AB42 3EB
Central Buchan · Aberdeenshire · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Central Buchan
- Local authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
- Postcode district
- AB42
- Postcode sector
- AB42 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AB42 3EB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AB
- Postcode district
- AB42
- Postcode sector
- AB42 3
- Latitude
- 57.514426
- Longitude
- -1.882361
- British National Grid easting
- 407,147
- British National Grid northing
- 847,146
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Aberdeenshire · S12000034
- Electoral ward
- Central Buchan · S13002851
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East · S14000062
- Output area
- S00137750
- Lower layer super output area
- Longside and Rattray South - 01 · S01014106
- Middle layer super output area
- Longside and Rattray South · S02002620
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
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Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 11.1%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 11.1%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 11.1%
- Gigabit-capable
- 11.1%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Willowbank Centre
BCT · Torterston
- 0.6 miles
Bridge of Faichfield
BCT · Longside
- 0.6 miles
Bridge of Faichfield
BCT · Longside
- 0.7 miles
Glendaveny
BCT · Torterston
- 0.7 miles
Glendaveny
BCT · Torterston