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The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km2) to which mail addressed 🌧️ 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 the United Kingdom during the early 1970s and 🌧️ corresponds to the E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W and WC postcode areas. The postal district has also been 🌧️ known as the London postal area. The County of London was much smaller, at 117 square miles (300 km2), but 🌧️ Greater London is much larger at 607 square miles (1,570 km2).

History [ edit ]

Origins [ edit ]

Map of the original 🌧️ London postal district in 1857

The Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand

By the 1850s, the rapid growth of the metropolitan 🌧️ area meant it became too large to operate efficiently as a single post town.[1] A Post Office inquiry into the 🌧️ problem had been set up in 1837 and a House of Commons committee was initiated in 1843.[2] In 1854 Charles 🌧️ Canning, the Postmaster General, set up a committee at the Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand to investigate how 🌧️ London could best be divided for the purposes of directing mail. In 1856, of the 470 million items of mail 🌧️ sent in the United Kingdom during the year, approximately one fifth (100 million) were for delivery in London and half 🌧️ of these (50 million items) also originated there.[2]

The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General devised the 🌧️ area in 1856. Sir Rowland Hill[3] produced an almost perfectly circular area of 12 miles (19 km) radius from the 🌧️ central post office at St. Martin's Le Grand in central London.[3] As originally devised, it extended from Waltham Cross in 🌧️ the north to Carshalton in the south and from Romford in the east to Sunbury in the west — six 🌧️ counties at the time if including the City of London.[2] Within the district it was divided into two central areas 🌧️ and eight compass points which operated much like separate post towns. Each was named "London" with a suffix (EC, WC, 🌧️ N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW) indicating the area it covered; each had a separate head office.[3] 🌧️ The system was introduced during 1857[1] and completed on 1 January 1858.[4]

Abolition of NE and S divisions and retraction of 🌧️ E division [ edit ]

During the 1860s, following an official report by Anthony Trollope, the E division subsumed the original 🌧️ NE division (which became defunct) and the S division was split between the SE and SW divisions. In 1866, NE 🌧️ was abolished; large districts transferred to E included Walthamstow,[5] Wanstead and Leytonstone.[6] The remaining eight letter prefixes (excluding all numbers) 🌧️ were not changed.[7] In 1868 the S district was abolished and split between SE and SW.[1]

At the same time, the 🌧️ London postal district boundary was retracted in the east, when some Essex areas, including around Ilford, became part of other 🌧️ postal towns.[1][8]

The NE and S codes have been re-used in the national postcode system and now refer to the NE 🌧️ postcode area around Newcastle upon Tyne and the S postcode area around Sheffield.[7]

Numbered divisions [ edit ]

Post Office Notice re 🌧️ introduction of number codes dated 1 March 1917

In 1917, as a wartime measure to improve efficiency, the districts were further 🌧️ subdivided with a number applied to each sub-district.[1] This was achieved by designating a sub-area served most conveniently by the 🌧️ head office in each district "1" and then allocating the rest alphabetically by the name of the location of each 🌧️ delivery office.[1] Exceptionally, W2 and SW11 are also 'head districts'.

The boundaries of each sub-district rarely correspond to any units of 🌧️ civil administration: the parishes and hamlets/chapelries with chapels that traditionally define settlement names everywhere in England and Wales or the 🌧️ generally larger boroughs; despite this, postal sub-districts have developed over time into a primary reference frame. The numbered sub-districts became 🌧️ the "outward code" (first half) of the postcode system as expanded into longer codes during the 1970s.

Changes [ edit ]

Ad 🌧️ hoc changes have taken place to the organisation of the districts, such as the creation of SE28 from existing districts 🌧️ because of the construction of the high-density Thamesmead development.

High-density districts [ edit ]

Subdivisions of postcode sub-districts

Owing to heavier demand, seven 🌧️ high-density postcode districts in central London have been subdivided to create new, smaller postcode districts. This is achieved by adding 🌧️ a letter after the original postcode district, for example W1P. Where such sub-districts are used elsewhere such as on street 🌧️ signs and maps, the original unsuffixed catch-all versions often remain in use instead. The districts subdivided are E1, N1, EC 🌧️ (EC1, EC2, EC3, EC4) SW1, W1, WC1 and WC2 (each with several subdivisions). Similarly, there are solely non-geographic suffixed sub-districts 🌧️ for PO boxes in NW1 (e.g. NW1W) and SE1 (e.g. SE1P).

