Hanwell is the district that W7 is named after, and it is a district in west London: the code sits inside the borough of Ealing, with a LONDON postal town on the address and about 11.9 miles between it and the E1 centre of the city. Hanwell and part of Boston Manor are what the district is recorded as covering, and the ward lines under the code stretch further than that name does — they run through Hanwell Broadway, Northfield, North Hanwell, Norwood Green, Pitshanger and Walpole.
What W7 actually covers
The district is recorded as Hanwell, with part of Boston Manor included in the same code. Underneath, six ward lines make up the addressable ground: Hanwell Broadway, Northfield, North Hanwell, Norwood Green, Pitshanger and Walpole. The authority for all of them is Ealing, so the whole district is planned against one council.
Read those ward names carefully and notice what they say. Three of them carry Hanwell in the name, and three do not — Norwood Green, Pitshanger and Walpole are named for places the outcode reaches into rather than for Hanwell itself. The district name describes the centre of the code; the ward lines describe how far it actually runs.
Distance from the middle of London is about 11.9 miles, measured from E1. The code stands on its own, with no second outcode sharing the district, so the coverage set out here is the coverage of W7 itself.
Why a Hanwell address doesn't fit a doorstep route
The first reason is that the name oversells the district. A parcel going to Walpole or to Pitshanger is going to W7, but it is not going to Hanwell in any sense a driver would recognise, and a round that leans on the district name will misjudge where its addresses are. The ward lines exist precisely because the code reaches beyond the place it is called after.
The second reason is the pattern of settlement inside those six ward lines. Hanwell Broadway points at the busy core of the district, while Northfield and North Hanwell describe the residential streets that run off it, and Norwood Green sits at the far side. A single charge covering all of that has to stretch across the whole spread.
The third is the same for any door-based route: it depends on somebody being in when it arrives, and no arrangement made in advance can promise that across a district of this size. Where the knock may go unanswered, a handover that does not need one is the practical answer.
The locker that works for W7
A W7 order is collected from an InPost locker, and the locker is chosen by you at checkout rather than allocated to your address by us. Enter the full postcode and the network comes back with the points that serve it — a Pitshanger address is not handed the cabinet that suits Hanwell Broadway, because the two are not interchangeable and the system is not asked to pretend they are.
The stated transit for this district is 2–3 working days after dispatch (InPost locker), counted from dispatch rather than from the order. Delivery is £5.00 per order in W7, and that is the entire charge on top of the price shown when you check out.
The process is online from start to finish: choose the items, type the postcode, take one of the collection points that come back, and pay. You have to be 21 or over, verified once at account level so that it does not come up again at each order, and the payment is drawn from a wallet funded by card or by USDT. The London delivery guide explains how the wider city is covered, and the E1 delivery guide covers the central outcode that the network is built around.
Where the week goes for a Hanwell order
Once the order is confirmed it is dispatched within twenty-four hours, Monday to Saturday, so a basket filled on a Saturday does not sit idle until Monday morning. After that the parcel is moving through the InPost network rather than travelling to a doorstep anywhere in the district.
Two to three working days after dispatch it normally reaches the cabinet that came back from your postcode. The 72 hours it is held begin at arrival, and the compartment opens with the code sent to your phone — that window is the difference between collecting comfortably and losing the parcel back to us. Check where the point is before paying if your week rarely takes you past it.
Hanwell questions we actually get
Does a Pitshanger address at W7 share lockers with Hanwell Broadway?
No assumption of that kind is made, and it would be wrong for most of the district. Pitshanger is a ward line in the north of the code while Hanwell Broadway names the district's core, and their addresses resolve separately. The list you choose from is generated from your postcode, so two addresses in W7 can legitimately return two different collections.
Why does a Walpole or Norwood Green address need the full postcode?
Because those two ward lines are the clearest sign that W7 reaches past the district name. Norwood Green and Walpole are not Hanwell in any everyday sense, and the outcode alone cannot tell them apart from the Hanwell wards. Typing the complete postcode is what returns the collection points that actually cover an address there.
