What's Your London Postcode?
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2015
- An animated history about how London's postcodes evolved: when they were first established, why's there's no 'NE' or 'S', and what's the newest London postcode to be created?
This was a question that was asked in our 'What you always wanted to know about London", series: londonist.com/2015/08/why-is-t...
Original article on Londonist for this video: londonist.com/2015/11/video-wh...
Great video :) During my London years I lived in N4, HA0, SE1, SW4, W3, E8, E3, E14 and E1. Best one was Clapham and I liked Limehouse area too. Biggest pain was living in Harrow and working at Leicester Sq, what a pain🤐 regardless, good times in London ☝️
Literally always wondered why the postcodes were so odd and not London-ish at all... definitely just had a 'mind blown' moment!!!
SE reigns supreme.
My guy
How about N1
Yes man! 👏🏻
MAH MAN!
Another important point. The original postal Head District, usually the centre, in each area was 1 (except for W), followed by numbering the rest alphabetically, not geographically, within Head Districts. Some exceptions:
SW had 2 different head districts, so it has two different alphabetical runs Brixton to West Brompton and the Balham to West Wimbledon (within Battersea head district).
SE has two alphabetical runs and a couple of exceptions (e.g. SE19 Norwood, which was probably the postal Head District of the S area, and SE 28 which was divided from SE2)- the codes 20-27 appear to be the original S areas.
This might explain why the new E district is E20 not E19 (it is out of alpha sequence)
NW11 (Golders Green)- which was divided from NW4
NW1 always my favourite, lived, worked and studied there!
Great stuff. How about an explanation of the whole code?
0:07 those road names are super popular, The Drive is the only one that I've never heard of round here in telford
Great video !!!
Currently live in E11, but I grew up in KT15, which is outside London, but inside the M25. some KT post codes, of course, are inside London's current boundaries.
The post code area E20 has, of course, existed since 1985, and is the code for the fictional Walford area in EastEnders.
Given that the highest E post code before that was E18, I wonder they they didn't use E19 for the Olympic Park area.
E20 has been used before, of course - it's been the Post Code for Walford since 1985 - The Eastenders set!
Alas, I do not have a London postcode...comes from living in Texas :-). BUT...you mentioned that there were some street signs that still bore the defunct NE postcode. Perhaps a series on obscure street and road signs around London might be fun?
At the moment SE1, but I've lived in E15, SW10, SE16, and N4. SE1 is definitely my favourite postcode so far :p
W8
Sounds impressive until you realise that in full it's W8 5HN, a company-specific postcode for my uni :(
Apologies if this has already been asked, but when they created the new postcode for the Olympic park why did they skip over E19 to give Stratford City it's E20 postcode? Or is E19 being reserved for a future development I don't know about?...
I don't understand why you've just given me your address?...
Keviin Linch
ye they just skiped E 19 they chose E 20 because of eastenders. there was talk about changing the IG postcodes in the brough of redbridge to E one of which would have been E 19 but this never happened
Loren Alleyne If it were up to me... id spread the london postcodes over all the boroughs to avoid confusion
Possibly to be clear it was out of alphabetical order?
I can't say because I never lived in the London postcode area. But I lived in a suburb of a historic essex town in Greater London that had the postcode of IG3
Has the 'City Of London' (Square Mile) ? Always been EC1?
mine's a greater London postcode, being SM1. However it can be call a "London Postcode" as it is in the "London Borough of Sutton".
SM4 here!
+Jacob Oxford (Derr1) where's "here"?
Morden
+Jacob Oxford (Derr1) it's amazing how much area the London Borough of Sutton covers...
Yeah, Sutton covers a lot. I live right on the boundary on Sutton and Merton, literally the next road is Merton. What's more confusing is that my postcode is SM4 but my address says Morden.
I know if you go to Victoria Park Hackney you will see a street that says NE
Smart1529 Victoria park is in tower hamlets
All the other outer london places with postcodes like ig,rm,ub are actually the outskirts of counties like barking, Romford, Chigwell are the outskirts of Essex, places like Northolt are the outskirts of Surrey etc
Northolt is outskirts of Middlesex.
No it’s not
TW3 is always my favourite
Ireland got a new postcode system (called Eircode) that is a world first because every letterbox in the country has it's own unique postcode. Example, a building containing 24 apartments, that one building has 24 postcodes.
IG8 - Woodford Green, London Borough of Redbridge. Used to be IG9 - Buckhurst Hill, Essex District of Epping Forest.
You forgot N1C for King's Cross Central
All postcodes I lived in London past 8 years now we’re : E15, SE27, E7, NW10 and DA7.
NW2 - not far from Gladstone Park :) Been here since 1981...long before it got all 'posh' and expensive! ;)
Mine is EN3 for Enfield its in north London but it isn't mentioned in this video its in the London Borough of Enfield is it a London postcode
You DO live in London, yes! Enfield is a London Borough.
+Londonist Ltd but what I don't understand is why it's called EN and not N(north) or NW
It explains why in the video? EN areas where not in the original London postcode area.
Postcodes and post towns have nothing to do with local government or county council administrative areas. In fact you no longer need to include a county as part of a correct postal address.
If for example you look at the CR, that's the Croydon postcode area, you'll find that whilst it covers most of the London Borough of Croydon, but not all of it, it also covers parts of the London Boroughs of Bromley, Merton, and Sutton, plus parts of the Surrey boroughs of Tandridge, and Reigate and Banstead. Some people in these Surrey areas object to having a Croydon postcode, on grounds of snobbery in alot of cases I think.
On the other hand if you take Biggin Hill which is in Greater London you'll see it has a TN (Tonbridge, Kent) postcode as has Rye, Hastings, and Bexhill miles away on the Sussex coast.
Im from IG6 barkingside but its right next to IG1 ilford
Mine doesn’t have a one like ones in Newcastle or Sheffield but it’s The Clock House, Berriman Road, London N7
At some point in the 90s my old post code of CR4 was swapped with CR7. I can't imagine the amount of confusion and lost mail tha would have created.
Why are there so many roads called parks like, park road, newlands park, kidbrooke park road, lewisham park...
I don't understand why these London postcodes were cut off from the outskirts. Never understood why I was SM6
Roughly draw the London County Council Boundary Instead and it is fairly close.
But wait, my postcode is BT93 1UA. Does London not have full post codes?
But they cover about 1 to 100 properties, we are not giving away the street we live in, just the postal area.
mine in N19 in Islington
Born in E7... Living in Newcastle now though. ⚒️
UB6 in the London borough of Ealing. And a minute from Sudbury Town Underground.
Good video
currently se1, but i've lived in n4, se16, nw2, nw10, sw9 and e15
se1 is the best!
I used to live in SW16, but iI have since moved out of London into Surrey, but for some strange reason I have a CR postcode.
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Yes, it is a Croydon postcode, but my local council is Surrey/Tandridge and I definitely don't live in Greater London (I have checked). I think it is a bit wierd to have a postcode for the London Borough of Croydon in Surrey.
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I don't live in Croydon, I live in Tandridge. I just have a Croydon postcode, that is it, which is what I thought was wierd, especially as there is no involvement with Croydon whatsoever.
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Yes, that is another wierd one. I wonder what system is used for postcoding these areas? And what decides the boundaries?
***** Another interesting point. Grange Hill tube station on the Central Line is in the county of Essex and is not in London by any means, but for some reason it is in zone 4!
+bakedbeanishdragon Postal areas can be very large, and have little to do with any other official boundaries. It is the postal district with Croydon as its head sorting office, it has nothing to do the the London borough of Croydon, which in postal addresses is still usually referred to as being in Surrey.
So the Olympic Park is in Eastenders then?! ;) Poor Eastenders, they made Walford's postcode E20 as there was no E20 and now it's been created
***** There was indeed! That's why I twigged so fast that it was the EastEnders postcode! Even had some hip remixes of the theme song!
+midgetflynn if you remember a few years ago, there was a double hander episode, between Stacey and Max, at the end of that episode it zoomed out of walford to the end credits, and indeed showed that walford was located near to the olympic park (pretty cool effects actually)
Hy honey
midgetflynn I mean Walford Easy if you look on the maps in the show is in Bow, so it’s not far
N22 and N18, then SW17- what a switch!
KT6 is mine. Sadly no underground in Kingston
I'm pretty sure I already saw this.
+Nilguiri That would have been this video: ua-cam.com/video/7BP8mn2g05Q/v-deo.html
+Londonist Ltd
Exactly!
Cheers.
SE18, the Woolwich and Plumstead area.
Where u mate im se2
RM1 is obviously the most popular postcode in the whole of London.
A Person more like essex
Read This it’s an Essex postcode tilbury and grays have the same one
@Read This probably referring to TfL Rail, or Crossrail, are ya?
