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Ilford
Postcode area
IG
Coordinates: 51°35′13″N 0°04′19″E / 51.587°N 0.072°E / 51.587; 0.072
Country	United Kingdom
Postcode area	IG
Postcode area name	Ilford
Post towns	6
Postcode districts	11
Postcode sectors	35
Postcodes (live)	5,979
Postcodes (total)	10,011
Statistics as at May 2020

The IG postcode area, also known as the Ilford postcode area, is a group of eleven postcode districts in England, within six post towns. These cover parts of eastern Greater London and south-west Essex.

Postal administration

Inward mail for the area is sorted, along with mail for the E and RM postcode areas, at the Romford Mail Centre.

Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill are covered by Woodford Green Royal Mail Delivery Office

Coverage

The area served includes much of the London Borough of Redbridge, the western part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, and the southwestern part of the Epping Forest district of Essex, while the western part of IG8 and IG11 covers a small part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, and the London Borough of Newham.

List of postcode districts

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts is as follows:

Ilford campaign

In 2005, a local businessman named Wilson Chowdhry led a campaign for Ilford's IG1 postcode to be changed to E19. Although Ilford has been part of Greater London since 1965, it is not within the London post town. Chowdhry argued that the IG1 postcode confused customers, and that a London E postcode would help bring more business into Ilford. However, a Royal Mail spokesman said that the campaign had "virtually no hope" of succeeding, as postcodes are only changed for operational reasons.

A similar plea had been raised in the 1970s by Greater London Council politician Serge Lourie, and similarly rejected. Ilford had been part of the original E division of the London postal district from 1857 until 1866.

Map

See also

• Postcode Address File
• List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom

References

1. "ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. May 2020. Table 2. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Coordinates from mean of unit postcode points, "Code-Point Open". OS OpenData. Ordnance Survey. February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
2. Royal Mail,Ilford Grounds area, Address Management Guide, (2004)
3. "List of UK Delivery Offices - a Freedom of Information request to Royal Mail Group Limited" (PDF). 10 February 2009.
4. London Postcode and Administrative Boundaries. Geographers A-Z Map Co Ltd. 2013.
5. Scrivens, Louise (5 April 2005). "The power of the postcode". BBC News. Retrieved 5 April 2005.
6. Powell, W.R., ed. (1973). A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6. Victoria County History. pp. 163–174. Retrieved 14 December 2007.

External links

• Royal Mail's Postcode Address File
• A quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)

• Postcode areas covering London
• Postcode areas covering the East of England
• Media and communications in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
• Media and communications in the London Borough of Redbridge
• Epping Forest District