London postcodes (in America known as zip codes)

 Definition:

London postcodes do not correspond with London districts, but do give you a clue to the geographical location of an address.

* E is for East
* S is for South
* SW is for South-West
* SE is for South-East
* W is for West
* WC is for West Central
* NW is for North-West
* N is for North

Unfortunately, the number after the first letter/s does not correspond to the distant from the center, as it does in most other cities. It refers to the position of the first letter of the district in the alphabet.

Full postcodes end with a digit and two letters, which specify the exact street , or end of a street.

This is a list of postcodes and the districts they relate to that you may come across on a trip to London.

(Be aware, there are more!):
WC1 = Bloomsbury
WC2 = Covent Garden, Holborn, and Strand
EC1 = Clerkenwell
EC2 = Bank, Barbican and Liverpool Street
EC3 = Tower Hill and Aldgate
EC4 = St. Paul's, Blackfriars and Fleet Street
W1 = Mayfair, Marylebone and Soho
W2 = Bayswater
W4 = Chiswick
W6 = Hammersmith
W8 = Kensington
W11 = Notting Hill
SW1 = St. James's, Westminster, Victoria, Pimlico and Belgravia
SW3 = Chelsea
SW5 = Earl's Court
SW7 = Knightsbridge and South Kensington
SW11 = Battersea
SW19 = Wimbledon
SE1 = Lambeth and Southwark
SE10 = Greenwich
SE16 Bermondsey and Rotherhithe
SE21 = Dulwich
E1 = Whitechapel and Wapping
E2 = Bethnal Green
E3 = Bow
N1 = Islington and Hoxton
N5 = Highbury
N6 = Highgate
NW1 = Camden Town
NW3 = Hampstead