Map of the CM postcode area
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Overview
This page brings together mapped and statistical information for the CM postcode area, also known as the Chelmsford postal area.
The CM postcode area covers Chelmsford and nearby parts of Eastern England.
The postcode area borders the following neighbouring postcode areas: SS - Southend-on-Sea, CO - Colchester, CB - Cambridge, SG - Stevenage, RM - Romford, EN - Enfield and IG - Ilford. It also borders The Blackwater and The Thames Estuary.
The postcode area falls within the following counties: Essex (92.41%), Hertfordshire (7.57%), Greater London (0.01%).
Quick facts
| Width east to west | 40.68 mi |
|---|---|
| Height north to south | 32.31 mi |
| Area | 698.31 mi² |
| Maximum width | 41.72 mi |
| Perimeter | 219.41 mi |
| Postcode districts | 28 |
| Postcode sectors | 98 |
| Post towns | 16 |
| Postcodes | 18,036 |
| Population | 653,492 |
The CM postcode area has a population of 653,492 and covers 1,791,944 hectares. Roughly 1.01% of the population of Great Britain lives here.
Post towns and postcode districts
Where is the CM postcode area?
How built up is the postcode area?
This compares building footprint coverage against the total land area across each postcode district. The least urban district is CM5 and the most urban is CM18.
| Postcode district | Total area (m²) | Footprint area (m²) | Built percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| CM5 | 100,294,180 | 901,978 | 0.90% |
| CM0 | 125,300,839 | 1,272,730 | 1.02% |
| CM6 | 192,329,200 | 2,027,045 | 1.05% |
| CM22 | 99,255,763 | 1,175,138 | 1.18% |
| CM4 | 65,931,943 | 854,956 | 1.30% |
| CM3 | 260,364,372 | 3,867,025 | 1.49% |
| CM9 | 142,692,185 | 2,303,291 | 1.61% |
| CM77 | 58,200,629 | 1,046,702 | 1.80% |
| CM16 | 64,394,063 | 1,269,638 | 1.97% |
| CM7 | 124,322,119 | 2,512,308 | 2.02% |
| CM21 | 24,375,321 | 561,825 | 2.30% |
| CM17 | 38,287,122 | 1,018,812 | 2.66% |
| CM13 | 53,331,663 | 1,512,169 | 2.84% |
| CM8 | 58,532,456 | 1,730,664 | 2.96% |
| CM14 | 29,477,197 | 962,170 | 3.26% |
| CM24 | 20,174,927 | 668,871 | 3.32% |
| CM1 | 97,169,990 | 3,262,448 | 3.36% |
| CM11 | 31,332,075 | 1,071,074 | 3.42% |
| CM15 | 37,995,420 | 1,351,272 | 3.56% |
| CM23 | 51,715,179 | 2,043,351 | 3.95% |
| CM12 | 22,285,947 | 1,110,763 | 4.98% |
| CM2 | 51,514,990 | 2,841,129 | 5.52% |
| CM19 | 17,584,894 | 1,032,278 | 5.87% |
| CM20 | 16,677,982 | 1,354,986 | 8.12% |
| CM18 | 7,980,612 | 725,978 | 9.10% |
| Total | 1,791,521,068 | 38,478,601 | 2.15% |
Area measurements
| Hectares | 1,791,944 |
|---|---|
| Square miles | 6,918.73 |
| Square feet | 192,883,060,216.00 |
| Square kilometres | 17,919.44 |
Postal delivery offices
- Althorne Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Billericay Delivery Office
- Bishops Stortford Delivery Office
- Blackmore Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Boreham Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Braintree Delivery Office
- Brentwood Delivery Office
- Burnham On Crouch Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Chelmsford Delivery Office
- Danbury Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Dunmow Delivery Office
- Elsenham Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Epping Delivery Office
- Finchingfield Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Harlow Delivery Office
- Hatfield Peverel Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Ingatestone Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Latching Delivery Office N Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Maldon Delivery Office
- Ongar Delivery Office
- Purleigh Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Sawbridgeworth Delivery Office
- Silver End Scale Payment Delivery Office
- South Woodham Ferrers Delivery Office
- Southminster Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Stansted Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Takeley Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Tollesbury Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Wethersfield Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Wickham Bishops Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Witham Delivery Office
Tourist attractions within the area
We found 9 visitor attractions within the Chelmsford postcode area.
| Epping Ongar Railway |
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| Railways |
| Steam / Heritage Railway |
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| The Gardens of Easton Lodge |
| Gardens |
| Garden |
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| John Webb's Windmill |
| Historic Properties |
| Other Historic Property |
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| Blanket Hall |
| Historic Properties |
| Other Historic Property |
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| Great Dunmow Maltings |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Ingatestone Hall |
| Historic Properties |
| Historic House / House and Garden / Palace |
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| RHS Garden Hyde Hall |
| Gardens |
| Garden |
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| Thames Barge Sailing Trust |
| Historic Properties |
| Other Historic / Scenic Transport Operator |
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| Topsail Charters Ltd |
| Historic Properties |
| Other Historic / Scenic Transport Operator |
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Neighbouring context
The postcode area borders the following neighbouring postcode areas: SS - Southend-on-Sea, CO - Colchester, CB - Cambridge, SG - Stevenage, RM - Romford, EN - Enfield and IG - Ilford. It also borders The Blackwater and The Thames Estuary.
