RM20 postcode district
RM20, in the RM (Romford) postcode area, has 161 live and 95 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 86 roads under it.
| postcode area | RM (Romford) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 161 |
| terminated postcodes | 95 |
| sectors | 4 |
| roads listed | 86 |
| companies registered | 1,024 |
| centroid | 51.47852, 0.28450 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
161 of the district's 256 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.47852, 0.28450, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| RM20 1 | 3 | 7 |
| RM20 2 | 12 | 5 |
| RM20 3 | 88 | 54 |
| RM20 4 | 58 | 29 |
Companies registered in RM20
Companies House lists 1,024 companies with a registered office in RM20; 33 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.
Places OS Open Names lists for RM20
- Thurrock
- Eastern
- West Thurrock
- South Stifford
- Purfleet-on-Thames
- Grays
Roads filed under RM20
Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.
- Abberton Way
- Angle Road
- Arterial Road West Thurrock
- Askews Farm Lane
- Barclay Way
- Bay Manor Lane
- Breach Road
- Broadstone Way
- Brompton Walk
- Burnley Road
- Buttermere Way
- Carrowmore Close
- Central Avenue
- Chapel Close
- Charlotte Place
- Charlton Street
- Chase Way
- Colliford Road
- Cosgrove Road
- Credo Way
- Cygnet View
- Devonshire Road
- Dovestone Close
- Draper Close
- Draycote Road
- Eastern Avenue
- East Street
- Elm Terrace
- Essex Road
- Euclid Way
- Fifth Avenue
- First Avenue
- Flint Street
- Florence Close
- Fourth Avenue
- Fox Field Close
- Fox Manor Way
- Foxton Road
- Gardner's Way
- Grebe Crest
- Gumley Close
- Gumley Road
- Hayes Close
- Hedley Avenue
- Heron Way
- Hillcrest Avenue
- Hilltop Road
- Jodrell Way
- Jubilee Road
- Killarney Crescent
- Lake Rise
- London Road
- London Road West Thurrock
- Loweswater Way
- Magnet Road
- Manor Road
- Mill Lane
- Moore Avenue
- Motherwell Way
- Oakley Close
all 86 roads
- Oliver Close
- Oliver Road
- Palmerston Gardens
- Palmerston Road
- Park Avenue
- Parsonage Road
- Porter Close
- Quarry Way
- Queen Elizabeth II Bridge
- Sandy Lane
- Sartoria Close
- Schoolfield Road
- Schoolfield Way
- Second Avenue
- South View Road
- St Clement's Avenue
- St Clement's Road
- St Clement's Way
- Stoneness Road
- The Chase
- The Rookery
- Third Avenue
- Watson Close
- Weston Avenue
- West Thurrock Way
- A1090
Check an address in RM20
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=RM20" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about RM20
- What does an RM20 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the RM20 district of the RM (Romford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is West Thurrock. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 161 live postcodes.
Where the counts come from
- ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
- os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0
What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.
Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.
Districts nearest RM20
- RM192.8 km
- RM173.0 km
- RM153.4 km
- DA93.5 km
- RM164.2 km
- DA104.3 km
- DA16.2 km
- DA26.2 km
- RM186.5 km
- DA116.7 km
- DA87.6 km
- RM138.2 km
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