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It's worth plugging all the ways in which UK citizens can contribute to independent reverse engineering this info in a clean room manner:

If you've got an iPhone, Android phone or other GPS device: http://www.freethepostcode.org/

If your house was built before 1940 then locate it on an out-of-copyright map: http://www.npemap.org.uk/

Just type in your streetname and postcode: http://postcodedb.sourceforge.net/index.php?p=submit

Identify the location of nearby postboxes: http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/

You can see the results here: http://old-dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/postcodes/

Click on the names of the three different sources in the top left to compare or use the + sign in the top right to switch the underlying map as well.

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