KY8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

989 of the district's 1,125 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 56.19728, -3.01252, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KY8

Companies House lists 869 companies with a registered office in KY8; 104 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 KY8

• Fife
• Scotland
• Leven
• Methil
• Buckhaven
• Kennoway
• Lower Largo
• Windygates
• Upper Largo
• Kirkton of Largo
• Bonnybank
• New Gilston
• Baintown
• Woodside
• Drumeldrie

Roads filed under KY8

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.

• Abbie Grove
• Adamson Terrace
• Addison Crescent
• Aithernie Drive
• Aithernie Road
• Aitken Street
• Ajax Way
• Alder Terrace
• Alison Street
• Anderson Lane
• Anderson Street
• Arbaile
• Ardan
• Arnbeg
• Ashgrove
• Baird Crescent
• Balcurvie Hills
• Balcurvie Road
• Balfour Street
• Balmaise
• Balmoral Place
• Balmoral Terrace
• Banbeath Court
• Banbeath Place
• Banbeath Road
• Bankhead Place
• Bank Street
• Barncraig Street
• Barrie Street
• Bayview Crescent
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Park
• Bethune Way
• Beurard
• Birch Grove
• Bishop's Court
• Bonthron Lane
• Bourtree Bank
• Bourtree Brae
• Bowhouse Place
• Bowling Green Street
• Bow Street
• Brady Crescent
• Braeside
• Branch Street
• Brewery Wynd
• Bridgend Gardens
• Bridge Street
• Broom Crescent
• Broomfield
• Broom Road
• Brown Crescent
• Brown Street
• Buchan Gardens
• Burnbank
• Burnhill Lane
• Burnmill Road
• Burns Avenue
• Burnside of Letham
• Byron Street

Check an address in KY8

Check an address in KY8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KY8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KY8

What does a KY8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KY8 district of the KY (Kirkcaldy) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Leven. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 989 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 KY8

• KY79.0 km
• KY110.8 km
• KY911.1 km
• KY1511.6 km
• KY611.6 km
• KY213.4 km
• KY518.3 km
• KY1419.0 km
• KY1019.6 km
• KY1619.9 km
• KY320.1 km
• EH3121.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids