E8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

731 of the district's 1,346 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 51.54379, -0.06611, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in E8

Companies House lists 6,900 companies with a registered office in E8; 2,505 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 E8

• Greater London
• London
• Hackney
• Bethnal Green
• Tower Hamlets
• Islington

Roads filed under E8

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.

• Abbot Street
• Abersham Road
• Acer Road
• Acton Mews
• Ada Street
• Aitken Close
• Albion Drive
• Albion Square
• Albion Terrace
• Alvington Crescent
• Amhurst Passage
• Amhurst Road
• Amhurst Terrace
• Andre Street
• Andrews Road
• Angrave Passage
• Anna Close
• Anton Street
• Appleby Road
• April Street
• Arbutus Street
• Arcola Street
• Ashanti Mews
• Ash Grove
• Ashwin Street
• Atlas Mews
• Bayford Street
• Beck Road
• Beechwood Road
• Beehive Close
• Benjamin Close
• Birkbeck Mews
• Birkbeck Road
• Blanchard Way
• Blundell Close
• Bocking Street
• Bodney Road
• Bohemia Place
• Booth Close
• Bowness Close
• Brett Passage
• Brett Road
• Broadway Market
• Broadway Market Mews
• Broke Walk
• Brougham Road
• Brownlow Road
• Bush Road
• Buttermere Walk
• Buxted Road
• Byron Close
• Camerton Close
• Carlise Walk
• Casterton Street
• Cecilia Road
• Celandine Drive
• Charterhouse Road
• Chester Crescent
• Chow Square
• Clarissa Street

Check an address in E8

Check an address in E8

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=E8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about E8

What does an E8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the E8 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 731 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 E8

• E21.6 km
• E91.7 km
• E51.9 km
• N162.2 km
• N12.2 km
• N52.5 km
• EC2A2.6 km
• EC1V2.9 km
• EC1Y2.9 km
• E13.0 km
• EC2M3.1 km
• EC2Y3.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids