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Postcode area in United Kingdom
The E (Eastern) postcode area, also known as the London E postcode area,[2] 🍎 is the part of the London post town covering much of east London, England. It borders the N postcode area 🍎 to the west, both north of the tidal Thames. Since closure of the East London mail centre, its mail is 🍎 sorted at Romford Mail Centre together with IG and RM postcode areas.
Postal administration [ edit ]
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.[3] As 🍎 of 2004, the district names do not form part of the postal address.[2] High demand caused sector 9 of the 🍎 E1 postcode district to be split and recoded in 1999 to create an E1W postcode district around Wapping,[4] but the 🍎 rest of the district did not gain an additional character. When 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 commonly 🍎 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 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 soap-opera EastEnders since 1985. It has been a real postcode since 2011 carved 🍎 from and only bordered by the E15 postcode, its buildings marketed as and often self-identifying as Olympic Park and Queen 🍎 Elizabeth Park. It includes landmark sports venues built for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[6]
List of postcode districts [ edit ]
The approximate 🍎 coverage of the postcode districts,[7] with the historic postal district names[8][9] in italics, is as follows:
The E17 postcode district is 🍎 one of four to have a population above 100,000.[10]
Boundaries [ edit ]
The E1 postcode district is bounded by the River 🍎 Thames to the south. 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 is roughly the combined 🍎 area of the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest. Also, the eastern part of the London Borough 🍎 of Hackney, the western sections of the London Boroughs of Redbridge (E11, E12, E18) and Barking and Dagenham (E6) and 🍎 a small part of the Epping Forest District (E4), are within the postcode area.
In popular culture [ edit ]
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.
uses E20 (which did not actually exist until 2011) 🍎 as the postcode district for the borough of Walford. The track "Bow E3" by grime musician Wiley refers to the 🍎 E3 postcode, which is centred on the area of Bow where Wiley grew up.
Map [ edit ]
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E 🍎 postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with links to nearby EC, EN, 🍎 IG, N and SE postcode areas.
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 [ edit ]
