Map of EH6 8QX postcode No longer in use

General information

Postcode	EH6 8QX
Post Town	Edinburgh
Nearest station	Curriehill (3 km)
Bus stops	Dalmahoy (SW)
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.908659
	Longitude	-3.367016
	Easting	314640
	Northing	669239
	Grid reference	NT146692
	UTM reference	30U 477056 6195974
	what3words	variances.graver.nest
	FixPhrase	crystal lung scorn unturned
	Plus code	9C7RWJ5M+F5
	Altitude	94 metres (308 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:44
	Sunset (today)	16:13
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	9.2 KMs (5.7 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Pentland Hills	S13002920
Council Area	City of Edinburgh	S12000036
Constituency (2024)	Edinburgh West	S14000082
MP	Christine Jardine	Liberal Democrat
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	City of Edinburgh
NUTS/ITL 2	East Central Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	December 1990
Date usage ended	July 1992
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)	6,328 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Accessible Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00144952
Census output area (2011)	1B2
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Balerno and Bonnington Village - 07	S01008423
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Balerno and Bonnington Village	S02001576
Travel to work area	Edinburgh	S22000059

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