KW15 1AW
Kirkwall West and Orphir · Orkney Islands · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland
- Postcode district
- KW15
- Postcode sector
- KW15 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- KW15 1AW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- KW
- Postcode district
- KW15
- Postcode sector
- KW15 1
- Latitude
- 58.983839
- Longitude
- -2.958688
- British National Grid easting
- 344,995
- British National Grid northing
- 1,011,140
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Orkney Islands · S12000023
- Electoral ward
- Kirkwall West and Orphir · S13003152
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Orkney and Shetland · S14000051
- Output area
- S00170684
- Lower layer super output area
- West Kirkwall - 06 · S01019107
- Middle layer super output area
- West Kirkwall · S02003537
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 100%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
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Kirkwall Hotel
BCT · Kirkwall
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Harbour Street
TXR · Kirkwall
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Kirkwall
- 0.1 miles
Ferry Terminal
BCT · Kirkwall
- 0.1 miles
Kirkwall Shapinsay Ferry Terminal
FTD · Kirkwall