Porthcawl postal code
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Porthcawl information
Postcode district: CF36 5xx
Post town: Cardiff
Dialling code: 01656
Population: 15479
Elevation: 11m (36ft)
Country: Wales
Postcode areas of Porthcawl are CF36 5xx.
Post town of postcode area 'CF' is Cardiff. Dialling code of Porthcawl is 01656. Porthcawl has 11m (36ft) altitude.
The coordinates of Porthcawl are: 51.4789680 lat, -3.7051630 lng.
Porthcawl belongs to Wales. 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