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post town

n
(Human Geography) a town having a main Post Office branch
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"The Clink" was so far from the nearest post town, that the few letters, usually addressed to the tower, were delivered by private arrangement with a messenger.
I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place.
Vholes, we must hire something to get over to the post town in, and catch the mail to-night, and go up by it!"
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He was one of the first of a colony of artists, many of them from Lancashire, who settled at the little post town of Hinderwell, which lies a mile or two inland from Runswick Bay on the Cleveland coast.
Here are the most expensive streets according to Lloyds Bank, with the post town, region and postcode followed by the average house price:
Located in the center of Fukushima Prefecture, Koriyama will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its incorporation as a city in 2024, a year that will also mark the 200th anniversary of its promotion to post town status by the Edo shogunate.
The survey compared average prices in postcode areas which have a national supermarket against the wider post town to identify the average house price premium associated with the proximity to a grocery retailer.
We advise customers and external organisations alike that the county name is not required as part of the postal address, providing that the Post Town and a full, accurate Postcode, are included.
As yet, it is nearly virgin territory for explorers, apart from an aerial survey carried out near the main trading post town of Kapoeta here, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of the capital Juba.
UAEAAEs main border post town with Saudi Arabia, a 137 kilometre stretch of track.
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