EH1 2HX
City Centre · City of Edinburgh · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- City Centre
- Local authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
- Postcode district
- EH1
- Postcode sector
- EH1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EH1 2HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EH
- Postcode district
- EH1
- Postcode sector
- EH1 2
- Latitude
- 55.946570
- Longitude
- -3.196954
- British National Grid easting
- 325,344
- British National Grid northing
- 673,262
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- City of Edinburgh · S12000036
- Electoral ward
- City Centre · S13002929
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh · S14000078
- Output area
- S00143247
- Lower layer super output area
- Old Town, Princes Street and Leith Street - 02 · S01014711
- Middle layer super output area
- Old Town, Princes Street and Leith Street · S02002727
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 EH1
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 21.4%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 21.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 21.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 21.4%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 21.4%
- 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
- 0.1 miles
West Port
BCT · Old Town
- 0.1 miles
Grassmarket
BCT · Old Town
- 0.1 miles
Grassmarket
BCT · Old Town
- 0.1 miles
Lauriston Building
BCT · Lauriston
- 0.1 miles
West Port
BCT · Old Town