DG8 6BQ
Mid Galloway and Wigtown West · Dumfries and Galloway · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Postcode district
- DG8
- Postcode sector
- DG8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DG8 6BQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DG
- Postcode district
- DG8
- Postcode sector
- DG8 6
- Latitude
- 54.903806
- Longitude
- -4.461499
- British National Grid easting
- 242,274
- British National Grid northing
- 559,339
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Dumfries and Galloway · S12000006
- Electoral ward
- Mid Galloway and Wigtown West · S13002881
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway · S14000073
- Output area
- S00146965
- Lower layer super output area
- Machars South - 01 · S01015180
- Middle layer super output area
- Machars South · S02002813
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+
- 57.1%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 57.1%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 57.1%
- Gigabit-capable
- 57.1%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 42.9%
- Next Generation Access
- 57.1%
- 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
Carsegowan Farm
BCT · Wigtown
- 0.4 miles
Carsegowan Farm
BCT · Wigtown
- 0.6 miles
Causeway End
BCT · Carse of Clary
- 0.6 miles
Causeway End
BCT · Carse of Clary
- 1.3 miles
Baltersan Road End
BCT · Newton Stewart