Relationship to London boundary [ edit ]

Greater London split into 🌧️ the London boroughs superimposed with the London postal district (red)

The London postal district has never been aligned with the London 🌧️ boundary. When the initial system was designed, the London boundary was restricted to the square mile of the small, ancient 🌧️ City of London. The wider metropolitan postal area covered parts of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex and Hertfordshire.

In 1889 a County 🌧️ of London, which was smaller than the postal district, was created from parts of Middlesex, Surrey and Kent. The bulk 🌧️ of 40 fringe sub-districts (having been numbered in 1917) lay outside its boundary including, for example: Leyton, Ealing, Totteridge and 🌧️ Wimbledon

In 1965 the creation of Greater London boundary went beyond these postal districts except for part of the parish of 🌧️ Waltham Holy Cross. The General Post Office was unwilling to follow this change and expand the postal district to match 🌧️ because of the cost.[9] Places in London's outer boroughs such as Harrow, Barnet, Wembley, Enfield, Ilford, Romford, Bexleyheath, Bromley, Hounslow, 🌧️ Richmond, Croydon, Sutton, Kingston and Uxbridge are therefore covered by parts of twelve adjoining postcode areas (EN, IG, RM, DA, 🌧️ BR, TN, CR, SM, KT, TW, HA and UB) from postal districts of 5 different counties including Middlesex whose county 🌧️ council was abolished upon the creation of the Greater London Council.

Royal Mail has a seemingly settled policy of changing postcodes 🌧️ only if there is an operational advantage to doing so, unlike the postal services of other countries[citation needed], and so 🌧️ has no plan to change the postcode system to correlate with the Greater London boundary[citation needed]. In 2003 the then 🌧️ Mayor of London expressed support for revision of postal addresses in Greater London.[10] Similarly, organisations on the fringes of the 🌧️ London postal district have lobbied to be excluded or included in an attempt to decrease their insurance premiums (SE2→DA7) or 🌧️ raise the prestige of their business (IG1-IG6→E19). This is generally futile as Royal Mail changes postcodes only in order to 🌧️ facilitate the delivery of post, and not to illustrate geographical boundaries like the postal services of other countries.[11]

The London postal 🌧️ district includes all of the City of London, Camden, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Southwark, Tower 🌧️ Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster. Almost entirely included are Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham and Waltham Forest, except for a few streets. 🌧️ Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Harrow,[12] Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Redbridge, and Richmond upon 🌧️ Thames are partly in the postal district. Havering, Hillingdon and Sutton are completely outside the postal district. Sewardstone, in postal 🌧️ district E4 and in the Epping Forest District of Essex is anomalously the only place to be outside Greater London 🌧️ but in the London postal area.

Under early abandoned price differentials it formed the inner area of the London postal region, 🌧️ one now obscure definition of Inner London — the term has however lost economic significance from the consumer viewpoint with 🌧️ the standardisation of Royal Mail pricing.[13]

Significance [ edit ]

It is common to use postal sub-districts as placenames in London, particularly 🌧️ in the property market: a property may be described as being "in N11", especially where this can be synonymous with 🌧️ a desirable location but also covers other less prestigious places. Thus sub-districts are a convenient shorthand indicator towards social status,[14][15] 🌧️ such that a 'desirable' postcode may add significantly to the value of property, and property developers have tried to no 🌧️ avail to have Royal Mail alter the boundaries of postal districts so that new developments will sound as though they 🌧️ are in a richer area, whether in capital, personal income or both.

Parliament, which first established the London postal district, then 🌧️ created the narrower County of London (1889–1965) and replaced it with the much larger Greater London. However, there has been 🌧️ very little change in London postal district boundaries. Being in a London postcode inaccurately gives a broad definition of Inner 🌧️ London.[16]

Presentation [ edit ]

All London postal districts were traditionally prefixed with the post town 'LONDON' and full stops were commonly 🌧️ placed after each character, e.g. LONDON S.W.1. Use of the full stops ended with the implementation of the national postcode 🌧️ system[citation needed]. In addition, integration of the London postal districts into postcodes means that as postcodes should be on a 🌧️ separate address line[17] (in line with other postcodes in the national system) the postal district should not now appear after 🌧️ LONDON on the same line but as the first part of the full postcode.

The presentation of the postal districts on 🌧️ street signs in London is commonplace, although not universal as each borough is individually responsible for street signs[citation needed]. Current 🌧️ regulations date from 1952 and were originally for the County of London, but were extended to Greater London in 1965. 🌧️ The section relating to postal districts reads "The appropriate postal district shall be indicated in the nameplate in signal red".[18]

List 🌧️ of London postal districts [ edit ]

The postcode district names refer to the original delivery office.[19][20] Some postcode districts have 🌧️ been further subdivided. The postcode area articles give the full coverage of each district.

