London E postcode area
E
Postcode area	E
Postcode area name	London E
Post towns	1
Postcode districts	21
Postcode sectors	91
Postcodes (live)	16,076
Postcodes (total)	23,828
Statistics as at October 2006[1]

The E (Eastern) postcode area, also known as the London E postcode area,^[2] is the part of the London postal district covering part of east London, England and also Sewardstone in Essex.

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.^[3]

Contents 1 History 2 Coverage 3 Adjacent areas 4 See also 5 References

[edit] 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;^[4] 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.^[2]

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;^[5] 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.

[edit] 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 & Highams Park	Waltham Forest, Epping Forest
E5		Clapton	Upper Clapton, Lower Clapton, Leyton (part) Stoke Newington (part)	Hackney, Waltham Forest
E6		East Ham	Beckton, Upton Park (part), Barking (part)	Newham, Barking and Dagenham
E7		Forest Gate	Stratford (part)	Newham, Waltham Forest
E8		Hackney	Dalston, London Fields	Hackney
E9		Homerton	Hackney Wick, South Hackney, Hackney Marshes, Victoria Park	Hackney, Tower Hamlets
E10		Leyton	Temple Mills, Hackney Marshes (Part) Upper Clapton (part), Walthamstow Marshes	Waltham Forest, Hackney
E11		Leytonstone[6]	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 Docks	Silvertown, North Woolwich, Canning Town, Custom House, London City Airport	Newham
E17		Walthamstow	Upper Walthamstow	Waltham Forest
E18		Woodford	South Woodford	Redbridge

[edit] Adjacent areas

The adjacent postcode areas are (clockwise from east) - IG (Ilford) - SE (London SE) - EC (London EC) - N (London N) - EN (Enfield) .

Adjacent postcode areas EN N E IG EC SE

[edit] See also

• List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom
• The fictional London E20 covering Walford in Eastenders

[edit] References

Coordinates: 51°32′N 0°00′E / 51.54°N 0.00°E / 51.54; 0.00