Map of DD8 1YE postcode No longer in use

General information

Postcode	DD8 1YE
Post Town	Forfar, Kirriemuir
Nearest station	Arbroath (19 km)
Bus stops	Myrestone House (SW)
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	56.67535
	Longitude	-2.828357
	Easting	349340
	Northing	754039
	Grid reference	NO493540
	UTM reference	30V 510517 6281261
	what3words	markets.replaces.musically
	FixPhrase	cuddly lushly stinking uncork
	Plus code	9C8VM5GC+4M
	Altitude	122 metres (400 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:16
	Sunset (today)	15:44
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	18.4 KMs (11.5 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Forfar and District	S13002869
Council Area	Angus	S12000041
Constituency (2024)	Angus and Perthshire Glens	S14000065
MP	Dave Doogan	Scottish National Party
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	Angus and Dundee City
NUTS/ITL 2	Eastern Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	January 1987
Date usage ended	December 1994
Last updated	September 2025
User type	Large (addresses receive more than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality	Postcode terminated prior to Gridlink initiative - last known ONS postcode grid reference

Demographics

Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,214 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Accessible Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00139632
Census output area (2011)	1A3
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Letham and Glamis - 06	S01007245
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Letham and Glamis	S02001363
Travel to work area	Dundee	S22000056

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