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Chapman code

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Chapman codes are a set of 3-letter codes used in genealogy to identify the administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

Use#edit

They were created by the historian Colin R Chapman in the late 1970s, intended to provide a widely used shorthand in genealogy which follows the common practice of describing areas in terms of the counties existing in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Other uses#edit

Chapman codes have no mapping, postal or administrative use. They can however be useful for disambiguation by postal services where a full county name or traditional abbreviation is not supplied after a place name which has more than one occurrence, a particular problem where these are post towns such as Richmond. Many Chapman codes are also used in ISO 3166-2:GB, where they are prefixed with the country code GB-.

Country codes#edit

Channel Islands#edit

England#edit

Historic counties#edit

Administrative areas#edit

Scotland#edit

Historic counties#edit

1975–1996 regions#edit

Wales#edit

Historic counties#edit

1974–1996#edit

Northern Ireland#edit

Ireland#edit

See also#edit

References#edit

Categories GeocodesBritish genealogyIrish genealogy

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