Skelmersdale postal code

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Skelmersdale information


Postcode district: WN8
Post town: Wigan
Dialling code: 01695
Population: 34492
Elevation: 58m (190ft)
County: Lancashire
Country: England


Postcode area of Skelmersdale is WN8.

Post town of postcode area 'WN' is Wigan. Dialling code of Skelmersdale is 01695. Skelmersdale has 58m (190ft) altitude.

The coordinates of Skelmersdale are: 53.5503519 lat, -2.7763700 lng.

Skelmersdale belongs to Lancashire County. Skelmersdale belongs to England. England is constituent country of United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom (UK) comprises four countries: England, Scotland and Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland.

Every UK postcode format consists of two halves, an "Outward" and an "Inward".

These two halves allow anyone at the sorting office to quickly route any item going through any sorting office. First off the Outward and Inward halves of any postcode format are separated by a space. The Outward half of a Postcode consists of one or two alpha characters (Postcode Areas) followed by one of two numeric characters (Postcode Districts).


Example: SO15 2GB

The Inward half of the postcode format (easily identified as appearing after the space in any postcode) consists of just one numeric followed by two alpha characters.


Example: SO15 2GB


*sources: wikipedia.org