E postcode area
London E | |
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Coordinates: 51°32′42″N 0°00′50″W / 51.545°N 0.014°W | |
Country | United Kingdom |
Postcode area | E |
Postcode area name | London E |
Post towns | 1 |
Postcode districts | 22 |
Postcode sectors | 108 |
Postcodes (live) | 16,260 |
Postcodes (total) | 28,280 |
Statistics as at May 2020[1] |
The E (Eastern) postcode area, also known as the London E postcode area,
Postal administration
The current E postcode area was originally formed in 1866 as a merger of the E and NE areas, which had been created in 1858. In 1917, the postal districts were numbered alphabetically by their most important parish, chapelry, topographical or built environment feature.
The Eastern District Office is on Whitechapel Road and was the eastern terminus for the former London Post Office Railway, which has been mothballed since 2003. The railway ran 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi) to the Paddington Head District Sorting Office.
The E20 postcode has been used fictionally in television
List of postcode districts
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts,[7] with the historic postal district names[8][9] in italics, is as follows:
Postcode district | Post town | Coverage | Local authority area(s) |
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E1 | LONDON | Eastern head district: Aldgate (part), Bishopsgate (part), Whitechapel, Shoreditch (part), Spitalfields, Shadwell, Limehouse, Stepney, Mile End (part), Portsoken | Tower Hamlets, Hackney, City of London |
E1W | LONDON | Wapping district: Wapping, St Katharine Docks, Shadwell (part) | Tower Hamlets |
E2 | LONDON | Bethnal Green district: Bethnal Green, Haggerston, Hoxton (part), Shoreditch (part), Cambridge Heath | Tower Hamlets, Hackney |
E3 | LONDON | Bow district: Bow, Bow Common, Bromley-by-Bow, Old Ford, Mile End, Fish Island, Mill Meads (part) | Tower Hamlets, Newham |
E4 | LONDON | Chingford district: Chingford, Waltham Abbey (part), Highams Park, Woodford Green (part) | Waltham Forest, Epping Forest |
E5 | LONDON | Clapton district: Lower Clapton
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Hackney, Waltham Forest |
E6 | LONDON | East Ham district: East Ham, Beckton, Upton Park (part), Barking (part) | Newham, Barking and Dagenham |
E7 | LONDON | Forest Gate district: Forest Gate, Leytonstone (Part), Stratford (part) | Newham, Waltham Forest |
E8 | LONDON | Hackney district: Hackney Central, Dalston, London Fields, Haggerston (part) | Hackney |
E9 | LONDON | Homerton district: Homerton, Hackney Wick, South Hackney, Hackney Marshes, Victoria Park | Hackney, Tower Hamlets |
E10 | LONDON | Leyton district: Upper Clapton (part), Walthamstow Marshes
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Waltham Forest, Hackney |
E11 | LONDON | Leytonstone district: Leytonstone, Wanstead, Aldersbrook (part), Snaresbrook, Cann Hall | Waltham Forest, Redbridge |
E12 | LONDON | Manor Park district: Manor Park, Little Ilford, Aldersbrook (part) | Newham, Redbridge |
E13 | LONDON | Plaistow district: Plaistow, West Ham (part), Upton Park (part) | Newham |
E14 | LONDON | Poplar district: South Bromley, North Greenwich, Leamouth
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Tower Hamlets |
E15 | LONDON | Stratford district: Stratford, West Ham (part), Maryland, Leyton (part), Leytonstone (part) Temple Mills (part), Hackney Wick (part), Bow (part) | Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney, Tower Hamlets |
E16 | LONDON | Victoria Docks and North Woolwich district: Canning Town, Silvertown, Royal Docks, North Woolwich, Beckton (part), Custom House, London City Airport | Newham |
E17 | LONDON | Walthamstow district: Upper Walthamstow, Leyton (part)
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Waltham Forest |
E18 | LONDON | Woodford and South Woodford district: Woodford, South Woodford | Redbridge |
E20 | LONDON | Olympic Park district: | Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney, Tower Hamlets |
E77 | LONDON | Non-geographic postcode district (NatWest , delivers to E1)
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Tower Hamlets |
E98 | LONDON | Non-geographic postcode district ( News International , delivers to E1W)
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Tower Hamlets |
The E17 postcode district is one of four to have a population above 100,000.[10]
Boundaries
The E1 postcode district is bounded by the
In popular culture
- The 1990s pop band East 17, formed in Walthamstow, whose postcode district is E17.
- BBC soap EastEnders uses E20 (which did not actually exist until 2011) as the postcode district for the borough of Walford.
- The track "Bow E3" by where Wiley grew up.
- The album E3 AF by Dizzee Rascal also refers to the E3 postcode and the Bow area, where he grew up.
Map
The postcode area excludes parts of East London like the following:
- Central areas covered by central London EC postcodes.
- Hoxton in Shoreditch is part of the N postcode area but is usually seen as being part of the East End.
- The eastern suburbs built after the introduction of the E postcode area are now mainly in the IG and RM postal areas.
See also
- Postcode Address File
- List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom
- London postal district
- North East (London sub region)
References
- ^ "ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. May 2020. Table 2. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Coordinates from mean of unit postcode points, "Code-Point Open". OS OpenData. Ordnance Survey. February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
- ^ a b Royal Mail (2004). Address Management Guide (4 ed.). Royal Mail Group.
- The British Postal Museum & Archive. Archived from the original(PDF) on 20 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ Royal Mail, Postcode Update 29, (1999).
- ^ "Royal Mail Non-Geographic Postcodes" (PDF). Royal Mail. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 10 March 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Staff (19 March 2011). "Olympic Park To Share EastEnders' Walford E20 Postcode". BBC News. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ London Postcode and Administrative Boundaries. Geographers A-Z Map Co Ltd. 2013.
- ^ "Names of Streets and Places in the London Postal Area". HMSO. 1930.
- ^ "Map of London District Names and Numbers", from the 1963 edition of Bartholomew's Reference Atlas of Greater London (via Flickr).
- ^ "FOI request: Population for every postcode district in England and Wales". The National Archives. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
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