EH26 postcode district: Penicuik and around

EH26 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 568 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Penicuik. It is split between 2 councils: Midlothian (560 postcodes) and Scottish Borders (8).

Postcodes in use: 568
Sectors: 4
Councils: 2 councils
Places: Penicuik

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in EH26, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 36
Some can get gigabit: 69
Every home and business can get gigabit: 441
Ofcom gives no figure: 22
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 568 postcodes in EH26 that ONS places, 36 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 69 have some that can, 441 can all get it and 22 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 55.8341, longitude -3.2237. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

36 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

EH26 0AZ EH26 0BF EH26 0BY EH26 0NH EH26 0NP EH26 0PJ EH26 0QB EH26 0QF EH26 0QG EH26 0QQ EH26 0SY EH26 8LP

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH26 8LR, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EH26?

Ofcom reports on 546 of the 568 postcodes in EH26. At 441 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 10 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit441 of 546

Postcodes where every home can get superfast500 of 546

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband10 of 546

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it