Addresses in Scotland

Pick a number from 1 to 15, press Generate, and you get that many random Scottish addresses, one per card with a copy button. Each is a single line: a house number, a street, one of six Scottish cities, and the postcode district that belongs to that city, such as 74 Main Street, Edinburgh, EH1. The addresses are drawn from a list of 1,000 combinations built from real street names, real cities and real postcode districts; the specific house on that street is not real, so nothing here identifies an actual household.

What's in the list

The list is deliberately narrow so the pieces fit together. The cities are Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling and Inverness, each paired with its city-center postcode district: EH1, G1, AB10, DD1, FK8 and IV1. The streets are six that exist in nearly every Scottish town: Main Street, High Street, Church Street, Park Road, Victoria Road and Green Lane. House numbers run from 1 to 100. That gives a few thousand possible lines, of which 1,000 are in the list, spread roughly evenly across the six cities.

Two limits to know about. The postcode is the outward half only (the district, like EH1), not a full postcode like EH1 3AB, so anything that validates the full seven-character format will reject it. And there are no towns outside the six cities, so you won't get a Highland village or a Fife address from this tool.

Where a Scotland address example is useful

• Checking UK address forms handle Scotland. Plenty of forms assume England: county fields, "London" defaults, postcode regexes that choke on single-letter areas like G1. A batch of Glasgow and Inverness lines is a quick way to test them.
• Sample data for a UK-wide dataset. Mix these with English and Welsh addresses so your test records aren't all south of the border.
• Mockups and screenshots. A delivery card that says Aberdeen, AB10 reads as real to a Scottish user.
• Fiction. A character at 43 Park Road, Stirling is a start; add a flat number and a full postcode by hand if the story needs them.
• Placeholder for sign-ups. When a site wants an address to show a price, a generated line fills the box without giving your own away.

For other countries in the same style, see the Random Address in France, Random Netherlands Address and Random Address in Sweden.

How Scottish addresses and postcodes work

Scotland uses the standard UK format. Royal Mail's preferred layout is one element per line, with the post town in capitals and the postcode last:

Flat 2/1
32 Church Street
GLASGOW
G1 1AA

Scotland has a couple of conventions England doesn't. Tenement flats are often written as 2/1 or 2F1, meaning first floor, flat 1, and the flat comes before the street line. No county is needed; the post town and postcode are enough, and "Scotland" is only added on international mail below the postcode line.

Scottish postcode areas

A UK postcode has an outward code (area letters plus district number) and an inward code (a digit and two letters). The generator gives the outward code. Scotland's areas are: AB Aberdeen, DD Dundee, DG Dumfries and Galloway, EH Edinburgh, FK Falkirk and Stirling, G Glasgow, HS Outer Hebrides, IV Inverness, KA Kilmarnock, KW Kirkwall and Caithness, KY Kirkcaldy, ML Motherwell, PA Paisley and Argyll, PH Perth and the Highlands, TD the Borders, and ZE Shetland. Within an area, low district numbers are usually the city center, which is why the tool uses EH1, G1, DD1 and IV1; Aberdeen's center is AB10 because the AB area was renumbered in the 1990s, and Stirling sits in the Falkirk area as FK7–FK9.

Sample addresses

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