Post Offices of the United Kingdom List of areas covered Those in red type are already listed Bedfordshire Huntingdonshire Nottinghamshire Berkshire Isle of Wight Oxfordshire Birmingham Kent Rutland Bristol Lancashire Shropshire Buckinghamshire Leicestershire Somerset Cambridgeshire Lincolnshire Staffordshire Cheshire London E. Suffolk Cornwall London E.C. Surrey Cumbria London N Sussex Derbyshire London N.W Warwickshire Devon London S.E. West Midlands Dorset London S.W. Wiltshire Durham London W. Worcestershire Essex London W.C. East Yorkshire Gloucestershire Middlesex North Yorkshire Hampshire Norfolk South Yorkshire Herefordshire Northamptonshire West Yorkshire Hertfordshire Northumberland Devon Post Offices This is the next section to be compiled Shropshire Post Offices Abbey Foregate Town Sub Office under Shrewsbury 1847 Money Order Office 1 April 1867 Savings Bank 1 October 1867 Telegraph Office 14 April 1891 Code used = XYA Main post Office 18 April 2013 Ackleton Post Office under Bridgnorth 1857 Post Office under Wolverhampton, Staffordshire1889 Telegraph Office 22 February 1898 Code used = AKN Closed between 1977 and 1983 Acton Burnell Post Office under Shrewsbury 1844 Money Order Office 1 April 1859 Money Order Office status removed 1 April 1862 Money Order Office and Savings Bank 1 July 1885 Telegraph Office 17 July 1894 Code used = AOB Closed 14 November 2008 Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Adbaston Post Office under Newport 30 March 1855 Closed 1873 Re-established 1899 Re-assigned from Shropshire to Stafford 1 July 1926 Temporarily closed by 1946 Re-open by November 1947 Closed 1971 Adderley Post Office under Market Drayton 1854 Money Order Office and Savings Bank 1 July 1887 Telegraph Office February 1887 Code used = ADY Closed by 30 December 2008 Admaston Post Office under Wellington 1857 Post Office under Telford 2 April 1969 Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Alberbury Post Office under Shrewsbury 1847 Money Order Office and Savings Bank 1 April 1873 Telegraph Office 3 February 1901 Code used = ALP Closed 1981 Albert Road Town Sub Office under Oswestry 1935 – Post Office circular 5 June 1935 Money Order Office and Savings Bank Closed 2 February 2005 Albrighton (1) Post Office under Wolverhampton 1839 Money Order Office 1 April 1850 Post Office under Shifnal 9 June 1851 Post Office under Wolverhampton 27 June 1855 Savings Bank 16 October 1861 Telegraph Office 1870 Code used = ACA Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Albrighton (2) Post Office under Shrewsbury 1855 Replaced by Broadoak 1898 All Stretton Post Office under Shrewsbury 1870 Post Office under Church Stretton Railway Sub Office 1873 Money Order Office and Savings Bank by 1908 Relocated to V Hall 1970 Closed 13 August 2008 Alveley Post Office under Bridgnorth1846 Telegraph Office 9 July 1907 Code used = AVL Money Order Office and Savings Bank by 1908 Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Annscroft Post Office under Shrewsbury 1914 Closed between 1977 and 1983 Ash Post Office under Whitchurch 1858 Closed 28 September 1985 Re-open 7 March 1988 Closed 17-9-1993 Ash Parva Post Office under Whitchurch 1882 Closed 29 February 1916 Ashford Carbonell Post Office under Ludlow 1856 Operated from the village hall from 1970 - Thursdays 2-5 pm Closed by 12 July 2014 Ashley Post Office under Market Drayton 1847 Telegraph Office 25 January 1898 Code used = AHL Money Order Office and Savings Bank 1 December 1900 Closed 19 July 1996 At some time the area was reassigned to Staffordshire Astley Post Office under Shrewsbury 1883 Closed 1960 Listed in the Post Office directory to 1963, in error Astley Abbotts Post Office under Bridgnorth 1904 Closed 1904 It is possible that this office never actually opened Aston Post Office under Market Drayton 1936 Listed in the Post Office Circular 3 June 1936 Closed 1973 – Post Office Gazette 4 July 1973 At some time the area was reassigned to Staffordshire Aston-on-Clun Post Office under Ludlow 1846 Post Office under Shrewsbury 1850 Money Order Office 6 June 1851 Railway sub office 1859 Code used = 077 Savings Bank 9 December 1861 Telegraph Office October 1885 Code used = AOC Made a Post Town 1 August 1905 Post Office under Craven Arms 1 May 1935 Closed 18 August 2008 Atcham Post Office under Shrewsbury 1863 Post Office under Cross Houses 12 June 1921 Post Office under Shrewsbury 2 May 1927 Closed 28 September 2000 Badger Post Office under Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 1901 Closed between1952 and 1953. Bagley Post Office under Ellesmere 1910 Closed between 1947 and 1949 Baschurch Penny Post under Shrewsbury 1838 Money Order Office 1 January 1859 Savings Bank 9 December 1861 Telegraph