SE8 4BY

a postcode in Lewisham

Introduced in November 2015

SE8 4BY	Normal (geographic) postcodes	Large user postcodes

The nearby postcodes map only shows currently active postcodes. Postcode markers will cluster if they are close together, which may happen in densly populated built-up areas or where single premises have multiple postcodes.

Streets Associated with SE8 4BY

Octavius Street - 63 properties, USRN 22000761

Street names are those nearest to properties in this postcode, they are not necessarily the postal address

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4784 / 51°28'42"N

Longitude: -0.0273 / 0°1'38"W

UTM Reference: 30U 706422 5707219

OS Easting: 537090

OS Northing: 177340

OS Grid: TQ370773

Location Encoding

Mapcode Local: GBR K6.HT6

Mapcode Global: VHGR7.G3YH

Open Location Code: 9C3XFXHF+93

Maidenhead Locator System: IO91xl64

Demographics

Urban/Rural Indicator: A1

major urban conurbation
a very large city or conurbation

ONS Population Classification: 3c2

Multicultural and Educated Urbanites
Diverse Educated Urban Singles
Career Progression

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD): 5552 / 32844

2nd decile
much more deprived

Demographics are based on the LSOA containing this postcode and not necessarily this postcode alone

Sun and Moon Times for SE8 4BY on Thursday 11 June 2026

Nautical twilight begins (First light)	02:43
Civil twilight begins (Dawn)	03:56
Sunrise	04:43
Transit (sun is at its highest)	12:59
Sunset	21:16
Civil twilight ends (Dusk)	22:03
Nautical twilight ends (Nightfall)	23:15

Hours of daylight today	04:13 to 21:46
Hours of darkness tonight (lighting-up time)	21:46 to 04:12
Moon Phase	Waning Crescent
Moon Rises	01:01
Moon sets	16:14

For a full sun and moon calendar for SE8 4BY, go to The Time and Place

Residential Property Sales in SE8 4BY

Date	Address	Property Type	Tenure	Price
18 October 2017	Apartment 14, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£377,000
30 June 2016	Apartment 41, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£275,000
8 April 2016	Apartment 35, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£503,500
23 March 2016	Apartment 44, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£485,000
18 March 2016	Apartment 33, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£283,500
16 March 2016	Apartment 12, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£460,000
15 March 2016	Apartment 20, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£345,000
15 March 2016	Apartment 34, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£360,400
15 March 2016	Apartment 38, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£345,000
15 March 2016	Apartment 55, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£575,000
15 March 2016	Apartment 37, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£360,400
15 March 2016	Apartment 23, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£270,000
15 March 2016	Apartment 29, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£360,400
15 March 2016	Apartment 8, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£440,000
15 March 2016	Apartment 32, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£360,400
14 March 2016	Apartment 25, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£270,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 57, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£630,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 5, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£470,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 56, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£690,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 7, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£340,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 2, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£340,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 26, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£460,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 22, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£460,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 18, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£461,500
14 March 2016	Apartment 40, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£490,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 43, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£270,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 15, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£262,500
14 March 2016	Apartment 14, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£330,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 53, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£495,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 54, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£350,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 4, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£330,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 16, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£357,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 39, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£480,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 30, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£470,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 52, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£495,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 6, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£330,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 49, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£490,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 10, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£325,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 36, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£503,500
14 March 2016	Apartment 11, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£340,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 51, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£450,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 42, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£415,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 24, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£395,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 13, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£450,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 59, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£755,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 9, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£445,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 45, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£485,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 28, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£335,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 1, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£265,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 58, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£654,750
14 March 2016	Apartment 3, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£340,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 60, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£645,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 50, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£460,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 31, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£470,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 27, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£470,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 47, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£350,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 19, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£330,000
14 March 2016	Apartment 21, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£450,000
11 March 2016	Apartment 17, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£452,000
10 March 2016	Apartment 48, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£495,000
4 March 2016	Apartment 46, Tinderbox House, 2, Octavius Street, London SE8 4BY	Flat/apartment	Leasehold	£355,000

Key to property sale icons:

	First sale of newbuild property. This includes new properties created from existing properties, such as residential conversions of commercial or agricultural property, or subdivision of a larger residential property.
	Subsequent sale of existing property.
	Standard sale at market value to private individual.
	Additional (non-standard) sale. This includes repossessions, buy-to-lets and transfers of property sold to non-private individuals.

Elected Representatives for SE8 4BY

United Kingdom Parliament

Constituency

Lewisham North

MP

Vicky Foxcroft Labour

London Assembly

Assembly Constituency

Greenwich and Lewisham

Assembly Member

Len Duvall Labour

Londonwide Members

Assembly Members

Elly Baker Labour

Emma Best Conservative

Andrew Boff Conservative

Hina Bokhari Liberal Democrat

Zoë Garbett Green

Alessandro Georgiou Conservative

Susan Hall Conservative

Lord Bailey of Paddington Conservative

Zack Polanski Green

Caroline Russell Green

Alex Wilson Reform UK

Lewisham Borough Council

London borough ward

Deptford

Councillors

David Walker Labour

Rosie Parry Labour

Dawn Atkinson Labour

Elected representative data is updated approximately monthly, so may not include recent by-elections or vacancies.

Government Statistical Services (GSS) data for SE8 4BY

Code	Name	Data Type	Data Theme	Active Since	Data Owner
E00016702		Output Areas	Statistical Building Block	1 January 2009	ONS
E00182594		Output Areas	Statistical Building Block	21 March 2021	ONS
E01003304	Lewisham 004D	Lower layer Super Output Areas	Statistical Building Block	1 February 2004	ONS
E02000656	Lewisham 004	Middle layer Super Output Areas	Statistical Building Block	1 August 2004	ONS
E02006798	Lewisham 039	Middle layer Super Output Areas	Statistical Building Block	31 December 2011	ONS
E05013719	Deptford	Electoral Wards/Divisions	Administrative/Electoral	5 May 2022	DLUHC
E09000023	Lewisham	London Boroughs	Administrative	1 January 2009	DLUHC
E12000007	London	Regions	Administrative	1 January 2009	DLUHC
E14001332	Lewisham North	Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies	Electoral	4 July 2024	LGBC
E23000001	Metropolitan Police	Police Force Areas	Other	1 January 2009	Home Office
E30000234	London	Travel to Work Areas	Other	31 July 2015	ONS
E32000008	Greenwich and Lewisham	London Assembly Constituencies	Electoral	6 May 2010	Greater London Authority
E33036868		Workplace Zones	Census	31 December 2011	ONS
E37000051	London	Local Enterprise Partnerships	Other	1 April 2020	BEIS
E38000244	NHS South East London ICB - 72Q	Sub Integrated Care Board Locations	Health	1 July 2022	ODS
E40000003	London	NHS England Regions	Health	1 April 2013	ODS
E43000213	Lewisham, unparished area	Non-Civil Parished Areas	Census	31 December 2011	ONS
E54000030	Our Healthier South East London	Integrated Care Boards	Health	1 April 2020	NHS
E56000010	South East London	Cancer Alliances	Health	1 September 2016	NHS England
E61000001	Greater London Authority	Greater London Authority	Administrative	3 July 2000	ONS
E63012161	Lewisham	Built Up Areas	Census	17 April 2024	OS
E65000001	England Non-National Park Area	England Non-National Park Area	Census	27 February 2023	ONS
E92000001	England	Country	Administrative	1 January 2009	ONS

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