RM8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

587 of the district's 805 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 51.55713, 0.12934, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in RM8

Companies House lists 4,243 companies with a registered office in RM8; 151 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 RM8

• London
• Greater London
• Barking and Dagenham
• Barking
• Redbridge

Roads filed under RM8

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.

• Academy Way
• Adomar Road
• Ager Avenue
• Agnes Gardens
• Aidan Close
• Albert Road
• Aldington Close
• Alex Guy Gardens
• Alleyndale Road
• Amidas Gardens
• Angle Green
• Armstrong Close
• Asquith Close
• Aylmer Road
• Babington Road
• Banner Lane
• Baron Road
• Becontree Avenue
• Bennett's Castle Lane
• Benning Drive
• Bentry Close
• Bentry Road
• Berryman Close
• Blomville Road
• Blunden Close
• Bonham Gardens
• Bonham Road
• Boulton Road
• Bowes Road
• Bragg Close
• Brendon Road
• Brewood Road
• Brittain Road
• Brooking Close
• Bryce Road
• Burbridge Close
• Burford Close
• Burnside
• Burnside Road
• Bushgrove Road
• Bushway
• Butler Road
• Calvert Mews
• Campden Crescent
• Campden Way
• Campus Avenue
• Chadway
• Chancellor Way
• Charlecote Road
• Chitty's Lane
• Claridge Road
• College Way
• Constable Mews
• Coote Gardens
• Coote Road
• Coppen Road
• Cories Close
• Cornshaw Road
• Cornworthy Road
• Cotesmore Gardens

Check an address in RM8

Check an address in RM8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=RM8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about RM8

What does an RM8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the RM8 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 587 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 RM8

• RM91.9 km
• IG32.0 km
• RM62.1 km
• RM102.4 km
• RM73.4 km
• IG113.5 km
• IG13.9 km
• IG23.9 km
• RM14.7 km
• IG65.2 km
• E125.3 km
• RM125.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids