Before the London Zip code system, people would add a basic address to a letter and hope that it would arrive in the right place. The postal reforms in 1840 and the rapid growth of London’s population led to a greater volume of letters.
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Abbey Road NW8 Abbey Wood SE2 Acton W3 Acton Green W4 Acton Town W5 Addington CR0 Aldersbrook E12 Aldersgate EC1 Aldgate EC3 Aldgate East E1 Aldwych WC2 Alexandra Palace N22 Alexandra Park N22 All Saints E14 Alperton HA0 Anerley SE20 Angel EC1 Archway N19 Arkley EN5 Arsenal N5 Avery Hill SE9
B
Baker Street NW1 Balham SW12 Balls Pond Road N1
Barbican EC2 Barking IG11 Barking & Dagenham RM8 Barkingside IG6 Barnes SW13 Barnes Bridge SW13 Barnet EN5 Barnsbury N1 Barons Court W6 Battersea SW11 Bayswater W2 Bayswater Road W2 Beckenham BR3 Beckton E6 Becontree RM9 Becontree Heath RM8 Beddington SM6 Beddington Corner CR4
Belgravia SW1 Bellingham SE6 Belmont SM2 Belsize Park NW3 Belvedere DA17
Bethnal Green E2 Bexley DA15
Bickley BR1 Biggin Hill TN16 Billingsgate EC3 Bishopsgate EC2 Blackfriars EC4 Blackheath SE3 Blackheath Park SE3 Blackhorse Road E17 Blackwall E14 Bloomsbury WC1 Bond Street W1 Borough SE1
Bostall Woods SE2 Boston Manor TW8 W7
Botany Bay EN2 Bounds Green N11 Bow E3 Bow Church E3 Bow Road E3
Brent HA9 Brent Cross NW11 Brentford TW8 Brixton SW2 Broad Street EC2 Broadgate EC2 Brockley SE4 Bromley BR1 Bromley By Bow E3 Bromley Common BR2
Brompton Road SW3 Brondesbury NW6 Brondesbury Park NW6 Brook Green W14 Buckingham Palace SW1 Bulphan RM14 Burnt Oak HA8 Bushey Mead SW20 Bushy Park TW12
C
Caledonian Road N7 Camberwell SE5
Camden Lock NW1 Camden Town NW1
Canning Town E16 Cannon Street EC4 Canonbury N1 Capel Manor EN2 Carshalton SM5 Castlenau SW13 Catford SE6 Chalk Farm NW3 Chancery Lane WC2 Charing Cross WC2 Charlton SE7 Cheam SM3 Cheapside EC2
Chelsea Embankment SW3 Chelsfield BR6 Chessington KT9 Cheyne Walk SW10 Childs Hill NW2 Chingford E4 Chingford Green E4 Chingford Hatch E4 Chislehurst BR7 Chislehurst Caves BR7 Chiswick W4 Chiswick High Road W3 Chiswick House W4 Chiswick Park W4
Church End N3 NW10 City Of Westminster W1A W2
Clapham SW4 Clapham Common SW4 Clapham Junction SW11 Clapham North SW4 Clapham South SW12 Clapton E5 Clapton Park E5 Clerkenwell EC1 Cockfosters EN4 Coldblow DA5 Coldharbour E14 Coldharbour Lane SW9 Colindale NW9 Collier Row RM5 Colliers Wood SW19 Colney Hatch N12 Commercial Road E1 Copse Hill SW20 Copthall NW4 Cottenham Park SW20 Coulsdon CR5 Covent Garden WC2 Cowley UB8 Cranford TW5 Cranham RM14 Cranley Gardens N10 Crayford DA1 Creekmouth IG11 Cricklewood NW2 Crofton Park SE4
Croydon CR0 CR7 CR9 CR90 Crystal Palace SE19 SE26
Cubitt Town E14 Cudham TN14 Custom House E16 Cyprus E6
D
Dagenham RM10 Dalston E8 Dalston Junction E8 Dartmouth Park N6 Denham Green UB9 Denmark Hill SE5
Deptford High Street SE8 Devons Road E3 Docklands SE16 Dollis Hill NW2 Down House BR6 Downe BR6 Drayton Green W13 Drayton Park N5 Dulwich SE21
E
Ealing Broadway W5 Ealing Common W5 Earl’s Court SW5 Earlsfield SW18 East Acton W3
East Finchley N2 East Ham E6 East India E14 East India Dock Road E14 East Putney SW15 East Sheen SW14 East Wickham DA16 Eastbury HA6 Eastcote HA5 Eden Park BR3 Edgware HA8
Edmonton N18 Elephant & Castle SE17 Elm Park RM12 Elmers End SE25 Eltham SE9 Elthorne Park W7 Embankment WC2
Erith Marshes DA17 Essex Road N1 Euston NW1 Euston Square NW1
F
Fairlop Waters IG2 Farnborough BR6 Farringdon EC1 Feltham TW13 Fenchurch Street EC3 Fenton Ho. NW3 Finchley N3 Finchley Central N3 Finchley Road NW11 Finsbury EC1 Finsbury Park N4 Fleet Street EC4 Foots Cray DA14 Forest Gate E7 Forest Hill SE23 Fortis Green N2 Fortune Green NW2 Forty Hill EN2 Friern Barnet N11 Fulham SW6 Fulham Broadway SW6
G
Gidea Park RM2 Gilwell Park E4 Gipsy Hill SE19 Gloucester Road SW7 Golders Green NW11 Golders Hill Park NW11
Goodge Street W1 Gospel Oak NW5 Goswell Road EC1 Grange Park N21 Great North Way NW4 Great Portland Street W1 Great West Road W4 Green Park SW1 Green Street Green BR6 Greenford UB6 Greenhill HA1 Greenwich SE10
H
Hackney Marshes E5 Hackney Wick E9 Hadley Wood EN4 Haggerston E2 Hainault IG6 Hale End E4 Ham TW10 Ham House TW10
Hammersmith & Fulham W5 Hampstead NW3
Hampstead Garden Suburb N2 NW11
Hampstead Heath NW3 Hampton TW12 Hanger Lane W5 Hanwell W7 Hanworth TW13 Harefield UB9
Harlesden NW10 Harmondsworth UB7 Harold Hill RM3 Harold Wood RM3
Harringay N4 N8 Harrow HA2 HA2
Harrow On The Hill HA1 Harrow Weald HA3 Hatch End HA5 Hatton TW14 Havering RM12 Havering-Atte-Bower RM4 Haydons Road SW19
Hendon NW4 Hendon Central NW4 Herne Hill SE24 Heron Quays E14 Heston TW5 High Barnet EN5 High Holborn WC1 High Street Kensington W8 Higham Hill E17 Highams Park E4 Highbury N5 Highbury And Islington N5 Highgate N6 Highgate Wood N6 Highwood Hill N20 Hillingdon UB10 Hither Green SE13
Holborn Viaduct EC1 Holders Hill NW4
Homerton E9 Honor Oak SE22 Honor Oak Park SE23 Hook KT9 Hooley CR5
Horniman Museum SE23 Hornsey N8 Hornsey Lane N6 Hornsey Rise N19 Hornsey Vale N8 Horseferry Road SW1
Hounslow Central TW3 Hounslow East TW3 Hounslow West TW3 Hoxton N1
I
Island Gardens E14 Isleworth TW7
Islington EC1P EC4P EC50 N1 N1C N1P N7
K
Kensal Town W10 Kensington W8 Kensington & Chelsea W14 Kensington Gore SW7 Kentish Town NW5 Kenwood House N6 Keston BR2 Kew TW9 Kew Gardens TW9 Kidbrooke SE3 Kilburn NW6 Kilburn Park NW6 King’s Cross WC1
Kingston Upon Thames KT1 TW10
Knightsbridge SW1 Knockholt Station BR6
L
Ladbroke Grove W10 W11 Ladywell SE13 SE4 Lambeth SE1 SE11 SW4 SW95
Lambeth North SE1 Lancaster Gate W2 Latimer Road W10 Lavender Hill SW11
Leaves Green BR2 Lee SE12 Lee Green SE12 Leicester Square WC2 Lesnes Abbey SE2
Leyton E10 Leyton Marshes E10 Leytonstone E11 Limehouse E14 Lisson Grove NW8 Little Ilford E12 Liverpool Street EC2 Locksbottom BR6
London EC1A W1W W1B W1C W1D W1F W1G W1H W1J W1K W1S W1T W1U WC1A SW1X WC1B WC1E WC1H WC1N WC1R WC1V WC1X WC2A WC2B WC2E WC2H WC2N SW1Y SW1W EC1M EC3A EC1N EC1R EC1V EC1Y EC2A EC2M EC2N EC2P EC2R EC2V EC2Y EC3M SW1V EC3N EC3P EC3V EC4A EC4M EC4N EC4R EC4V EC4Y SW1E SW1H SW1P WC2R
London Arena E14 London Bridge SE1 London Wall EC2 Longford UB7 Loughborough Junction SW9 Lower Clapton E5 Lower Holloway N7 Lower Place NW10 Lower Sydenham SE26 Ludgate Hill EC4
M
Malden KT4 Malden Rushett KT9 Manor House N4 Manor Park E12 Mansion House EC4 Marble Arch W1 Marble Hill TW1 Marks Gate RM6
Mile End E3 Mile End Road E1 Mill Hill NW7 Mill Hill East NW7 Millwall E14 Mitcham CR4 Monken Hadley EN5 Monument EC3 Moorgate EC2 Morden SM4 Morden Hall Park SM4 Mornington Crescent NW1 Mortlake SW14 Mottingham SE9 Mount Pleasant WC1 Mudchute E14
N
Neasden NW10 New Addington CR0 New Barnet EN5 New Cross SE14 New Cross Gate SE14 New Eltham SE9 New Kent Road SE1 New Malden KT3 New Southgate N11
Nine Elms SW8 Noel Park N22 Norbiton KT2 Norbury SW16 North Acton NW10 North Cray DA14 North Dulwich SE24 North Ealing W5 North End NW11 North Finchley N12 North Harrow HA2 North Kensington W10 North Ockendon RM14 North Woolwich E16 Northfields W13 Northolt UB5 Northwood HA6 Norwood SE19 Norwood Green UB2 Norwood Junction SE25 Notting Hill W11 Notting Hill Gate W11 Nunhead SE15
O
Oakleigh Park N20 Oakwood N14 Old Ford E3 Old Kent Road SE1 Old Oak Common NW10 Old Street EC1 Olympia W14 Orpington BR6 Osidge N14 Osterley TW7 Osterley Park TW7 Oval SE11 Oxford Circus W1 Oxford Street W1
P
Paddington W2 W9 Palmers Green N13 N14
Park Lane W1 Park Royal NW10 Parsons Green SW6 Peckham SE15 Peckham Rye SE15 Penge SE20 Pentonville N1 Perivale UB6 Piccadilly Circus W1 Pimlico SW1 Pinner HA5 Pinner Green HA5 Plaistow E13 Plashet E7 Plumstead SE18 Ponders End EN3 Poplar E14 Pratt’s Bottom BR6 Primrose Hill NW3 Pudding Mill Lane E15 Purley CR8 Putney SW15 Putney Bridge SW6 Putney Heath SW15 Putney Vale SW15
Q
Queen’s Gate SW7 Queen’s Park NW6 Queens Road SW8 Queensway W2
R
Rainham RM13 Ranger’s House SE10 Ravenscourt Park W6 Raynes Park SW20 Redbridge IG2 Regent Street W1 Regent’s Park NW1 Regents Park NW1 Richmond TW9 Richmond Park TW10 Richmond Upon Thames TW10 Riverside SE28 Rocks Lane SW13 Roehampton SW15 Romford RM1
Royal Oak W2 Ruislip HA4 Ruislip Common HA6 Rush Green RM7 Russell Square WC1 Rye Lane SE15
S
Sanderstead CR2 Sands End SW6 Selsdon CR2 Seven Kings IG3 Seven Sisters N15 Seven Sisters Road N7 Sewardstone E4 Shacklewell E8 Shadwell E1 Shaftesbury Avenue WC2 Shepherds Bush W12 Shirley CR0
Shooter’s Hill DA16 SE18 Shoreditch E1 EC2 N1
Sidcup DA14 Silvertown E16 Sipson UB7 Slade Green DA8 Sloane Square SW1 Smithfield EC1 Snaresbrook E11 Soho W1 Somers Town NW1 South Acton W3 South Bank SE1 South Beddington SM6 South Ealing W5 South Hackney E9 South Hampstead NW6 South Harrow HA2 South Hornchurch RM13 South Kensington SW7 South Lambeth SW8 South Norwood SE25 South Quay E14 South Tottenham N15 South Wimbledon SW19 South Woodford E18 Southall UB1 Southfields SW18
Southgate N14 N21 Southwark SE1 SE1P SE5
Southwark Cathedral SE1 Spitalfields E1 St James’s Park SW1 St John’s SE8 St John’s Wood NW8 St Luke’s EC1 St Mary Cray BR5
St Paul’s EC4 St Paul’s Cray BR5 Stamford Brook W6
Stanmore HA7 Stepney E1 Stepney Green E1
Stoke Newington N16 Stonebridge NW10 Stonebridge Park NW10 Strand WC2 Stratford E15 Stratford Marsh E15 Streatham SW16 Streatham Common SW16 Streatham Hill SW2 Stroud Green N4 Sudbury HA0 Summerstown SW17
Swiss Cottage NW3 Sydenham SE26 Sydenham Hill SE21 Syon House TW8
T
Teddington TW11 Temple WC2 Temple Mills E15
The Hyde NW9 The Wrythe SM5 Tolworth KT6 Tooting Bec SW17 Tooting Broadway SW17 Tooting Graveney SW17 Tottenham N17 Tottenham Court Road W1 Tottenham Hale N17 Totteridge N20 Totteridge ( Whetstone N20
Tower Hamlets E2 E20 E77 E98
Tower Hill EC3 Tower Of London EC3R Trafalgar Square WC2 Trent Park EN4 Tufnell Park N7
Turnham Green W4 Turnpike Lane N8
U
Upminster RM14 Upper Clapton E5 Upper Edmonton N18 Upper Holloway N19 Upper Norwood SE19 Upper Sydenham SE26 Upper Tooting SW17 Upper Walthamstow E17 Upton E7 Upton Park E6 Uxbridge UB8 Uxbridge Road W5
V
Vauxhall Bridge SW1 Victoria SW1 Victoria Docks E16 Victoria Park E9
W
Walthamstow E17 Walthamstow Central E17 Walworth SE17
Wandsworth Common SW12 Wandsworth Road SW8 Wandsworth Town SW18 Wanstead E11 Wanstead Park E7 Wapping E1 Warren Street W1 Warwick Avenue W2 Warwick Park W9 Waterloo SE1 Wealdstone HA3 Well Hall SE9 Well Hill BR6 Welling DA16 Wembley HA0 Wennington RM13 West Acton W3 West Brompton SW5 West Drayton UB7 West Dulwich SE21 West Ealing W13 West Finchley N3 West Green N17 West Ham E13 West Hampstead NW6 West Harrow HA2 West Heath SE2 West Hendon NW9 West Hill SW18 West India Quay E14 West Kensington W14 West Kilburn W10 West Norwood SE27 West Wickham BR4 Westbourne Green W9 Westbourne Grove W2 Westbourne Park W10
Westferry E14 Westminster SW1 Westminster Abbey SW1A Westminster Bridge SE1 Westway W12 Whetstone N20 White City W12 White Hart Lane N17 Whitechapel E1 Willesden NW10 Willesden Green NW10 Willesden Junction NW10 Wimbledon SW19 Wimbledon Common SW15 Wimbledon Park SW19 Winchmore Hill N21 Wood Green N22 Woodford IG8 Woodford Bridge IG8 Woodford Green IG8 Woodside SE25 Woodside Park N12 Woolwich SE18 Worcester Park KT4 Wrotham Park EN5
Y
