KW16 3HE
West Mainland · Orkney Islands · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Mainland
- Local authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland
- Postcode district
- KW16
- Postcode sector
- KW16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- KW16 3HE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- KW
- Postcode district
- KW16
- Postcode sector
- KW16 3
- Latitude
- 58.987332
- Longitude
- -3.144484
- British National Grid easting
- 334,323
- British National Grid northing
- 1,011,697
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Orkney Islands · S12000023
- Electoral ward
- West Mainland · S13002735
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Orkney and Shetland · S14000051
- Output area
- S00170657
- Lower layer super output area
- West Mainland - 02 · S01019092
- Middle layer super output area
- West Mainland · S02003535
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 KW16
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
- 20%
- 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.
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- 1.4 miles
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