Map of DG8 0LP postcode

General information

Postcode	DG8 0LP
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Stranraer (13 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	Main Street
Number of UPRNs	4 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.903788
	Longitude	-4.817604
	Easting	219448
	Northing	560199
	Grid reference	NX194601
	UTM reference	30U 383459 6085597
	what3words	quaking.risen.spurring
	FixPhrase	crunchy lugged scale utilize
	Plus code	9C6QW53J+GX
	Altitude	124 metres (407 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:19
	Sunset (today)	16:48
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	4.4 KMs (2.7 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Mid Galloway and Wigtown West	S13002881
Council Area	Dumfries and Galloway	S12000006
Constituency (2024)	Dumfries and Galloway	S14000073
MP	John Cooper	Conservative
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	Dumfries and Galloway
NUTS/ITL 2	Southern Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	January 1980
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

Population (2011)	2
Households (2011)	1
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	2,537 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146964
Census output area (2011)	1A1
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Machars North - 02	S01007503
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Machars North	S02001410
Travel to work area	Stranraer	S22000079

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