Local services in Romford
Visitors, students and residents of Romford can find information about local services and amenities or visit Events to find out more about local events or Local Traders about local tradespeople.
Romford is a great place for holiday shopping and has many independently owned stores and high-street chains selling a vast range of goods.
There are also a number of specialist shops, including jewellers, art galleries, toy stores, antiques dealers and seaside gift shops, as well as countless boutiques.
Romford is a large town in East London and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Havering. The town is served by Romford railway station in London fare zone 6. Trains calling at the station are formed of the high-frequency Liverpool Street - Shenfield local TfL Rail service. Some Greater Anglia services to/from Southend Victoria and Colchester Town also call at the station. A branch line shuttle on the Romford to Upminster Line connects Romford to Upminster, operated by London Overground. Romford had an airport for passenger flights in the early 1930s located at Maylands Aerodrome. This is now the site of Maylands Golf Club on the A12. Regular services to Clacton were operated by E.H. Hillman using Puss Moth and Fox Moth aircraft and The Midland & Scottish Air Ferries operated regular flights from Romford to Glasgow. The local newspapers for the town and the borough of Havering are the Romford Recorder, Romford and Havering Post and Romford Yellow Advertiser. Two radio stations are located in the area: Time 107.5 and Bedrock.
