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| Postcode area | E |
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| 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 post town covering part of east London, England and also Sewardstone in Essex.
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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.[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;[4] 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.[5]
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 6.5 miles (10.5 km) to the Paddington Head District Sorting Office.
The E20 postcode has been used fictionally as the postcode on the series Eastenders. However, E20 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. [6]
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts, with the historic postal district names shown in italics:[7]
| Postcode district | Post town | Coverage | Local authority area |
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| E1 | LONDON | Eastern head district: Aldgate (part), Bishopsgate (part), Whitechapel, Shoreditch (part), Spitalfields, Shadwell, Stepney, Mile End (part), Portsoken | Tower Hamlets, Hackney, City of London |
| E1W | LONDON | Wapping | Tower Hamlets |
| E2 | LONDON | Bethnal Green district: Bethnal Green, Haggerston, Shoreditch (part), Cambridge Heath | Tower Hamlets, Hackney |
| E3 | LONDON | Bow district: Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, Old Ford, Mile End, 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: Upper Clapton, Lower Clapton, Stoke Newington (part) | Hackney |
| E6 | LONDON | East Ham district: East Ham, Beckton, Upton Park (part), Barking (part) | Newham, Barking and Dagenham |
| E7 | LONDON | Forest Gate district: Forest Gate, Stratford (part) | Newham, Waltham Forest |
| E8 | LONDON | Hackney district: Hackney Central, Dalston, London Fields | 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, Blackwall, Cubitt Town | 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 district: Silvertown, North Woolwich, Canning Town, Custom House, London City Airport, | Newham |
| E17 | LONDON | Walthamstow district: Walthamstow, Upper Walthamstow | Waltham Forest |
| E18 | LONDON | Woodford district: Woodford, South Woodford | Redbridge |
| E20 | LONDON | Olympic Park district: Olympic Park Stratford, Homerton, Leyton, Bow and, fictionally, Eastenders | 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 |
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.
| Adjacent postcode areas | ||
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| EN | ||
| N | E | IG |
| EC | SE | |
Clockwise from the east, the adjacent postcode areas are: IG (Ilford), SE (London SE), EC (London EC), N (London N), EN (Enfield). The postcode area does not cover all of east London; the remainder is covered by the RM (Romford) and IG postcode areas. Some parts of Hackney are in the N postcode area.
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