DD8 2AX
Forfar and District · Angus · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Forfar and District
- Local authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens
- Postcode district
- DD8
- Postcode sector
- DD8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DD8 2AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1978
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DD
- Postcode district
- DD8
- Postcode sector
- DD8 2
- Latitude
- 56.639756
- Longitude
- -2.883191
- British National Grid easting
- 345,929
- British National Grid northing
- 750,120
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Angus · S12000041
- Electoral ward
- Forfar and District · S13002869
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens · S14000065
- Output area
- S00139804
- Lower layer super output area
- Forfar Central - 05 · S01014280
- Middle layer super output area
- Forfar Central · S02002650
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 62.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 62.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 62.5%
- 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.
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