>Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
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>> 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse! hotmail.com> writes:

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>>> St Helens is not nor has it ever been and if local feeling is anything
>>> to go by, Satan will Ski to work before St Helens ever becomes annexed
>>> by Liverpool! St Helens postcodes are all prefixed with "WA"

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>...except for the ones which are prefixed with "L"?
>

>>> and telephone numbers all begin "01744"

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>..except for the ones which begin "0151"?
>

>> Not all of them. Some are in 01942 (IIRC).

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>That's the Wigan code. It might well cover the Carr Mill/Ashton (A58) area,
>but it doesn't cover Haydock, the most easterly part of St Helens MB -
>Haydock is part of the 01744 exchange.
>

>> Area code boundaries, postcode boundaries, and local government
>> boundaries don't relate to each other except by accident.

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>Correct. The "0151" Liverpool area telephone code covers the City of
>Liverpool, the southern (ie, most populous) part of Sefton MB (Bootle,
>Maghull, etc), almost all of Knowsley MB and part of St Helens MB. It
>covers almost all of Wirral MB as well. It also extends right out to Widnes
>(nowadays claimed as "part of Cheshire").