Schools
1 open school is in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Merchiston Castle School is the nearest published school at 4.3 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EH9 3HJ
Southside/Newington · City of Edinburgh · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Southside/Newington
- Local authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South
- Postcode district
- EH9
- Postcode sector
- EH9 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EH9 3HJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EH
- Postcode district
- EH9
- Postcode sector
- EH9 3
- Latitude
- 55.923214
- Longitude
- -3.187863
- British National Grid easting
- 325,867
- British National Grid northing
- 670,653
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 South · S14000080
- Output area
- S00144640
- Lower layer super output area
- Blackford, West Mains and Mayfield Road - 01 · S01014619
- Middle layer super output area
- Blackford, West Mains and Mayfield Road · S02002712
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 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.3 km
Merchiston Castle School
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 347 m
Maurice Place
BCT · Mayfield
- 352 m
Maurice Place
BCT · Mayfield
- 361 m
Oswald Road
BCT · The Grange
- 398 m
Eva Place
BCT · Mayfield
- 401 m
Oswald Road
BCT · The Grange