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LD3 8YE
Maescar and Llywel · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Brecon
- Ward
- Maescar and Llywel
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD3 8YE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 8
- Latitude
- 51.934414
- Longitude
- -3.658716
- British National Grid easting
- 286,060
- British National Grid northing
- 227,511
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Maescar and Llywel · W05001159
- Parish or community
- W04000325
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002526
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 020B · W01000474
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 020 · W02000414
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 LD3
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Old Smithy, Glasfynydd Trecastle, Brecon, LD3 8YE | 11 December 2007 | £375,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- LD3 8 residents
- 4,394
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in LD3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
705 residents
382 residents
923 residents
1,349 residents
1,160 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LD3 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
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
- 40%
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
- 1.6 miles
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BCT · Llywel
- 1.6 miles
Llywel
BCT · Llywel
- 1.6 miles
Trecastell Community Centre
BCT · Trecastell
- 1.6 miles
Trecastell Community Centre
BCT · Trecastell
- 3.0 miles
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