CB Postbox Photography Project

Since May 2017 I have been contributing photographs of Post Boxes to a Facebook-based project called Postbox Collection, which aims to acquire pictures of every Post Box in the British Isles. It's difficult to find specific photos in that project, so I have collected mine from Postcode Area CB here with an OpenStreetMap interface to find them.

As well as 10 CB Postcode Districts handled by the Cambridge Delivery Office, there are 2 each handled by Ely and Saffron Walden, and 1 each by Newmarket and Haverhill. Thus CB includes parts of Essex and Suffolk as well as much of Cambridgeshire¹. There are about 880 post boxes in all. In numerical terms my coverage is over 91%, but, increasingly, those outstanding are in difficult-to-reach (by public transport and/or bicycle) villages a long way from my starting point in Cambridge.

¹ It also includes a handful of houses in Norfolk (Black Horse Drove - in Hilgay parish, although their postal address is Littleport), but no post boxes in Norfolk.

Those for which I have photos are marked in red on the adjacent map. Click on the marker and then on the pop-up to view the photos. Where possible I have pointed the outstanding markers to images of the boxes in Google StreetView. Orange markers show boxes which are marked in OpenStreetMap with their CB reference numbers; yellow are marked in OSM without reference numbers, and magenta are not marked in OSM at all. A few redundant and private boxes of interest are also included, marked in green.

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