ML8 postcode district: Carluke and around, South Lanarkshire

ML8 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 526 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Carluke, Law and Lanark. Its council is South Lanarkshire.

Postcodes in use: 526
Sectors: 2
Council: South Lanarkshire
Places: 3 places

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

Every postcode in ML8, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 15
In use before 2020: 511
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 526 postcodes in ML8 that ONS places, 15 are new since 2020 and 511 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 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 55.7318, longitude -3.8435. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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

The 5 newest postcodes

ML8 4FSDecember 2025 ML8 4FRJune 2025 ML8 5FWApril 2024 ML8 5GJFebruary 2024 ML8 5FTAugust 2023

Where the new postcodes lie together

5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. ML8 5FR, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in ML8?

Ofcom reports on 524 of the 526 postcodes in ML8. At 427 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit427 of 524

Postcodes where every home can get superfast489 of 524

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 524

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