Fucking hell not this again if u think its in essex or london its ok itsur opinion innit
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RM1 covers an area of Romford. Since Romford is in a London Borough and not in the ceremonial county of Essex, it stands to reason that RM1 is in London not Essex.
I live in Chesterfield and my postcode is S40 3JR and house number 40
Doggy thanks for that info mate
Put the kettle on!
don't leak yr address
my one is HA6 for Northwood
Mine is NW5 4AB
Very interesting!
Mine's N2 so the Second most important
I live in SW19
DA1 idf i want to go on the tube i need to have a long southeastern journey to london bridge.
Mine is SW1A 2AA
Wheres N1C?
Elllm Kings Cross
WC!
EN4 in Cockfosters, North London.
The postcode E20 is fictionaly in East Enders
N19 since 2017
mines IG but I don't live within greater London, I live just outside it
I live in TW3, been born in TW3 and raised on TW3
Originally SE19 but SM4 Now
60154, a super British town in America
Used to be CR5, not anymore. I'm RH19 now....
En1 (enfield) just at the tip of London before you reach Hertfordshire and Essex (waltham abby)
EN1,2,3,4 is everything in the Borough of Enfield except Edmonton and Southgate. EN 5 is in Barnet. EN 9 covers Waltham Abbey and Nazeing (Essex). EN5 is Potters Bar. EN7,8,10,11 all cover the Borough of Broxbourne (Hertfordshire).
The EN postcode is the Middlesex postcode. Not actually London.
@@Great_WesternTVFan actually its london Middlesex look it up
ub1 but e3 for uni
+Londonist Ltd mine is N1 for Islington
home:W2 3PN
Work:10 Brock St, NW1 3FG
Used to live in E1 now live in IG11
Postcode is 5157, I live in Australia.
Andrew Head mine is 3011
Andrew Head were talking about London not that century
Rlly
Mine is 3056
Most people (foreigners in particular) along with the metropolitan boroughs would call that place "London"
I live in Sutton.
Why do some old street signs in west London just have W on them, and not W followed by a number? They don't look old enough to be pre-1917.
they either are, or were changed during WW2 so incoming German invaders would not know where they were.
I'm the NE colony north of the Wall
hasn't EastEnders been using the E20 postcode for years?
E15 represent
NW10
I live in Leyton E17 7PW it use to be essex
VolvoTrident wtf leyton never used to be essex😂😂😂😂 plus leyton is e10 Walthamstow is e17
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Both Leyton and Walthamstow were in Essex until 1965.
@@factsnotfiction103 my bad. The whole Waltham forest used to be essex but it's not like Ilford where some idiots will still call it Essex up until now.
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It is strange that some people still refer to Ilford as Essex since it too stopped being part of the county in 1965.
from SE14 to SE1
So you're telling me that E4 should be called Sewardstone?! Not quite as catchy as Dave.
What I will never understand is that the National Postal Services of other countries have managed to align their major city’s postal codes with the city’s administrative divisions. Look at cities like: New York, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul etc. the address of every part of every "borough" in those cities has the proper city address and postal code. All of the outer London boroughs should have "London" in the address and be covered by the N, E, SE, SW, W or NW postcode! Why can the UK not do what other countries can?
It doesn't matter at all. It doesn't make any difference what your postcode is, and postcodes in Britain tell you which street or block of flats or hamlet you live in, which makes searching for addresses quicker and easier. You don't even have to write the county on the envelope so I couldn't care less what my postcode actually is
N4 - finsbury park represent
Mine is SE15
yes ilfords
TW since im just outside the original postcode area
No wonder, theres no NE. I live in NE london
LE is my postcode because Leicestershire
I live in biggin hill (bromley) but my postcode is tn16
TN is Tonbridge, which is in Kent. Kind of unusual that you live within the Greater London area but have that postcode...
E16 always have been always will be
My postcode is TF2 which is Telford
*insert Team Fortress 2 joke here*
@@smokey8301 yep. Im not a fan of it but I know you can say TF2 for short when mentioning this ;)
SE 3
Greenwich or kidbrooke???
Newcarstle please Geoff.
SW1V for the win
Se1
Last time I visited London my hotel was in Earl's Court, SW5. The time before that, Leinster Square, W2. Not far from the fake house the District Railway people built.
n22
live in ig but the house next to mine is e18
TN16 Kent post code but come under the London borough of Bromley
mine is E16
UB1. But you couldn't be any further from Uxbridge!
Malcolm Lancaster Maybe that can be Southall or Greenford.
Aboubasakio Fire it's in Southall