Map of DG8 6AS postcode

General information

Postcode	DG8 6AS
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Barrhill (25 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	A714 A75 Wigtown Road
Number of UPRNs	6 View
Businesses	CRAFTY SCOTTISH DISTILLERS LTD

Geography

	Latitude	54.949766
	Longitude	-4.479207
	Easting	241321
	Northing	564493
	Grid reference	NX413644
	UTM reference	30U 405262 6090202
	what3words	trophy.website.prospered
	Plus code	9C6QWGXC+W8
	Altitude	20 metres (66 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:39
	Sunset (today)	18:18
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	2.1 KMs (1.3 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Mid Galloway and Wigtown West	S13002881
Council Area	Dumfries and Galloway	S12000006
Constituency (2024)	Dumfries and Galloway	S14000073
MP	John Cooper	Conservative
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	Dumfries and Galloway
NUTS/ITL 2	Southern Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	January 1980
Last updated	February 2025
User type	Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality	Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean

Demographics

Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,327 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146965
Census output area (2011)	S00097392
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Machars South - 01	S01007506
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Machars South	S02001411
Travel to work area	Newton Stewart	S22000072

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