Wrong postal town (Isle of Mull)

[sheffield hatter]

Can anyone suggest a solution for this?

Salen Hotel is on the Isle of Mull, with a postcode PA72 6JL. But its postal town is given as Bishopton, which is in postcode area PA7. So it looks like at some stage the postcode has maybe been input with a digit missing, but then correcting that digit has not resulted in the postal town changing to either Craignure or Tobermory.

The same thing has happpened with Glenforsa Hotel PA72 6JW, so perhaps it's not an input error but a quirk of the postcode system. Does anyone know about this?

Also today I added a pub at Fionnphort, also on Mull PA66 6BL - this one has a postal town not far from Bishopton: Johnstone, in postcode area PA5. I created a new area of Isle of Mull for this new entry, but it is not possible to add the other pubs on the island to the same group as they are all in different postal towns.

Any suggestions?

[sheffield hatter]

I created a new area of Isle of Mull for this new entry, but it is not possible to add the other pubs on the island to the same group as they are all in different postal towns.

OK, here's a link to a list of postcode areas: https://www.postcodes-uk.com/postcode-areas

Within each area is a list of postal towns: https://www.postcodes-uk.com/PA-postcode-area

Surprisingly, there are 14 different postcodes in the Isle of Mull.

Surpise number two is that Isle of Mull is actually a postal town: https://www.postcodes-uk.com/isle-of-mull-postcode

As an experiment I have just tried adding a pub on the Isle of Iona: the St Columba Hotel. This has a PA76 postcode, and like the one at Salen I mentioned earlier today, which was PA72, the default selection for the postal town is Bishopton. Looking at the pick list, there is an option to choose a blank rather than the default, but when clicking on "add pub" an error message pops up: "town must be selected".

Looking at other pubs on Isle of Mull, some have Tobermory as postal town, the one in Craignure village has Craignure as its postal town, so there seems to have been an option previously to write in a postal town, or the pick list was once more extensive, or just different. As it stands at the moment, it seems that there is something in the coding that causes a search for PA76 or PA72 to be called off, and PA7 to be selected (PA7 is Bishopton). In the case of the pub at Fionnphort that I added today, the postcode was PA66, but the programme has gone for PA6 (Johnstone).

Late eye-opener: there is also a pick list for counties in the add pub facility. This gives a different pick-list of postal towns. Tobermory (the largest settlement on Mull) is on the Highland picklist. (Coincidentally, so is Acharacle - albeit misspelt as Archaracle! - which is a village in Lochaber near another Salen, which also has a Salen Hotel.) And so is Craignure.

I want to add two pubs on Iona, so could do with an Isle of Iona postal town option. Likewise, the pubs on Mull (there's only about half a dozen) could do with being in an Isle of Mull postal town. If possible, it would be nice to have a fix or a work around. I'm planning for a visit to Mull and Iona next May or June, so there's no rush.

[sheffield hatter]

Late eye-opener: there is also a pick list for counties in the add pub facility. This gives a different pick-list of postal towns. Tobermory (the largest settlement on Mull) is on the Highland picklist. (Coincidentally, so is Acharacle - albeit misspelt as Archaracle! - which is a village in Lochaber near another Salen, which also has a Salen Hotel.)

I have now added the second Salen Hotel, but because of the pick-list typo it is in the postal town of Archaracle. Is there any way this can be fixed?