Map of DG8 6RE postcode

General information

Postcode	DG8 6RE
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Barrhill (20 km)
Bus stops	Village (N)
Roads in this postcode	South Drive
Number of UPRNs	13 View
Businesses	GALLOWAY SIGNS LTD

Geography

	Latitude	54.99153
	Longitude	-4.52934
	Easting	238279
	Northing	569254
	Grid reference	NX382692
	UTM reference	30U 402153 6094918
	what3words	chum.putter.tomato
	FixPhrase	crunchy lumber suffix unframed
	Plus code	9C6QXFRC+J7
	Altitude	36 metres (119 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:41
	Sunset (today)	16:25
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	7.6 KMs (4.7 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)	26
Households (2011)	10
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	2,844 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146621
Census output area (2011)	1A4
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Machars North - 04	S01007505
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Machars North	S02001410
Travel to work area	Newton Stewart	S22000072

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