Office October 1881 Code used = BCH Post Office under Montgomery by 14 September 2012 Moved to Clementines shop – date unknown Moved from Clementines to Byway DIY 1 March 2013 Battlefield Post Office under Shrewsbury 1898 Closed 7 May 1993 Bayston Hill Post Office under Shrewsbury 1853 Telegraph Office 27 June 1911 Code used = JNH Money Order Office and Savings Bank by 1908 Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Beatrice Street Town Sub Office under Oswestry 1 April 1891 Money Order Office and Savings Bank Closed 1935 – Post Office circular 5 June 1935 Beckbury Post Office under Shifnal 1845 Money Order Office and Savings Bank 1 April 1897 Telegraph Office 3 January 1899 Code used = QXY Closed 19 November 1998 Bedstone Post Office under Bucknell June 1906 Telegraph Office Code used = JDN Village hall by 2000 - Tuesdays 8.30 – 10.30 am Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Belmont Road Town Sub Office under Ironbridge 1935 – post Office circular 1 May 1935 Town Sub Office under Telford 2 April 1969 Closed between 1977 and 1983 Belle Vue Town Sub Office under Shrewsbury 1 July 1868 Money Order Office Savings Bank 1 October 1868 Closed 2 February 2005 Bent Lont Post Office under Shrewsbury 1901 Telegraph Office 21 April 1947 Code used = BZT Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Berrington Post Office under Shrewsbury 1854 Post Office under Cross Houses 12 June 1921 Post Office under Shrewsbury 6 January 1936 Closed 1972 Berwick Post Office under Shrewsbury 1883 Closed 25 August 1972 Bettisfield Post Office under Whitchurch 1858 Closed 1 November 1983 At some time the area was reassigned to Flintshire Bettisfield Park Camp Post Office under Whitchurch 1915 - 1918 only Bickley Moss Post Office under Whitchurch 1910 Closed 1980 – Post Office Gazette 10 December 1980 At some time the area was reassigned to Cheshire Bicton Heath Post Office under Shrewsbury 1855 Closed 22 June 2007 Re-opened 20 May 2008 in the Nisa Store Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Billingsley Post Office under Bridgnorth 1857 Telegraph Office by 1908 Code used = QLV Closed 1976 Birds Green Post Office under Bridgnorth 1899 Closed 1902 Birtley Post Office under Brampton Brian RSO 1898 Post Office under Bucknell 1 October 1925 Closed 1975 At some time the area was reassigned to Hertfordshire Bishops Castle Post Town by 1711 Money Order Office 1 October 1792 Post Office under Shrewsbury by 1855 Railway Sub Office 1858 Savings Bank 9 December 1861 Telegraph Office 1870 Code used = BHM Made from Sub office to Post Town 1 August 1905 Listed on the Post Office Branch Finder website 14 September 2012 Bitterley Post Office under Ludlow 1895 Money Oder Office and Savings Bank 1 January 1901 Telegraph Office 19 February 1901 Code used = QTY Closed 1967 Blymhill Post Office under Shifnal 1862 Closed 29 August 2000 At some time the area was reassigned to Staffordshire Bomer Heath See Bomere Heath Bomere Heath Post Office under Shrewsbury 1855 Used an undated circle inscribed Bomer Heath Money Order Office 1 April 1863 Money Order service discontinued 30 June 1869 Money Order Office and Savings Bank (as Bomere Heath) 1 May 1885 Money Order service and Savings Bank discontinued 1 January 1886 Services re-established 1 July 1893 Telegraph Office 29 December 1908 Code used = JMH Bourton Post Office under Wellington 1857 Used an undated circle inscribed Burton Post Office under Much Wenlock Railway Sub Office 1874 Listed as Bourton from 1886 – Post Office guide Telegraph Office 30 June 1896 Code used = QOR By 2011 opening times = Mondays1-3 pm; Thursdays11-1 Closed 23 May 2012 Brampton Brian Post Office under Ludlow February 1844 Post Office under Shrewsbury 28 October 1852 Post Office under Ludlow by 1855 Railway Sub Office 28 December 1857 Code used = 078 Money Order Office and Savings Bank 1 February 1893 Telegraph Office.29 May 1894 Code used = QBB Made a Post Town 1 August 1905 Post Office under Bucknell 1 October 1925 Operating one morning per week by 2001 Closed 25 November 2008 At some time the area was reassigned to Hertfordshire Bridgnorth Post Town by 1684 Money Order Office 1 October 1792 Savings Bank 30 October 1861 Telegraph Office 1870 Code used = BNS Changed from a head office to a Salaried Sub-Office 7 September 1968 Changed to a Modified Scale Payment Office 13 September 1993 Bridgnorth RAF Renamed from Stanmore Camp Post Office circa April 1957 to 1964 Renamed The Hobbins Brimfield Post Office under Ludlow 1847 Railway Sub Office 1869 Money Order Office 1 January 1869 Savings Bank 1 April 1869 Telegraph Office 1870 Code used = BOX Made a Post Town 1 August 1905 Post Office under Ludlow 5 May 1925 Closed 21 March 2003 Re-opened 4 April 2005 in the