KW1 5QL
Wick and East Caithness · Highland · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
- Postcode district
- KW1
- Postcode sector
- KW1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- KW1 5QL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- KW
- Postcode district
- KW1
- Postcode sector
- KW1 5
- Latitude
- 58.436458
- Longitude
- -3.090831
- British National Grid easting
- 336,408
- British National Grid northing
- 950,312
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Highland · S12000017
- Electoral ward
- Wick and East Caithness · S13002992
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross · S14000069
- Output area
- S00162241
- Lower layer super output area
- Wick South - 04 · S01017955
- Middle layer super output area
- Wick South · S02003330
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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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