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	~~==External links==~~
	*[https://www.poweredbypaf.com/ Royal Mail's Postcode Address File]
	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180926234202/https://www.poweredbypaf.com/how-the-royal-mail-postcode-address-file-paf-helps-organisations-verify-their-customers-identities/ A quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)]

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{{short description|Postcode area within the United Kingdom}}
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{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox UK postcode area|area_code=IG}}
The '''IG postcode area''', also known as the '''Ilford postcode area''',<ref>Royal Mail,'''Ilford Grounds area''', ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)</ref> is a group of eleven postcode districts in [[England]], within six [[post town]]s. 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 postcode area|E]] and [[RM postcode area|RM]] postcode areas, at the Romford Mail Centre.

Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill are covered by Woodford Green Royal Mail Delivery Office <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/7870/response/20023/attach/2/Delivery%20Offices%20by%20postcodes.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1|title = List of UK Delivery Offices - a Freedom of Information request to Royal Mail Group Limited|date = 10 February 2009}}</ref>

==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|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:<ref name="Map">{{cite book |title=London Postcode and Administrative Boundaries |publisher=Geographers A-Z Map Co Ltd |date=2013}}</ref>
{{postcode area table start}}
! IG1
| ILFORD
| [[Ilford]], [[Cranbrook, London|Cranbrook]], [[Loxford]] (part)
| [[London Borough of Redbridge|Redbridge]]
|-
! IG2
| ILFORD
| [[Gants Hill]], [[Newbury Park, London|Newbury Park]], [[Aldborough Hatch]]
| Redbridge
|-
! IG3
| ILFORD
| [[Seven Kings]], [[Goodmayes]]
| Redbridge
|-
! IG4
| ILFORD
| [[Redbridge, London|Redbridge]]
| Redbridge
|-
! IG5
| ILFORD
| [[Clayhall]]
| Redbridge
|-
! IG6
| ILFORD
| [[Fairlop]], [[Barkingside]], [[Chigwell]], [[Hainault, London|Hainault]] (south)
| Redbridge
|-
! IG7
| CHIGWELL
| [[Chigwell]], [[Chigwell Row]], [[Hainault, London|Hainault]] (north)
| [[Epping Forest (district)|Epping Forest]], Redbridge
|-
! IG8
| WOODFORD GREEN
| [[Woodford Green]], [[Woodford Bridge]], [[Highams Park]] (part)
| Redbridge, [[London Borough of Waltham Forest|Waltham Forest]]
|-
! IG9
| BUCKHURST HILL
| [[Buckhurst Hill]]
| Epping Forest
|-
! IG10
| LOUGHTON
| [[Loughton]], [[High Beach]] (part)
| Epping Forest
|-
! IG11
| BARKING
| [[Barking, London|Barking]], [[Barking Riverside]], [[Beckton]] (part), [[Creekmouth]], [[Loxford]] (part), [[Thames View]], [[Upney]]
| [[London Borough of Barking and Dagenham|Barking and Dagenham]], [[London Borough of Newham|Newham]], Redbridge
|}

==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 postal district|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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Scrivens |first=Louise |date=5 April 2005 |title=The power of the postcode |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4409163.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=5 April 2005}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Powell |editor-first=W.R. |year=1973 |title=A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp163-174 |publisher=[[Victoria County History]] |pages=163–174 |access-date=14 December 2007}}</ref>

== Map ==
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{{Postcode area imagemap|map=IG postcode area|size=245x350px}}

==See also==
*[[Postcode Address File]]
*[[List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.poweredbypaf.com/ Royal Mail's Postcode Address File]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180926234202/https://www.poweredbypaf.com/how-the-royal-mail-postcode-address-file-paf-helps-organisations-verify-their-customers-identities/ A quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)]

{{Postcode areas in the United Kingdom}}
{{London postcode areas}}

[[Category:Postcode areas covering London]]
[[Category:Postcode areas covering the East of England]]
[[Category:Media and communications in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham]]
[[Category:Media and communications in the London Borough of Redbridge]]
[[Category:Epping Forest District]]

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