Postcode area District[13] Postcode districts and district 🌧️ names E Eastern E1 Head district

E2 Bethnal Green

E3 Bow

E4 Chingford

E5 Clapton

E6 East Ham

E7 Forest Gate

E8 Hackney

E9 Homerton

E10 Leyton

E11 Leytonstone

E12 Manor 🌧️ Park

E13 Plaistow

E14 Poplar

E15 Stratford

E16 Victoria Docks and North Woolwich

E17 Walthamstow

E18 Woodford and South Woodford

E20 Olympic Park EC Eastern Central EC1 🌧️ Head district

EC2 Bishopsgate

EC3 Fenchurch Street

EC4 Fleet Street N Northern N1 Head district

N2 East Finchley

N3 Finchley

N4 Finsbury Park

N5 Highbury

N6 Highgate

N7 Holloway

N8 🌧️ Hornsey

N9 Lower Edmonton

N10 Muswell Hill

N11 New Southgate

N12 North Finchley

N13 Palmers Green

N14 Southgate

N15 South Tottenham

N16 Stoke Newington

N17 Tottenham

N18 Upper Edmonton

N19 Upper 🌧️ Holloway

N20 Whetstone

N21 Winchmore Hill

N22 Wood Green NW North Western NW1 Head district

NW2 Cricklewood

NW3 Hampstead

NW4 Hendon

NW5 Kentish Town

NW6 Kilburn

NW7 Mill Hill

NW8 🌧️ St John's Wood

NW9 The Hyde

NW10 Willesden

NW11 Golders Green Postcode area District[13] Postcode districts and district names SE South Eastern SE1 🌧️ Head district

SE2 Abbey Wood

SE3 Blackheath

SE4 Brockley

SE5 Camberwell

SE6 Catford

SE7 Charlton

SE8 Deptford

SE9 Eltham

SE10 Greenwich

SE11 Kennington

SE12 Lee

SE13 Lewisham

SE14 New Cross

SE15 Peckham

SE16 Rotherhithe

SE17 Walworth

SE18 🌧️ Woolwich

SE19 Norwood

SE20 Anerley

SE21 Dulwich

SE22 East Dulwich

SE23 Forest Hill

SE24 Herne Hill

SE25 South Norwood

SE26 Sydenham

SE27 West Norwood

SE28 Thamesmead SW South Western SW1 🌧️ Head district

SW2 Brixton

SW3 Chelsea

SW4 Clapham

SW5 Earls Court

SW6 Fulham

SW7 South Kensington

SW8 South Lambeth

SW9 Stockwell

SW10 West Brompton Battersea SW11 Head district

SW12 Balham

SW13 🌧️ Barnes

SW14 Mortlake

SW15 Putney

SW16 Streatham

SW17 Tooting

SW18 Wandsworth

SW19 Wimbledon

SW20 West Wimbledon W Western W1 Head district Paddington W2 Head district

W3 Acton

W4 Chiswick

W5 🌧️ Ealing

W6 Hammersmith

W7 Hanwell

W8 Kensington

W9 Maida Hill

W10 North Kensington

W11 Notting Hill

W12 Shepherds Bush

W13 West Ealing

W14 West Kensington WC Western Central WC1 🌧️ Head district

WC2 Strand

Map [ edit ]

KML is from Wikidata

LONDON post town map, showing postcode districts in red and the single 🌧️ post town in grey text for E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W and WC London postcode areas, with links 🌧️ to nearby BR, CM, CR, DA, EN, HA, IG, KT, RM, SM, TW, UB and WD postcode areas.

Detailed map of 🌧️ postcode districts in central London

The area covered is 241 square miles (620 km2).[13]

London postal region [ edit ]

The E, EC, 🌧️ N, NW, SE, SW, W and WC postcode areas (the eight London postal districts) comprise the inner area of the 🌧️ London postal region and correspond to the London post town.

The BR, CM, CR, DA, EN, HA, IG, SL, TN, KT, 🌧️ RM, SM, TW, UB, and WD (the 15 outer London postcode areas) comprise the outer area of the London postal 🌧️ region.[21]

The inner and outer areas together comprised the London postal region.[13]

References [ edit ]

Additional information

Postcodes, British Postal Museum and Archive

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