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Find postboxes by location, royal cypher or box type. Each link opens a filtered view on the map or a dedicated browse page.

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By reign (royal cypher)

Browse postboxes by the monarch or crown shown on the cipher: Victorian VR boxes through to King Charles III (CR) and Scottish Crown variants.

By form (type)

Pillar, wall, lamp and other physical forms. Each page lists matching postboxes and links to the map with the form filter applied.

  • Pillar boxFreestanding roadside postboxes: most are cylindrical, but named designs sit outside the standard cylindrical pattern list. Identify pattern first, then subtype, then cipher. Type L and Type M Royal Mail sizes are pedestal-mounted boxes: use form Pedestal box, not Pillar. Introduced in the Channel Islands (1852); mainland standard pillars from 1853.Browse postboxes
  • Pedestal boxFreestanding boxes on a pedestal base (including Royal Mail types L and M). Distinct from a full in-ground pillar box.Browse postboxes
  • Wall boxSet into a wall or sometimes a free-standing pillar. Wall box sizes A–F follow conventional UK cast wall box lettering and manufacturer sizing; they are not pillar type letters.Browse postboxes
  • Lamp boxSmall box on lamp posts, poles, or sometimes set in a wall. Lamp rows use LB2xx pattern names aligned with common supplier numbering.Browse postboxes
  • LudlowRecessed wall box with a cast front plate and separate wooden or steel back box. 'Ludlow' is used generically for this family.Browse postboxes
  • Business boxLarge Royal Mail street cabinets for parcels and meter franked mail. Same equipment as Parcel postbox (see identification guide; one section covers both).Browse postboxes
  • Parcel postboxSame large street cabinets as Business box. The add-postbox form is a label choice, not a different box type (see identification guide).Browse postboxes

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