High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walford is a fictional borough of east London in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The name Walford is both a street in Dalston where one of the series` creators, Tony Holland, lived and a blend of Walthamstow, where Holland was born, and Stratford. The suffix `ford` is also found throughout East London and Essex, for example, South Woodford). Walford`s London postcode district is E20 (real East London postcode districts only went up to E18 until 2011, when E20 was introduced to serve the London 2012 Olympic Park) and 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. Denise Fox also mentioned that Walford has another tube station called Walford West.