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                  | Postcode | 
                  
                    AB42 7YS
                    
                      
                      
                    
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                    | Post Town
                     | 
                    Peterhead | 
                  
                  
                    | Nearest station  | 
                    
                      Dyce (34 km)
                     | 
                  
                  
                  
                    | Bus stops | 
                    
                       No nearby bus stops 
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                  | Businesses | 
                  
                     
                        No businesses found
                     
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            Geography
            
              
              
              
                
                  | 
                    
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                  Latitude | 
                  57.466964 | 
                
                
                  | 
                    
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                  Longitude | 
                  -1.893482 | 
                
                  
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                    Easting | 
                    406489 | 
                  
                  
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                    Northing | 
                    841859 | 
                  
                  
                     | 
                    Grid reference | 
                    NK064418 | 
                  
                
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                  UTM reference | 
                  30V 566372 6369908 | 
                
                
                   | 
                  what3words | 
                  crescendo.darts.press | 
                
                
                   | 
                  FixPhrase
                    
                   | 
                  culture lying staining tanning | 
                
                  
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                    Plus code | 
                    9C9WF484+QJ | 
                  
                
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                  Altitude | 
                  
                    72 metres (237 feet)
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                  Sunrise (today) | 
                  7:27 | 
                
                
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                  Sunset (today) | 
                  16:17 | 
                
                
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                  Distance away | 
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                    Distance to sea | 
                    6.2 KMs (3.9 miles) | 
                  
              
              
            
          
        
        
            
              
              
                Administrative areas 
              
                
                  
                        
                          | Ward | 
                            
                              Central Buchan
                             | 
                            S13002851 | 
                        
                      
                        | Council Area | 
                        
                          Aberdeenshire
                         | 
                        S12000034 | 
                      
                      
                        | Constituency (2024) | 
                        Aberdeenshire North and Moray East | 
                        S14000062 | 
                      
                        | MP | Seamus Logan | Scottish National Party | 
                      | Police force | Scotland | 
                      | Water company | Scottish Water | 
                      
                        | NUTS/ITL 3 | 
                        Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire | 
                      
                      
                        | NUTS/ITL 2 | 
                        North Eastern Scotland | 
                      
                      
                        | NUTS/ITL 1 | 
                        Scotland | 
                      
                    
                      | Country | 
                      Scotland | 
                    S92000003 | 
                    
                  
                  
                
              
          
    
      
        Data
        
          
              
                | Date introduced | 
                
                  August 1990
                 | 
              
              
                | Date usage ended | 
                
                  June 1996
                 | 
              
            
              | Last updated | 
              September 2025 | 
            
              
                | User type | 
                Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day) | 
              
                    
              
                | Quality | 
                Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean | 
              
          
          
        
      
          
          
        
          
            Demographics
            
              
                
                  | Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019) | 
                  
                    
                     Most deprivedLeast deprived 
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                  | Rural/urban (2021) | Accessible Rural | 
                  | Rural/urban (2011) | Accessible rural area | 
                  | Census output area (2021) | S00137748 |  | 
                  | Census output area (2011) | 1A1 |  | 
                  | Lower layer super output area (2011) | Longside and Rattray - 02 | S01007096 | 
                  | Middle layer super output area (2011) | Longside and Rattray | S02001338 | 
                  | Travel to work area | Peterhead | S22000075 | 
              
              
            
         
       
        
      
        
        
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