HP postcode area

Hemel Hempstead postcode area
HP
Postcode area	HP
Postcode area name	Hemel Hempstead
Post towns	11
Postcode districts	24
Postcode sectors	77
Postcodes (live)	13,743
Postcodes (total)	20,599
Statistics as at February 2012

The HP postcode area, also known as the Hemel Hempstead postcode area, is a group of twenty-four postcode districts in England which are subdivisions of eleven post towns. These postcode districts cover north-west Hertfordshire and much of Buckinghamshire.

The main sorting office is in Hemel Hempstead (Maylands Avenue HP2) and the area served includes most of the Dacorum district of Hertfordshire and most of the Chiltern, Wycombe and Aylesbury Vale districts of Buckinghamshire, as well as a small part of the South Bucks district.

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

Postcode district	Post town	Coverage	Local authority area
HP1	HEMEL HEMPSTEAD	Bourne End, Boxmoor, Chaulden, Fields End, Gadebridge, Great Gaddesden, Nettleden, Piccotts End, Water End, Warner's End	Dacorum
HP2	HEMEL HEMPSTEAD	Gaddesden Row, Piccotts End, Grovehill, Adeyfield, Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate	Dacorum
HP3	HEMEL HEMPSTEAD	Apsley, Bovingdon, Felden Flaunden, Hemel Hempstead, Leverstock Green	Dacorum
HP4	BERKHAMSTED	Berkhamsted, Dagnall, Dudswell, Little Gaddesden, Northchurch, Potten End, Ringshall	Dacorum, Aylesbury Vale
HP5	CHESHAM	Chesham, Ashley Green, Bellingdon, Botley, Chartridge, Hawridge, Latimer, Lye Green, Newtown, Waterside, Whelpley Hill	Chiltern
HP6	AMERSHAM	Amersham, Chesham Bois, Hyde Heath, Little Chalfont	Chiltern
HP7	AMERSHAM	Amersham, Coleshill, Little Chalfont, Little Missenden, Penn Street, Winchmore Hill	Chiltern
HP8	CHALFONT ST. GILES	Chalfont St Giles	Chiltern
HP9	BEACONSFIELD	Beaconsfield, Forty Green, Holtspur, Jordans, Knotty Green, Seer Green	South Bucks, Chiltern
HP10	HIGH WYCOMBE	High Wycombe, Flackwell Heath, Handy Cross, Hedsor, Loudwater, Penn, Tylers Green, Wooburn, Wooburn Green, Wooburn Moor	Wycombe, Chiltern
HP11	HIGH WYCOMBE	Wycombe Marsh	Wycombe
HP12	HIGH WYCOMBE	High Wycombe, Booker, Sands	Wycombe
HP13	HIGH WYCOMBE	High Wycombe, Downley, Totteridge	Wycombe
HP14	HIGH WYCOMBE	Beacon's Bottom, Bledlow Ridge, Bolter End, Bradenham, Cadmore End, Hughenden Valley, Ibstone, Lane End, Naphill, Northend, Stokenchurch, The City, Upper North Dean, West Wycombe	Wycombe
HP15	HIGH WYCOMBE	Cryers Hill, Great Kingshill, Hazlemere, Holmer Green, Hughenden Valley	Wycombe, Chiltern
HP16	GREAT MISSENDEN	Great Missenden, Ballinger, The Lee, Little Hampden, Little Kingshill, Prestwood, South Heath	Chiltern, Wycombe
HP17	AYLESBURY	Aston Sandford, Bishopstone, Butler's Cross, Dinton, Dorton, Ellesborough, Ford, The Kimbles, Kingsey, Haddenham, Meadle, Nash Lee, Stone, Upton, Westlington	Aylesbury Vale
HP18	AYLESBURY	Ashendon, Boarstall, Brill, Chearsley, Chilton, Cuddington, Dorton, Easington, Edgcott, Grendon Underwood, Ickford, Kingswood, Long Crendon, Lower Winchendon, Ludgershall, Oakley, Shabbington, Upper Winchendon, Waddesdon, Westcott, Worminghall, Wotton Underwood	Aylesbury Vale
HP19	AYLESBURY	Aylesbury, Fairford Leys, Prebendal Farm, Quarrendon, Watermead	Aylesbury Vale
HP20	AYLESBURY	Aylesbury, Aylesbury Town Centre, Broughton, Elmhurst	Aylesbury Vale
HP21	AYLESBURY	Aylesbury, Bedgrove, Elm Farm, Queens Park, Southcourt, Walton, Walton Court	Aylesbury Vale
HP22	AYLESBURY	Aston Abbotts, Aston Clinton, Bierton, Buckland, Drayton Beauchamp, Dunsmore, Halton, Hardwick, Hulcott, North Lee, Nup End, Oving, Pitchcott, Quainton, Rowsham, Stoke Mandeville, Weedon, Wendover, Weston Turville, Whitchurch, Wingrave	Aylesbury Vale
HP22	PRINCES RISBOROUGH		non-geographic
HP23	TRING	Aldbury, Buckland Common, Cholesbury, Hastoe, Long Marston, Marsworth, New Mill, Puttenham, St Leonards, Tring, Wigginton, Wilstone	Dacorum, Chiltern
HP27	PRINCES RISBOROUGH	Askett, Bledlow, Ilmer, Lacey Green, Longwick, Loosley Row, Monks Risborough, Owlswick, Pitch Green, Princes Risborough, Saunderton, Speen	Wycombe

See also

• List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom