| Postcode | SP8 5HU |
|---|---|
| Post Town | Gillingham |
| Nearest station | Templecombe (5 km) |
| Bus stops |
Stapleton Arms (SW)
|
| Known addresses |
No addresses found
|
| Businesses |
No businesses found
|
| Latitude | 51.020244 | |
|---|---|---|
| Longitude | -2.349241 | |
| Easting | 375600 | |
| Northing | 124599 | |
| Grid reference | ST756245 | |
| UTM reference | 30U 545643 5652277 | |
| what3words | shadow.earpiece.bookcases | |
| FixPhrase | cried lustiness shale train | |
| Plus code | 9C3V2MC2+38 | |
| Altitude | 73 metres (241 feet) | |
| Sunrise (today) | 7:02 | |
| Sunset (today) | 16:45 | |
| Distance away | ||
| Distance to sea | 39.5 KMs (24.5 miles) |
| Parish | Buckhorn Weston | E04003396 |
|---|---|---|
| Ward | Gillingham | E05012702 |
| Unitary Authority | Dorset | E06000059 |
| County | Dorset | E10000009 |
| Constituency (2024) | North Dorset | E14001388 |
| MP | Simon Hoare | Conservative |
| Police force | Dorset | |
| NUTS/ITL 3 | Dorset | |
| NUTS/ITL 2 | North Somerset, Somerset and Dorset | |
| NUTS/ITL 1 | South West | |
| Country | England | E92000001 |
| Date introduced | January 1980 |
|---|---|
| Date usage ended | December 1990 |
| Last updated | September 2025 |
| User type | Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day) |
| Quality | Postcode terminated prior to Gridlink initiative - last known ONS postcode grid reference |
| Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019) |
Most deprivedLeast deprived
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Average household income (2020) |
Lowest (£22,200)
Highest (£108,100)
|
|
| Rural/urban (2021) | Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city | |
| Rural/urban (2011) | Rural hamlet and isolated dwellings | |
| Built up area (2024) | Buckhorn Weston | E63013296 |
| Census output area (2021) | E00103584 | |
| Census output area (2011) | 1B1 | |
| Lower layer super output area (2021) | Dorset 002A | E01020440 |
| Lower layer super output area (2011) | North Dorset 002A | E01020440 |
| Middle layer super output area (2021) | Gillingham Outer, Bourton & Motcombe | E02004256 |
| Middle layer super output area (2011) | Gillingham Outer, Bourton & Motcombe | E02004256 |
| Travel to work area | Blandford Forum and Gillingham | E30000172 |
| Average property price in Salisbury | £324,684 |
|---|---|
| Annual change | -1.2% |