KY8 3RA
Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages · Fife · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife
- Postcode district
- KY8
- Postcode sector
- KY8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- KY8 3RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- KY
- Postcode district
- KY8
- Postcode sector
- KY8 3
- Latitude
- 56.179181
- Longitude
- -3.018206
- British National Grid easting
- 336,889
- British National Grid northing
- 698,972
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Fife · S12000047
- Electoral ward
- Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages · S13002966
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife · S14000090
- Output area
- S00154774
- Lower layer super output area
- Lower Methil · S01016748
- Middle layer super output area
- Methil West · S02003110
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+
- 60%
- 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
- 80%
- 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
- 0.1 miles
Swan Court
BCT · Lower Methil
- 0.1 miles
Swan Court
BCT · Lower Methil
- 0.1 miles
Swan Brae
BCT · Denbeath
- 0.2 miles
Cowley Street
BCT · Denbeath
- 0.2 miles
Memorial Park
BCT · Methil