Where do I live.... Bellendon area??

[mrs f]

Stupid question I know but I've just been asked to fill out two lines of my adress so rather than the usual street, London, Postcode, therefore I need to put in an area.

I've just moved to Soames Street (in-between copleston and Bellendon) and so what do I put, Peckham Rye, East Dulwich, Bellendon?? does it really matter?

Like I said trivial and stupid question but I'm curious as to what other people put who live in the area?

Thanks!

[Sharon_H]

I'm not far from you, I write Peckham down.

[Only me!]

I've always thought that the Postcode made the distinction.

SE15 = Peckham

SE22 = East Dulwich

SE21 = Dulwich

SE23 = Forest Hill

etc.....

[sophiesofa]

Sorry I don't know what you should put but it is an odd system. In address finder royal mail has my address as Dulwich but I'm on Lordship Lane with a SE22 postcode so I always put East Dulwich.

[Jeremy]

The "area" is pretty much redundant for London address, all you should need is the number, road and postcode.

However - Soames Street is in Peckham, so that's probably what you should put.

[cate]

The spelling is Bellenden. Estate agents call it Bellenden Village or Bellenden Conservation Area. It is Peckham. I have seen some people say East Dulwich SE15 depending on where it is in Peckham. But you are part of Peckham.

[Carrie]

Definitely Peckham - I am at the end of Oglander and put Peckham as my address

[Moos]

I live nearby, and think of myself as living in Peckham.

[HAL9000]

Only me! Wrote:

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> I've always thought that the Postcode made the

> distinction.

I know of at least one street that was in East Dulwich but had an SE15 postcode (I don?t know if that is still the case now, though). So, postcodes may not always exactly match the areas - especially near the borders.

[mrs f]

Thanks everyone! Peckham it is then

Cate, sorry for my spelling mistake (dyslexia and all that!)

Was a bit of a funny one Jeremy as I usually don't bother with the area but it was a bank asking for two lines on the address and it hadn't actually occured to me that I was now moving 'out' of East Dulwich!

[mrs f]

Hal9000, yes I had wondered as I had thought that some of the southern ends of Copelston were counted as East Dulwich and I wasn't sure if we fell into that.

Anyway it's all a little academic as we live where we live and it doesn't really matter what that is called

[BECKENHAM CENTRAL]

I live in Lower Sydenham aka Upper Beckenham.

[ruffers]

I live at

My Road Name

London

SE22 etc

The rest doesn't matter and I always leave it blank wherever I can.

[mrs f]

Ruffers, if you read my OP you will see I also don't usually bother, only an online bank form asked me for another line on the address IE either town or area..... it was only curiosity as I'm amy newly a peckhamite....

thanks eveyone

[Moos]

Don't worry mrs f - they're just jealous :)

[woofmarkthedog]

sydenhamcentral Wrote:

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> I live in Lower Sydenham aka Upper Beckenham.

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Ohhh....

You "fibber" there's no such place

( well except in the estate agents mind...)

Though I do live in Upper Sydenham, which borders Dulwich

"Yah.... you know......"

W**F

[Brendan]

There is such a place as Beckenham. I drove through it the other day, I wouldn't tell a lie guv.

It has a roundabout, a cinema with the most uncomfortable seats ever made in the history seats and not much else to recommend it.

[woofmarkthedog]

Brendan....

Oh yes that's all true & that cinema is listed BTW

But "Upper Beckenham"....I ask you ..?

Surley he must mean "Penge" or at best "Penge East"

No it's definitely "lower sydenham" ( all in lower case too )

W**F

[Bic Basher]

I left the Dulwich out of my address a few years back, in any case, when I put my SE22 postcode in a checker, it never puts our town in.

[ruffers]

mrs f Wrote:

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> Ruffers, if you read my OP you will see I also

> don't usually bother, only an online bank form

> asked me for another line on the address IE either

> town or area..... it was only curiosity as I'm amy

> newly a peckhamite....

> thanks eveyone

I hadn't missed the point, no worries. I'd have left it blank I guess.

The one's which are annoying are the ones which insist on a county. To my knowledge the Royal Mail hasn't used those in address sorting for 30 years, yet I end up having to put London, in London.

Edit, county not country

[mrs f]

Ok Ruffers :0)

I did leave it blank initally, but being an annoying bank online form it wouldn't let me procede without putting something!

I've just had to put soames st, peckham, london, london for the tv licence because they wouldn't accept any fewer address lines! some people!

[ClareC]

I've had the same problem, forms insist on counties so you end up with London London! I suppose could write Southwark....

[thebestnameshavegone]

I would write 'Bellenden Village'

...and then consider blowing my own head off

[Vick]

Bellendon Road is in Peckham. Calling it anything else seems to be by way of clarifying 'the nice bit'. I used to live in Camberwell and found it irritating how people often tried to distance themselves from their own area ('I live in Camberwell Grove area', or 'I live in Denmark Hill', or worse 'Ruskin Village' - seriously!). Be Peckham and be proud.

[EDmummy]

I always put London for City/Town and Greater London for county, which I believe is the correct form. This will be accepted by most CRM (customer relationship management systems) and I am pretty sure is populated in a form if you use Quick Address (Addresses supplied by Royal Mail) although as you say, Royal Mail only needs City/Town and postcode.