E postcode area

London E postcode area
E
Postcode area	E
Postcode area name	London E
Post towns	1
Postcode districts	22
Postcode sectors	108
Postcodes (live)	15,920
Postcodes (total)	25,973
Statistics as at February 2012

The E (Eastern) postcode area, also known as the London E postcode area, is the part of the London post town covering much of the eastern part of Greater London, England and also Sewardstone in Essex. Since the closure of the East London mail centre during the summer of 2012, inward mail for the E postcode area is now sorted at Romford Mail Centre, with the IG and RM postcode area mail.

Postal administration

The current E postcode area was originally formed in 1866 as a merger of the E and NE areas created in 1858. In 1917, the postal districts were numbered alphabetically by their location; the districts usually cover a wider area than their names might suggest. As of 2004, the district names do not form part of the postal address. Due to high demand, sector 9 of the E1 postcode district was split and recoded in 1999 to create an E1W postcode district around Wapping; the rest of the district did not gain an additional character. Where districts are used for purposes other than the sorting of mail, such as use as a geographic reference and on street signs, E1 and E1W continue to be classed as one "district". The E postcode area contains two non-geographic postcode districts for high-volume business users, E77 and E98.

The Eastern District Office is located 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 as the postcode on the television soap-opera series EastEnders. However, it became a real postcode in 2011, being created for the new Olympic Park in Stratford, site of the 2012 Summer Olympics, from within the E15 postcode.

List of postcode districts

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts, with the historic postal district names shown in italics:

Postcode district	Post town	Coverage	Local authority area
E1	LONDON	Eastern head district: Aldgate (part), Bishopsgate (part), Whitechapel, Shoreditch (part), Spitalfields, Shadwell, Stepney, Globe Town (part), Mile End (part), Portsoken, Brick Lane	Tower Hamlets, Hackney, City of London
E1W	LONDON	Wapping	Tower Hamlets
E2	LONDON	Bethnal Green district: Bethnal Green, Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch (part), Cambridge Heath, Globe Town (part)	Tower Hamlets, Hackney
E3	LONDON	Bow district: Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, Old Ford, Mile End, Fish Island, Limehouse (part) Three Mills, London Gas Museum	Tower Hamlets, Newham
E4	LONDON	Chingford district: Chingford, Sewardstone, Highams Park, Upper Edmonton (part)	Waltham Forest, Enfield, Epping Forest (Essex)
E5	LONDON	Clapton district: Leyton (Part), Upper Clapton, Lower Clapton, Stoke Newington (part)	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, Stoke Newington (part)	Hackney
E9	LONDON	Homerton district: Homerton, Hackney Wick, South Hackney, Hackney Marshes, Victoria Park	Hackney, Tower Hamlets
E10	LONDON	Leyton district: Leyton, Temple Mills, Hackney Marshes (part) Upper Clapton (part), Walthamstow Marshes	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: Poplar, Isle of Dogs, Limehouse, Canary Wharf, Millwall, Blackwall, Cubitt Town, South Bromley, Leamouth	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, North Woolwich, Custom House, London City Airport, Beckton (part)	Newham
E17	LONDON	Walthamstow district: Walthamstow, Upper Walthamstow, Leyton (part)	Waltham Forest
E18	LONDON	Woodford and South Woodford district: Woodford, South Woodford	Redbridge
E20	LONDON	Olympic Park district: Olympic Park, & parts of Stratford, Homerton, Leyton, Bow;	Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney, Tower Hamlets
E77	LONDON	Non-geographic postcode district (NatWest, located in E1)	Tower Hamlets
E98	LONDON	Non-geographic postcode district (News International, located in E1W)	Tower Hamlets

Boundaries

The E1 postcode district has a River Thames frontage to the south and is central to London. Postcode districts E6, E14 and E16 also have river frontages in the south. The River Roding and the North Circular Road form part of the boundary in the east. The postcode area maps roughly to the combined area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London Borough of Newham and London Borough of Waltham Forest. The eastern part of the London Borough of Hackney, western sections of the London Borough of Redbridge (E11, E12, E18) and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (E6), and a small part of the Epping Forest district of Essex (E4) are within the postcode area.

Influences

• The 1990s pop band East 17, formed in Walthamstow, take their name from the postcode district E17.

Map

The postcode area does not cover all of the east of Greater London; the remainder is covered by the RM (Romford) and IG postcode areas. Some parts of Hackney are in the N postcode area.

See also

• List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom
• London postal district
• North East (London sub region)