A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
This section of the database contains gazetteers which have been developed to standardise the names of administrative units and link data for these units to the GIS. NB gazetteers closely linked with particular data tables are documented in the same section as the tables they relate to; this applies, for example, to gazetteers of trade union branches. In the longer term, we are developing a new gazetteer system which will contain more systematic information on hierarchies of units and provide place-name authority lists. However, the intention is that the system will always contain tables with the same names and basic structure that are documented here, but these will increasingly be 'views' of the new gazetteer system.
| Table | