postcode districts in south-east England, within seven [[post town]]s. These cover south-west [[Hertfordshire]] (including [[Watford]], [[Rickmansworth]], [[Borehamwood]], [[Kings Langley]], [[Abbots Langley]], [[Bushey]] and [[Radlett]]), plus very small parts of [[Buckinghamshire]] and [[Greater London]].<br />
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Mail for this area is sorted at the Home Counties North Mail Centre in [[Hemel Hempstead]], having been sorted at the Watford Mail Centre until its closure in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pickard |first=Michael |date=1 December 2010 |title=Strikes 'ruled out' after Royal Mail closes Watford depot |url=http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/8714230.Strikes__ruled_out__after_Royal_Mail_closes_Watford_depot/ |newspaper=[[Watford Observer]] |access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref> The area covered includes all of the [[Watford Borough Council|borough of Watford]], most of the [[Three Rivers District|Three Rivers]] district, the western part of the [[Hertsmere]] district and small parts of the [[Dacorum]] and [[St Albans City and District|St Albans]] districts. WD3 also covers the village of [[Chenies]] in Buckinghamshire, plus a small protrusion of [[Harefield]] in the [[London Borough of Hillingdon]].<br />
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==Coverage==<br />
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:<br />
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|-<br />
! WD3<br />
| RICKMANSWORTH<br />
| [[Rickmansworth]], [[Chorleywood]], [[Croxley Green]], [[Loudwater, Hertfordshire|Loudwater]], [[Mill End, Rickmansworth|Mill End]], [[Maple Cross]], [[Sarratt]], [[Batchworth]], [[Chenies]], [[Harefield]] (part), [[West Hyde]], [[Heronsgate]], Chandler's Cross <br />
| [[Three Rivers District|Three Rivers]], [[Buckinghamshire Council|Buckinghamshire]], [[London Borough of Hillingdon|Hillingdon]]<br />
|-<br />
! WD4<br />
| KINGS LANGLEY<br />
| [[Kings Langley]], [[Chipperfield]], [[Hunton Bridge]], Rucklers Lane, Bucks Hill<br />
| [[Dacorum]], Three Rivers<br />
|-<br />
! WD5<br />
| ABBOTS LANGLEY<br />
| [[Abbots Langley]], [[Bedmond]]<br />
| Three Rivers, [[St Albans City Council|St Albans]]<br />
|-<br />
! WD6<br />
| BOREHAMWOOD<br />
| [[Borehamwood]], [[Elstree]], [[Well End, Hertfordshire|Well End]]<br />
| [[Hertsmere]]<br />
|-<br />
! WD7<br />
| RADLETT<br />
| [[Radlett]], [[Shenley, Hertfordshire|Shenley]]<br />
| Hertsmere, St Albans<br />
|-<br />
! WD17<br />
| WATFORD<br />
| [[Watford]] town centre, [[Cassiobury]], [[Nascot Wood]]<br />
| [[Watford Borough Council|Watford]]<br />
|-<br />
! WD18<br />
| WATFORD<br />
| West Watford, Holywell<br />
| Watford<br />
|-<br />
! WD19<br />
| WATFORD<br />
| [[Oxhey]], [[South Oxhey]], [[Carpenders Park]]<br />
| Three Rivers, Watford<br />
|-<br />
! WD23<br />
| BUSHEY<br />
| [[Bushey]], Bushey Heath<br />
| Hertsmere, Watford<br />
|-<br />
! WD24<br />
| WATFORD<br />
| [[North Watford]]<br />
| Watford<br />
|-<br />
! WD25<br />
| WATFORD<br />
| [[Garston, Hertfordshire|Garston]], [[Leavesden, Hertfordshire|Leavesden]], [[Aldenham]], [[Letchmore Heath]]<br />
| Watford, Hertsmere, Three Rivers, St Albans <br />
|-<br />
! style="background:#FFFFFF;"|WD99<br />
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|WATFORD<br />
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''[[Jobcentre Plus]]''<br />
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|''non-geographic''<br />
|}<br />
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==Recoding==<br />
In September 2000 districts WD17-19 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 <ref>Royal Mail - ''Postcode Update 31'' (September 2000)</ref><br />
Another reason for the postcode revision was the old WD2 area included Bushey with North Watford. Bushey was to all intents a section of Watford sorting office; up until 2000, all mail for WD2 was cut and tipped at Watford office. In order to change this, new codes were created to enable direct bags to be opened at Bushey delivery office.<br />
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==Map==<br />
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{{Postcode area imagemap|map=WD postcode area}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Postcode Address File]]<br />
*[[List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.poweredbypaf.com/ Royal Mail's Postcode Address File]<br />
*[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)]<br />
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[[Category:Postcode areas covering the East of England]]<br />
[[Category:Postcode areas covering South East England]]<br />
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