DG8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

833 of the district's 940 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 54.87223, -4.51605, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DG8

Companies House lists 333 companies with a registered office in DG8; 27 of them at addresses 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 DG8

• Scotland
• Dumfries and Galloway
• Newton Stewart
• Wigtown
• Creetown
• Glenluce
• Whithorn
• Port William
• Garlieston
• Isle of Whithorn
• Kirkcowan
• Sorbie
• New Luce
• Carsluith
• Kirkinner
• Whauphill
• Spittal
• Glasserton
• Bladnoch
• Mochrum
• Auchenmalg
• Penninghame
• Glentrool Village
• Palnure

Roads filed under DG8

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.

• Aaron Court
• Agnew Crescent
• Alanfield Drive
• Albert Street
• Allanfield Drive
• Allanfield Place
• Arthur Street
• Ashgrove Drive
• Auchendoon Gardens
• Auchendoon Place
• Auchendoon Road
• Balkail Avenue
• Bankfield Road
• Bank Street
• Barholm Street
• Barrhill Avenue
• Beddie Crescent
• Blair Way
• Botany Street
• Bower Drive
• Bowling Green Road
• Boyach Crescent
• Boyach Road
• Boyach Terrace
• Breadalbane Place
• Bridge Street
• Brooke Gardens
• Bruce Place
• Bruce Street
• Burnside Court
• Burnside Lane
• Cairnsmore Avenue
• Cairnsmore Crescent
• Cairnsmore Road
• Callanders Close
• Carse Road
• Castlehill
• Castle Hill Court
• Chain Road
• Chain Terrace
• Church Lane
• Church Street
• Commercial Street
• Corsbie Grove
• Corsbie Road
• Corvisel Avenue
• Corvisel Court
• Corvisel Road
• Cowgate
• Creamery Crescent
• Cree Avenue
• Creebridge
• Creek Road
• Creemills Walk
• Crispin Street
• Crofthill Road
• Culderry Lane
• Culderry Row
• Cumloden Court
• Cumloden Road

Check an address in DG8

Check an address in DG8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DG8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DG8

What does a DG8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DG8 district of the DG (Dumfries) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dumfries and Galloway. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 833 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 DG8

• DG629.7 km
• DG932.4 km
• DG733.9 km
• KA2643.4 km
• DG545.4 km
• KA1953.6 km
• DG258.7 km
• KA660.5 km
• DG361.1 km
• DG163.7 km
• KA764.3 km
• DG466.4 km
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