Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. The Gilmour Centre is the nearest published school at 2.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DG1 3SA
Lochar · Dumfries and Galloway · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lochar
- Local authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
- Postcode district
- DG1
- Postcode sector
- DG1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DG1 3SA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DG
- Postcode district
- DG1
- Postcode sector
- DG1 3
- Latitude
- 55.076875
- Longitude
- -3.497597
- British National Grid easting
- 304,483
- British National Grid northing
- 576,849
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Dumfries and Galloway · S12000006
- Electoral ward
- Lochar · S13002887
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale · S14000074
- Output area
- S00146342
- Lower layer super output area
- Lochmaben - 01 · S01015308
- Middle layer super output area
- Lochmaben · S02002837
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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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.1 km
The Gilmour Centre
Offshore schools
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
- 1.1 miles
Rokele Drive
BCT · Collin
- 1.1 miles
Junction
BCT · Collin
- 1.1 miles
Rokele Drive
BCT · Collin
- 1.1 miles
Junction
BCT · Collin
- 1.2 miles
Linns Road Bus Shelter
BCT · Torthorwald