Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:14:00 -0600 (CST)
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From: Brian Jones <bajones@larkhill.win-uk.net>
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Subject: [BBSSIG:3936] United Kingdom BBS Regions and Counties
X-Comment: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio  BBS Special Interest Group


  For information:

                United Kingdom BBS Regions and Counties
                       showing National Area Code
                       --------------------------
   
  To assist fowarding of messages within the United Kingdom, the country
is divided in to seven regions, four in England which also include the
offshore countries, and one for each of the other countries, Scotland,
Northern Ireland and Wales. Each of those regions then have up to nine
sub-regions containing one or more counties.

  The three letter codes shown against counties are used in various
lists used on packet and also some contests.

  You should normally use a single BBS, located in easy communication
range. If you use more than one mailbox to send messages it can cause
problems with the routing of replies to you.

  If you want information on files at another mailbox you can use REQDIR
and REQFIL messages, though not all systems carry files.

  The United Kingdom DX Clusters are primarily for the current exchange
of DX information and do not normally exchange bulletins or other than
personal mail for SysOps with the BBS network.

=======================================================================
RSGB Reg A - Northern England          RSGB Reg D - South West
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#11 Cheshire                CHS        #41 Avon                    AVN
#12 Cleveland               CVE        #42 Berkshire               BRK
#13 Co. Durham              DHM        #43 Buckinghamshire         BUX
#14 Cumbria                 CBA        #44 Devon                   DVN
#15 Humberside              HBS        #44 Cornwall                CNL
#16 Greater Manchester      MCH        #45 Dorset                  DOR
#16 Isle of Man (GD)        IOM        #45 Somerset                SOM
#16 Merseyside              MSY        #46 Gloucestershire         GLR
#16 Lancashire              LNH        #47 Alderney (GU)           ALD
#17 Northumberland          NLD        #47 Jersey (GJ)             JER
#18 Tyne and Wear           TWR        #47 Guernsey (GU)           GUR
#19 North Yorkshire         YSN        #47 Sark (GU)               SRK
#19 South Yorkshire         YSS        #48 Hampshire               HPH
#19 West Yorkshire          YSW        #48 Isle of Wight           IOW
                                       #49 Wiltshire               WLT
RSGB Reg B - Midlands                  #49 Oxfordshire             OFE
    & East Anglia
-------------------------------        RSGB Reg E - Wales (GW)
#21 Bedfordshire            BFD        --------------------------------
#22 Cambridgeshire          CBE        #51 Clwyd                    CLD
#23 Nottinghamshire         NOT        #52 Dyfed                    DFD
#23 Derbyshire              DYS        #53 Mid Glamorgan            GNM
#24 Hereford and Worcester  HWR        #53 South Glamorgan          GNS
#25 Leicestershire          LEC        #53 West Glamorgan           GNW
#26 Lincolnshire            LCN        #54 Gwent                    GWT
#27 Northamptonshire        NHM        #55 Gwynedd                  GDD
#28 Shropshire              SPE        #56 Powys                    PWS
#28 Staffordshire           SFD
#29 Warwickshire            WKS        RSGB Reg F - Northern Ireland (GI)
#29 West Midlands           WMD        ---------------------------------
                                       #61 County Antrim            ATM
RSGB Reg C - South East                #62 County Armagh            ARM
-------------------------------        #63 County Down              DWN
#31 Essex                   ESX        #64 County Fermanagh         FMH
#32 Greater London          LDN        #65 County Londonderry       LDR
#33 Hertfordshire           HFD        #66 County Tyrone            TYR
#34 Kent                    KNT
#35 Norfolk                 NOR        RSGB Reg G - Scotland (GM)
#36 Suffolk                 SFK        --------------------------------
#37 Surrey                  SRY        #71 Borders                  BDS
#38 East Sussex             SXE        #72 Central                  CTR
#38 West Sussex             SXW        #73 Dumfries and Galloway    DGL
-------------------------------        #74 Fife                     FFE
  Occasionally a code for an           #75 Grampian                 GRN
    adjacent area is used,             #76 Western Isles            WIL
    by a mailbox because of            #76 Orkney                   ORK
  available forwarding paths.          #76 Highland                 HLD
-------------------------------        #76 Shetland                 SLD
+         Support your        +        #77 Lothian                  LTH
+      local Packet Group     +        #78 Strathclyde              SCD
+                             +        #79 Tayside                  TYS
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Any questions, answers or suggested topic?

73 Brian G8ASO

        PMS address @ G8ASO.GB7GLO.#46.GBR.EU


File: HELP-023.ASO      Date: 20-Aug-93

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Brian Jones                          Worcester, United Kingdom
G8ASO @ G8ASO.GB7GLO.#46.GBR.EU    bajones@larkhill.win-uk.net
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