UK address format & examples
How to write a UK address
If you want to leave your UK friends gobsmacked by sending them a package, you’ll need to start with the UK letter address format. You can look at our smashing UK address format examples here and try our suite of address validation tools for addresses in the UK below. Just enter an address, and we'll format, standardize, and validate the address instantly with our UK address validation tools. Cheers, mate!
Now, let's get into it with the basics. The UK address format for shipping or mailing addresses should be written as follows:
- Addressee line - The recipient's name. If the recipient has a title, such as Total Star, include it here.
- Organization or department name - If applicable, add the organization or department name.
- Unit, apartment, flat - If applicable, add the unit or suite number.
- Building or house number - This includes the house or building number, thoroughfare (street name), dependent locality (optional, e.g. suburb), and double-dependent locality (e.g. upper).
- POST TOWN (city) - Ensure that this is written in all capital letters.
- Postal code - Include the city, followed by the 2-character ISO 3166-2 province or territory abbreviation and the postal code.
- COUNTRY - UNITED KINGDOM, written in all capital letters, or GBR for short.
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Country: England Administrative areas: Bedfordshire (BED) Berkshire (BER) Bristol (BRI) Buckinghamshire (BUC) Cambridgeshire (CAM) Cheshire (CHE) City of London (COL) Cornwall (COR) Cumbria (CUM) Derbyshire (DER) Devon (DEV) Dorset (DOR) Durham (DUR) East Riding of Yorkshire (ERY) East Sussex (EAS) Essex (ESS) Gloucestershire (GLO) Greater London (GRL) Greater Manchester (GRM) Hampshire (HAM) Herefordshire (HER) Hertfordshire (HFT) Isle of Wight (IOW) Kent (KEN) Lancashire (LAN) Leicestershire (LEI) Lincolnshire (LIN) Merseyside (MER) Norfolk (NOR) Northamptonshire (NTH) Northumberland (NBL) North Yorkshire (NYO) Nottinghamshire (NOT) Oxfordshire (OXF) Rutland (RUT) Shropshire (SHR) Somerset (SOM) South Yorkshire (SOY) Staffordshire (STA) Suffolk (SUF) Surrey (SUR) Tyne and Wear (TWE) Warwickshire (WAR) West Midlands (WMI) West Sussex (WES) West Yorkshire (WYO) Wiltshire (WIL) Worcestershire (WOR) Country: Scotland Council Areas: Aberdeen City (ABC) Aberdeenshire (ABS) Angus (ANG) Argyll and Bute (ARB) Clackmannanshire (CLA) Dumfries and Galloway (DAG) Dundee City (DUN) East Ayrshire (EAY) East Dunbartonshire (EDU) East Lothian (ELO) East Renfrewshire (ERF) Edinburgh (EDI) Falkirk (FAL) Fife (FIF) Glasgow City (GLC) Highland (HIG) Inverclyde (INV) Midlothian (MID) Moray (MOR) North Ayrshire (NAY) North Lanarkshire (NLA) Orkney Islands (ORI) Perth and Kinross (PAK) Renfrewshire (REN) Scottish Borders (SCB) Shetland Islands (SHI) South Ayrshire (SAY) South Lanarkshire (SLA) Stirling (STI) West Dunbartonshire (WDU) West Lothian (WLO) Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) (NSI) Country: Wales Principal Areas: Blaenau Gwent (BLA) Bridgend (BRI) Caerphilly (CAE) Cardiff (CAR) Carmarthenshire (CMA) Ceredigion (CER) Conwy (CON) Denbighshire (DEN) Flintshire (FLI) Gwynedd (GWY) Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) (IOA) Merthyr Tydfil (MTY) Monmouthshire (MON) Neath Port Talbot (NPT) Newport (NEW) Pembrokeshire (PEM) Powys (POW) Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) Swansea (SWA) Torfaen (TOR) Vale of Glamorgan (VOG) Wrexham (WRE) Country: Northern Ireland Local Government Districts: Antrim and Newtownabbey (ANA) Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon (ACB) Belfast (BEL) Causeway Coast and Glens (CCG) Derry and Strabane (DAS) Fermanagh and Omagh (FAO) Lisburn and Castlereagh (LAC) Mid and East Antrim (MEA) Mid Ulster (MIU) Newry, Mourne and Down (NMD)
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