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WC1A 1LY lies on Museum Street in London. WC1A 1LY is located in the Bloomsbury electoral ward, within the London borough of Camden and the English Parliamentary constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. The Sub Integrated Care Board (ICB) Location is NHS North Central London ICB - 93C and the police force is Metropolitan Police. This postcode has been in use since January 1980.

Where is WC1A 1LY?

Street	Museum Street
Town/City	London
Country	England
Postcode District	WC1A

WC1A 1LY Elevation

Elevation or altitude of WC1A 1LY as distance above sea level:

	Metres	Feet
Elevation	20m	66ft

Elevation is measured from the approximate centre of the postcode, to the nearest point on an OS contour line from OS Terrain 50, which has contour spacing of ten vertical metres.

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Politics

Ward	Bloomsbury
Constituency	Holborn And St Pancras

Transport

Nearest bus stops to WC1A 1LY

Museum Street	Holborn	49m
Museum Street (Bloomsbury Way)	Holborn	60m
British Museum (Great Russell Street)	Holborn	93m
New Oxford Street High Holborn	Holborn	126m
New Oxford Street	Tottenham Court Road	149m

Nearest underground/metro/tram to WC1A 1LY

Holborn Underground Station	Holborn	328m
Tottenham Court Road Underground Station	Tottenham Court Road	387m
Covent Garden Underground Station	Covent Garden	510m
Russell Square Underground Station	Russell Square	606m
Goodge Street Underground Station	Goodge Street	715m

Nearest railway stations to WC1A 1LY

London Charing Cross Station	1.1km
London Euston Station	1.3km
Farringdon (London) Station	1.4km

Broadband

Broadband access in WC1A 1LY (2020 data)

Percentage of properties with Next Generation Access	50.0%
Percentage of properties with Superfast Broadband	50.0%
Percentage of properties with Ultrafast Broadband	50.0%
Percentage of properties with Full Fibre Broadband	50.0%

Superfast Broadband is between 30Mbps and 300Mbps
Ultrafast Broadband is > 300Mbps

Broadband speed in WC1A 1LY (2019 data)

Download

Median download speed	19.0Mbps
Average download speed	73.3Mbps
Maximum download speed	350.00Mbps

Upload

Median upload speed	1.2Mbps
Average upload speed	1.0Mbps
Maximum upload speed	1.23Mbps

Broadband limitations in WC1A 1LY (2020 data)

Percentage of properties unable to receive 2Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 5Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 10Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 30Mbps	50.0%

WC1A 1LY gas and electricity consumption

Estimated total energy consumption in WC1A 1LY by fuel type, 2015.

Gas

Consumption (kWh)	188,629
Meter count	10
Mean (kWh/meter)	18,863
Median (kWh/meter)	14,590

Electricity

Consumption (kWh)	38,330
Meter count	7
Mean (kWh/meter)	5,476
Median (kWh/meter)	3,773

• Consumption: The estimated total energy consumption, in kWh, across all meters in WC1A 1LY, for 2015.
• Meter count: The total number of meters in WC1A 1LY.
• Mean: The mean average consumption per meter, in kWh.
• Median: The median average consumption per meter, in kWh.

Deprivation

57.9% of English postcodes are less deprived than WC1A 1LY:

Food Standards Agency

Three nearest food hygiene ratings to WC1A 1LY (metres)

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Nearest post box to WC1A 1LY

	Last Collection
Location	Mon-Fri	Sat	Distance
Bloomsbury St (New Oxford St)	18:30	12:00	148m
Woburn Place (Russell Sq)	18:30	12:00	212m
Bloomsbury Square (Bedford Pl)	18:30	12:00	223m

WC1A 1LY ITL and WC1A 1LY LAU

The below table lists the International Territorial Level (ITL) codes (formerly Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) codes) and Local Administrative Units (LAU) codes for WC1A 1LY:

ITL 1 Code	Name
TLI	London
ITL 2 Code	Name
TLI3	Inner London - West
ITL 3 Code	Name
TLI31	Camden and City of London
LAU 1 Code	Name
E09000007	Camden

WC1A 1LY census areas

The below table lists the Census Output Area (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), and Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) for WC1A 1LY:

	Code	Name
OA	E00004559
LSOA	E01000918	Camden 028C
MSOA	E02000193	Camden 028

Nearest postcodes to WC1A 1LY

WC1A 2SE	Bloomsbury Way	28m
WC1A 1JN	Museum Street	36m
WC1A 1LT	Museum Street	38m
WC1A 2HN	Little Russell Street	40m
WC1A 2HS	Little Russell Street	49m
WC1A 2HR	Little Russell Street	54m
WC1A 1LP	Museum Street	55m
WC1A 2HH	Little Russell Street	59m
WC1A 1EP	New Oxford Street	60m
WC1A 2JD	Gilbert Place	61m