Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. The Gilmour Centre is the nearest published school at 2.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DG11 1SH
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
- DG11
- Postcode sector
- DG11 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DG11 1SH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DG
- Postcode district
- DG11
- Postcode sector
- DG11 1
- Latitude
- 55.130726
- Longitude
- -3.524395
- British National Grid easting
- 302,903
- British National Grid northing
- 582,878
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
- S00146187
- Lower layer super output area
- Mid Nithsdale - 03 · S01015240
- Middle layer super output area
- Mid Nithsdale · S02002823
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 DG11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.4 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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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
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- 1.4 miles
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- 1.5 miles
Shaws Houses
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- 1.5 miles
Shaws Houses
BCT · Tinwald
- 1.6 miles
Shieldhill road end
BCT · Shieldhill