E POSTCODE AREA

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The 'E (Eastern) postcode area', also known as the 'London E postcode area'Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004), is the part of the London postal district covering much of east London, England.
The postcode area covers the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the London Borough of Waltham Forest and the London Borough of Newham and parts of the London Borough of Hackney and the London Borough of Redbridge. The postcode area does not cover all of East London; the remainder is covered by the RM and IG postcode areas. Some parts of Hackney are in the N postcode area. The E4 postal district uniquely extends beyond the Greater London boundary and covers part of the Epping Forest district of Essex around Sewardstone. ^[2]

Contents

History

Coverage

Adjacent areas

References

See also

History

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; ^[3] 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, the E1 postcode district was split to create an E1W postal 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 districts for high-volume business users.

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postal districts:

Postcode district	Post town	1917 name	Additional coverage	Local authority
E1	LONDON	''Head district''	Aldgate (part), Whitechapel, Shoreditch (part), Spitalfields, Shadwell, Stepney, Mile End (part)	Tower Hamlets, Hackney
E1W		n/a	Wapping	Tower Hamlets
E2		''Bethnal Green''	Haggerston, Shoreditch (part), Cambridge Heath	Tower Hamlets, Hackney
E3		''Bow''	Bromley-by-Bow, Old Ford, Mile End, Three Mills, London Gas Museum	Tower Hamlets, Newham
E4		''Chingford''	Sewardstone	Waltham Forest, Epping Forest
E5		''Clapton''	Upper Clapton, Lower Clapton, Leyton (part)	Hackney, Waltham Forest
E6		''East Ham''	Beckton, Upton Park (part)	Newham
E7		''Forest Gate''		Newham, Waltham Forest
E8		''Hackney''	Dalston	Hackney
E9		''Homerton''	Hackney Wick, South Hackney, Hackney Marshes, Victoria Park	Hackney, Tower Hamlets
E10		''Leyton''	Temple Mills, Hackney Marshes (Part), Walthamstow Marshes	Waltham Forest, Hackney
E11		''Leytonstone''[4]	Wanstead, Snaresbrook, Cann Hall	Waltham Forest, Redbridge
E12		''Manor Park''	Little Ilford, Aldersbrook	Newham, Redbridge
E13		''Plaistow''	West Ham (part), Upton Park (part)	Newham
E14		''Poplar''	Isle of Dogs, Limehouse, Canary Wharf, Blackwall, Cubitt Town	Tower Hamlets
E15		''Stratford''	West Ham (part), Maryland, Leyton (part), Leytonstone (part) Temple Mills (Part), Hackney Wick (part), Bow (part)	Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney, Tower Hamlets
E16		''Victoria Dock''	Silvertown, North Woolwich, Canning Town, Custom House, London City Airport	Newham
E17		''Walthamstow''	Upper Walthamstow	Waltham Forest
E18		''Woodford''	South Woodford	Redbridge
E77		n/a	NatWest (geographically located in E1)	Tower Hamlets
E98		n/a	News International (geographically located in E1W)	Tower Hamlets

Adjacent areas

References

1. National Statistics, ''Postcode Directory Version Notes'', (2006)
2. Museum of London - Map of E4 postal district
3. British Postal Museum & Archive Information Sheet - Postcodes (PDF)
4. HMSO, ''Names of Streets and Places in the London Postal area'', (1930), cited in London Ancestor

See also

★ List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom