E20 postcode district
E20, in the E (East London) postcode area, has 234 live and 19 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 67 roads under it.
| postcode area | E (East London) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 234 |
| terminated postcodes | 19 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 67 |
| companies registered | 1,737 |
| centroid | 51.54632, -0.01065 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
234 of the district's 253 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.54632, -0.01065, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| E20 1 | 200 | 7 |
| E20 2 | 9 | 5 |
| E20 3 | 25 | 7 |
Companies registered in E20
Companies House lists 1,737 companies with a registered office in E20; 884 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.
Places OS Open Names lists for E20
- London
- Greater London
- Newham
- Hackney
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
Roads filed under E20
Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.
- Abercrombie Road
- Anthems Way
- Aquatics Walk
- Arber Way
- Brewers Lane
- Cadence Way
- Celebration Avenue
- Champions Walk
- Cheering Lane
- Cherry Park Lane
- Coopers Lane
- Coopers Row
- Copper Street
- De Coubertin Street
- Derny Avenue
- East Bank Walk
- East Bay Lane
- Elis Way
- Endeavour Square
- Forbes Lane
- Fortunes Walk
- Four Dials
- Glade Walk
- Hitchcock Lane
- Honour Lea Avenue
- Hopkins Row
- International Way
- Keirin Road
- Kingsford Row
- Layard Street
- Leadmill Lane
- Liberty Bridge Road
- Lily Way
- Logan Close
- Madison Way
- Millers Row
- Mirabelle Gardens
- Montfichet Road
- Napa Close
- Northwall Road
- Olympic Park Avenue
- Oriens Mews
- Painters Lane
- Parkes Street
- Peloton Avenue
- Penny Brookes Street
- Pool Street
- Prize Walk
- Ravens Walk
- Redman Place
- Ribbons Walk
- Roundhouse Lane
- Scarlet Close
- Southern Boulevard
- Station Lane
- Stratford Place
- Sunrise Close
- Tandy Place
- Temple Mills Lane
- Temple Mills Road
all 67 roads
- The Street
- Turing Street
- Victory Parade
- Villiers Gardens
- Weavers Row
- Westfield Avenue
- West Park Walk
Check an address in E20
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=E20" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about E20
- What does an E20 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the E20 district of the E (East London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 234 live postcodes.
Where the counts come from
- ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
- os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0
What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.
Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.
Districts nearest E20
- E151.2 km
- E92.2 km
- E32.3 km
- E102.4 km
- E72.6 km
- E113.0 km
- E133.3 km
- E53.3 km
- E83.8 km
- E24.0 km
- E124.4 km
- E144.5 km
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