Map of DG8 8EX postcode No longer in use

General information

Postcode	DG8 8EX
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Stranraer (42 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.768219
	Longitude	-4.421183
	Easting	244338
	Northing	544166
	Grid reference	NX443441
	UTM reference	30U 408568 6069925
	what3words	joined.mothering.customers
	FixPhrase	cruncher luminance starfish trowel
	Plus code	9C6QQH9H+7G
	Altitude	34 metres (112 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:19
	Sunset (today)	16:45
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	3.3 KMs (2 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	May 1993
Date usage ended	December 1996
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)	3,279 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00147301
Census output area (2011)	1A1
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Machars South - 04	S01007509
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Machars South	S02001411
Travel to work area	Newton Stewart	S22000072

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