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what about farms and houses in rural areas? Do they have numerical addresses?

• vidanay 6y ago
  Yes
• maxerickson 6y ago
  For the most part, yes. The farm might also have a name (chosen by the current owners, not particularly in common use, etc). There was also a nationwide initiative to make addresses more standardized inside a county. So the address for a house might be on a numbered road and reflect the location of that property along the road (this is just a common pattern, not a top down standard).
  • arethuza 6y ago
    Pretty much everything in rural areas in the UK is just done b y names of properties along with the area or nearest village - some roads do have names but they tend to only be used by locals (and no signposts, of course). Mind you all properties have postcodes and most roads have a designation of some kind - mind you I couldn't tell you the number of the road we live near without looking it up.
    • alistairSH 6y ago
      The best UK mailing label I've seen (on a 19th? century wooden crate bound for Dunvegan Castle) was: Route via Derby, Grantham, Ft William, Mallaig, David McBrayne's steamer to Armadale, and road delivery to Dunvegan. Do the postal codes uniquely ID a residence on their own? My dad's old address (from his youth) was: The Coolins, Emma Terrace, Blairgowrie PH10 6JA Does the code get the package to the right address on it's own? I'm guessing not, but the UK does use alpha-numeric codes (US is numeric only), so has a broader range of codes available for fine-tuning delivery.
      • kwhitefoot 6y ago
        > Does the code get the package to the right address on it's own Within a group of typically about five houses. It varies a little with population density.