Towns and villages within the area
- Abbess Roding — village
- Allen's Green — village
- Althorne — village
- Ardley End — village
- Asheldham — village
- Bannister Green — village
- Bardfield End Green — village
- Bardfield Saling — village
- Barnston — village
- Basildon — town
- Beacon Hill — village
- Bedlar's Green — village
- Berden — village
- Bicknacre — village
- Billericay — town
- Birchanger — village
- Bishop's Stortford — town
- Black Notley — village
- Blackmore — village
- Blackmore End — village
- Boreham — village
- Boyton Cross — village
- Bradwell — village
- Bradwell on Sea — village
- Bradwell Waterside — village
- Braintree — town
- Brentwood — town
- Brick End — village
- Broad's Green — village
- Brock Hill — village
- Broomfield — village
- Broxted — village
- Burnham-on-Crouch — town
- Burton End — village
- Causeway End — village
- Chatham Green — village
- Chelmsford — city
- Chignall St James — village
- Chipping Ongar — town
- Church End — village
- Clatterford End — village
- Coalhill — village
- Cock Clarks — village
- Cold Norton — village
- Coopersale — village
- Cornish Hall End — village
- Coxtie Green — village
- Crays Hill — village
- Cressing — village
- Danbury — village
- Doddinghurst — village
- Doddinghurst Common — village
- Downham — village
- Duton Hill — village
- East Hanningfield — village
- Eastwick — village
- Edney Common — village
- Elsenham — village
- Epping — town
- Epping Green — village
- Farnham — village
- Felsted — village
- Ford End — village
- Foster Street — village
- Fryerning — village
- Fuller Street — village
- Fyfield — village
- Galleywood — village
- Gamble's Green — village
- Gilston — village
- Goldhanger — village
- Good Easter — village
- Great Bardfield — village
- Great Braxted — village
- Great Dunmow — town
- Great Easton — village
- Great Hallingbury — village
- Great Leighs — village
- Great Notley — village
- Great Saling — village
- Great Totham — village
- Great Waltham — village
- Great Warley — village
- Harlow — town
- Hastingwood — village
- Hatfield Broad Oak — village
- Hatfield Heath — village
- Hatfield Peverel — village
- Havering's Grove — village
- Henham — village
- Herongate — village
- Heybridge Basin — village
- High Easter — village
- High Garrett — village
- High Ongar — village
- High Roding — village
- High Wych — village
- Hoddesdon — town
- Hook End — village
- Howe Green — village
- Howe Street — village
- Ingatestone — village
- Ingrave — village
- Kelvedon Hatch — village
- Langford — village
- Latchingdon — village
- Leaden Roding — village
- Lindsell — village
- Little Baddow — village
- Little Bardfield — village
- Little Burstead — village
- Little Canfield — village
- Little Dunmow — village
- Little Easton — village
- Little End — village
- Little Hallingbury — village
- Little Leighs — village
- Little Totham — village
- Little Waltham — village
- Little Warley — village
- Loves Green — village
- Maldon — town
- Manuden — village
- Margaret Roding — village
- Margaretting — village
- Mashbury — village
- Matching Green — village
- Matching Tye — village
- Mayland — village
- Maylandsea — village
- Mill End — village
- Mill End — village
- Mill Green — village
- Molehill Green — village
- Monk Street — village
- Moreton — village
- Mountnessing — village
- Mundon — village
- Navestock Side — village
- Nine Ashes — village
- Noak Hill — village
- North End — village
- North Fambridge — village
- North Weald Bassett — village
- Nounsley — village
- Ostend — village
- Panfield — village
- Pleshey — village
- Purleigh — village
- Ramsden Bellhouse — village
- Ramsden Heath — village
- Ramsey Island — village
- Rayne — village
- Rettendon — village
- Rivenhall — village
- Rivenhall End — village
- Romford — Urban Area
- Roundbush — village
- Roxwell — village
- Roydon — village
- Roydon Hamlet — village
- Salcott-cum-Virley — village
- Sandon — village
- Sawbridgeworth — town
- Shalford — village
- Sheering — village
- Shelley — village
- Silver End — village
- Smith's Green — village
- South Hanningfield — village
- South Weald — village
- South Woodham Ferrers — town
- Southminster — town
- Spellbrook — village
- Stansted Mountfitchet — town
- Start Hill — village
- Stebbing — village
- Steeple — village
- Stisted — village
- Stock — village
- Stondon Massey — village
- Stoneyhills — village
- Stow Maries — village
- Takeley — village
- Takeley Street — village
- Terling — village
- Thaxted — town
- Theydon Bois — village
- Thorley Street — village
- Thornwood Common — village
- Tillingham — village
- Tollesbury — village
- Tolleshunt D'Arcy — village
- Tolleshunt Knights — village
- Tolleshunt Major — village
- Toot Hill — village
- Tye Green — village
- Ugley — village
- Ugley Green — village
- West Hanningfield — village
- West Horndon — village
- Wethersfield — village
- White Notley — village
- White Roding / White Roothing — village
- Wickford — town
- Wickham Bishops — village
- Willingale — village
- Willows Green — village
- Witham — town
- Woodham Ferrers — village
- Woodham Mortimer — village
- Woodside Green — village
- Writtle — village
- Wyatt's Green — village