AB42 5BU
Central Buchan · Aberdeenshire · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Central Buchan
- Local authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan
- Postcode district
- AB42
- Postcode sector
- AB42 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AB42 5BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AB
- Postcode district
- AB42
- Postcode sector
- AB42 5
- Latitude
- 57.507016
- Longitude
- -2.013557
- British National Grid easting
- 399,287
- British National Grid northing
- 846,315
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
- Gordon and Buchan · S14000091
- Output area
- S00137744
- Lower layer super output area
- Mintlaw - 01 · S01014069
- Middle layer super output area
- Mintlaw · S02002613
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
Explore AB42
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 77.8%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 77.8%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 77.8%
- Gigabit-capable
- 77.8%
- 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
- 1.0 miles
Briar Gardens
BCT · Mintlaw
- 1.1 miles
Brae Crescent
BCT · Mintlaw
- 1.1 miles
The Beeches
BCT · Mintlaw
- 1.1 miles
The Beeches
BCT · Mintlaw
- 1.2 miles
Academy Gardens
BCT · Mintlaw