EH8 9BU
Southside/Newington · City of Edinburgh · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Southside/Newington
- Local authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
- Postcode district
- EH8
- Postcode sector
- EH8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EH8 9BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EH
- Postcode district
- EH8
- Postcode sector
- EH8 9
- Latitude
- 55.945648
- Longitude
- -3.186357
- British National Grid easting
- 326,004
- British National Grid northing
- 673,148
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- City of Edinburgh · S12000036
- Electoral ward
- Southside/Newington · S13002933
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh · S14000078
- Output area
- S00143312
- Lower layer super output area
- Canongate, St. Leonards and Dumbiedykes - 01 · S01014716
- Middle layer super output area
- Canongate, St. Leonards and Dumbiedykes · S02002728
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 EH8
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+
- 9.1%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 9.1%
- Gigabit-capable
- 9.1%
- 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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- 0.0 miles
Nicolson Square
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