Map of DG8 8LW postcode No longer in use

General information

Postcode	DG8 8LW
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Stranraer (48 km)
Bus stops	Main Street (NW) Boyack Road (NW)
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.701265
	Longitude	-4.366748
	Easting	247588
	Northing	536598
	Grid reference	NX475365
	UTM reference	30U 411925 6062406
	what3words	store.latches.wager
	FixPhrase	cruncher luminous sasquatch twerp
	Plus code	9C6QPJ2M+G8
	Altitude	9 metres (28 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:21
	Sunset (today)	16:43
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.7 KMs (0.4 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
Date usage ended	September 2000
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)	3,018 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00147325
Census output area (2011)	1B3
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Machars South - 07	S01007512
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Machars South	S02001411
Travel to work area	Newton Stewart	S22000072

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