DG6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

265 of the district's 297 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 54.83712, -4.05560, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DG6

Companies House lists 120 companies with a registered office in DG6; none of them at an address shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for DG6

• Dumfries and Galloway
• Scotland
• Kirkcudbright
• Twynholm
• Tongland
• Dundrennan
• Borgue
• Millhall
• Kirkandrews
• Knockbrex
• St Mary's Isle
• Mutehill
• Dromore
• The Lake
• Townhead

Roads filed under DG6

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbey Park
• Arden Road
• Baird Way
• Barrhill Avenue
• Barrhill Road
• Barrhill Terrace
• Beaconsfield Place
• Belmont Gardens
• Black Morrow Close
• Boreland Road
• Bourtree Avenue
• Bourtree Crescent
• Bridge Street
• Brown Road
• Buchanan Street
• Buchanan Wynd
• Burn Brae
• Burnside Gardens
• Burnside Loaning
• Cannee Chase
• Captains Brae
• Castle Bank
• Castledykes Road
• Castledykes Walk
• Castle Gardens
• Castle Street
• Church Place
• Clemie Close
• Creamery Close
• Culdoach Road
• Deacon Road
• Dee Road
• Dee Walk
• Dovecroft
• Drumblane Strand
• Dunbar Avenue
• Fagra Road
• Fergus Road
• Fisher's Street
• Gladstone Place
• Gordon Place
• Great Cross Road
• High Street
• Holroyd Close
• Holroyd Road
• Hornel Road
• Kilndale Terrace
• Kirk Brae
• Ladies Walk
• Longacres Road
• Main Street
• Manse Road
• Maxwell Place
• Merse Avenue
• Merse Close
• Merse Drive
• Merse Park
• Merse Road
• Merse Strand
• Mews Lane

Check an address in DG6

Check an address in DG6

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DG6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DG6

What does a DG6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DG6 district of the DG (Dumfries) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Kirkcudbright. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 265 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest DG6

• DG714.9 km
• DG518.2 km
• DG829.7 km
• DG235.8 km
• CA1539.4 km
• DG140.1 km
• CA1440.1 km
• CA2844.8 km
• DG347.4 km
• CA1348.3 km
• CA2448.6 km
• CA2748.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids