RM5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

380 of the district's 490 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 51.60128, 0.16477, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in RM5

Companies House lists 1,333 companies with a registered office in RM5; 25 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 RM5

• London
• Greater London
• Havering
• Romford
• Barking and Dagenham
• Redbridge

Roads filed under RM5

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.

• Abridge Gardens
• Adams Close
• Aragon Close
• Ascension Road
• Ash Close
• Ashvale Gardens
• Avelon Road
• Bacon Link
• Bamford Way
• Bartlow Gardens
• Bellevue Road
• Berkeley Avenue
• Birds Farm Avenue
• Bolberry Road
• Bower Close
• Boxmoor Road
• Braddock Close
• Brockley Crescent
• Broomfield Close
• Browne Close
• Browning Close
• Burchwall Close
• Burland Road
• Cardiff Close
• Carefree Close
• Carter Close
• Carter Drive
• Charlotte Gardens
• Chase Cross Road
• Chelmsford Avenue
• Chigwell View
• Clitheroe Road
• Clockhouse Lane
• Collier Row Lane
• Collier Row Road
• Conifer Avenue
• Cook's Close
• Cornell Way
• Craven Gardens
• Defoe Way
• Dekker Close
• Dereham Place
• Dhani Close
• Dominion Drive
• Dover Close
• Downham Close
• Dunster Close
• Eaton Drive
• Erith Crescent
• Faircross Avenue
• Felstead Road
• Ferndale Road
• Field Maple Mews
• Firbank Road
• Fox Close
• Frinton Road
• Fry Close
• Fuller's Lane
• Fullers Close
• Gabriel Close

Check an address in RM5

Check an address in RM5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=RM5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about RM5

What does an RM5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the RM5 district of the RM (Romford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 380 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 RM5

• RM12.4 km
• RM72.9 km
• RM23.3 km
• RM63.7 km
• RM34.1 km
• RM44.5 km
• IG75.0 km
• RM115.0 km
• IG65.4 km
• RM85.5 km
• IG36.0 km
• RM126.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids