This page provides postcode data for the City of London UK London Borough.

The Centre of London is given the letter 'C' for CENTRAL, and is split into WC1 (where WC stands for West Central), WC2, EC1 (East Central), EC2, EC3, EC4. For anyone who doesn't know London that system is a little misleading. The EC1-4 postcodes are actually referred to now as the 'City of London'.

May 28, 2026 - The London postal district is the ... to the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units, with the early loss of two compass points and a minor retraction in 1866. It was integrated by the Post Office into the national postcode system of ...

Complete list of postcodes in Greater London. Map of Greater London postcode areas and postcode districts.

2 days ago - That code no longer exists in the ... UK. In London (as postally defined), postal districts created and mapped in 1917 remain unchanged today despite Greater London, created in April 1965, covering a much larger administrative area. The London post town covers 40% of Greater London and the remaining. Additionally, there were too few postcodes available to meet the level of demand of addresses in districts in central London ...

Lookup Postcode - Zip Code - Postal Code of address in London on map. Find postcode by address or by point doing click on map. Drag to change point.

December 13, 2024 - Postcodes for London, including all postal towns in London. Full information and postcode data for this UK county.

July 5, 2024 - In London and the UK we use postcodes, not pincodes. But they serve the same purpose: identifying geographic areas for mail delivery and navigation. A valid UK postcode is in the format I’ve explained above, such as: N1-8DU.

May 22, 2026 - If you are sending a mail to friends and family in London, the easiest way to figure out their address (including postcodes) is to ask them. You can also use the Royal Mail’s postcode finder. When addressing a letter London or England, you can use the below format. It is the valid address format for all of UK.

Either enter a postal code (eg. "9011", "AB1", "9980-999") or a city (eg. "London")

October 31, 2025 - A 5-digit zip code for London or the UK (better known as a postcode) doesn’t always cover your bases. London postal codes range between 5 and 7 alpha and numeric values, so the 5-digit rule doesn’t necessarily apply like it does in the United States. There are some postcodes that contain 5 digits, but don’t assume that your postcode is correct as soon as you hit that 5-digit mark! There are about 1.8 million valid postcodes in the UK alone, with London itself encompassing over 600 square miles and including over 34,000 postal codes.

Answer (1 of 13): That depends on your definition of “central”. Simon Greenwood’s answer is a good one, referring to the two central London postcodes EC1A and WC1A, so you could probably consider that the postal centre of London. By tradition, some say the centre of London is the Charles ...

Our address and postcode information is held in the Postcode Address File (PAF®). PAF is regulated in the UK by Ofcom.

E1 Whitechapel, Stepney, Mile End E2 Bethnal Green, Shoreditch E3 Bow, Bromley-by-Bow E4 Chingford, Highams Park E5 Clapton E6 East Ham (also covers Beckton) E7 Forest Gate, Upton Park E8 Hackney, Dalston E9 Hackney, Homerton (includes South Hackney) E10 Leyton E11 Leytonstone (also covers Wanstead) E12 Manor Park E13 Plaistow E14 Poplar, Millwall (also covers Isle of Dogs) E15 Stratford, West Ham E16 Victoria Docks & North Woolwich (also covers Canning Town) E17 Walthamstow E18 Wanstead & South Woodford (most of Woodford itself is covered by postcode area IG8, outside the London postal districts)

An example postcode for Central London (Westminster) is W1K 3JP (JSON). Point-to-boundary mapping for the UK.

E1: Mile End, Stepney, Whitechapel E2: Bethnal Green, Shoreditch E3: Bow, Bromley-by-Bow E4: Chingford, Highams Park E5: Clapton E6: East Ham, Beckton E7: Forest Gate, Upton Park E8: Hackney, Dalston E9: Hackney, Homerton E10: Leyton E11: Leytonstone E12: Manor Park E13: Plaistow E14: Isle of Dogs, Millwall, Poplar E15: Stratford, West Ham E16: Canning Town, North Woolwich E17: Walthamstow E18: South Woodford E20: Olympic Park, Stratford · N1: Barnsbury, Canonbury, Islington N2: East Finchley N3: Finchley Central N4: Finsbury Park, Manor House N5: Highbury N6: Highgate N7: Holloway N8: Crouch

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The letters in the postcode can provide hints about the location's general direction from the city centre. For example, postcodes that start with "E" are generally found in the east of London, while those starting with "SW" are in the southwest.

However, geographically the numbering appears arbitrary as, for instance, NW1 is central, but NW2 is far out and doesn't border NW1. This is because, when the numbered system was first introduced in 1917, the postcodes numbered 1 (E1, NW1, W1, SW1, SE1) were most central, then subsequent numbers ...

July 10, 2024 - Well, simply put, they’re the UK’s equivalent of a zip code. It goes at the end of the address and helps the postal service send it to the correct office and the right postal route! There are plenty of streets in London that have the same or similar names, so it can get confusing at the sorting office. Postal codes, or postcodes as they’re more commonly referred to, help prevent your parcel or letter from going to the wrong place.