Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Katharines School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
KY16 8PL
St Andrews · Fife · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Andrews
- Local authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife
- Postcode district
- KY16
- Postcode sector
- KY16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- KY16 8PL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- KY
- Postcode district
- KY16
- Postcode sector
- KY16 8
- Latitude
- 56.326256
- Longitude
- -2.765734
- British National Grid easting
- 352,744
- British National Grid northing
- 715,139
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Fife · S12000047
- Electoral ward
- St Andrews · S13002962
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- North East Fife · S14000100
- Output area
- S00153774
- Lower layer super output area
- Boarhills and Kingsbarns · S01016835
- Middle layer super output area
- Crail and Boarhills · S02003128
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.9 km
St Katharines 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+
- 91.2%
- 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
- 94.1%
- 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
- 0.0 miles
Farm Road End
BCT · Brownhills
- 0.1 miles
Farm Road End
BCT · Brownhills
- 0.3 miles
Balmungo Steadings
BCT · St Andrews
- 0.3 miles
Balmungo Steadings
BCT · St Andrews
- 0.3 miles
Castle Course
BCT · Kingask