Map of DG8 6AW postcode

General information
Postcode DG8 6AW
Post Town Newton Stewart
Nearest station Barrhill (25 km)
Bus stops
Hole-in-the-Wall (SE)
McGregor Drive (NW)
Dunkitterick Drive (SW)
Bruce Place (SE)
New Galloway Rd (SE)
New Galloway Rd (NW)
Number of UPRNs 20 View
Businesses
No businesses found
Geography
Latitude 54.959298
Longitude -4.473718
Easting 241710
Northing 565541
Grid reference NX417655
UTM reference 30U 405636 6091255
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Plus code 9C6QXG5G+PG
Altitude 19 metres (61 feet)
Sunrise (today) 6:39
Sunset (today) 18:18
Distance away
Distance to sea 2.6 KMs (1.6 miles)
Administrative areas
Ward Mid Galloway and Wigtown West S13002881
Council Area Dumfries and Galloway S12000006
Constituency (2024) Dumfries and Galloway S14000073
MPJohn CooperConservative
Police forceScotland
Water companyScottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3 Dumfries and Galloway
NUTS/ITL 2 Southern Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1 Scotland
Country Scotland S92000003
Data
Date introduced May 1986
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)
2,705 / 6,976
Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urbanRemote small town
Census output area (2021)S00146933
Census output area (2011)S00097682
Lower layer super output area (2011)Newton Stewart - 06S01007518
Middle layer super output area (2011)Newton StewartS02001412
Travel to work areaNewton StewartS22000072
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