London E20 postcode - Home to the Olympic Park and Eastenders
For many years the postcode London E20 only existed fictionally as the suburb
of Walford in BBC's soap drama EastEnders, but is now the postcode of the new
London Olympic Park. The main Olympic Stadium postcode is E20 2ST. The postcode
E20 also covers neighbouring areas including the residential apartments in the
Athletes Village and Westfield Stratford City shopping Centre which resides at
E20 1EJ. These latest additions to the postcode system have been introduced by
the Royal Mail 150 years after the world’s first postcodes were introduced in
London. Over 100 postcodes have already been allocated to developments across
the Olympic Park, with each postcode covering up to 99 addresses. So far E20 1,
E20 2 and E20 3 have been introduced with the option for sectors 4 - 9 to be
incorporated, with up to 8,000 homes expected to be built over the next 20
years.
The creation of the new E20 postcode district will be a permanent residence for
London's third hosting of the Olympic Games, and with the development of first
of five planned new neighbourhoods to start in 2013, it ensures a unique and
sought after location for home buyers, which will be renamed the “Queen
Elizabeth Olympic Park” after the Olympics is over.
The popular BBC television soap opera “EastEnders” has been airing since 1985
and is set in and around “Albert Square”, located in the fictional London
borough of Walford in London's East End with the (former) fictional postcode of
E20 which is now home to the new London Olympic Park. Much of the drama revolves
around the market place and the nearby pub the Queen Victoria or the “Queen Vic”
as its affectionately referred to by the locals. Eastenders also has a fictional
tube station, Walford East, which is located on the EastEnders tube map in the
position normally occupied by the real Bromley-by-Bow tube station. The show is
actually filmed at Borehamwood in north-west London.
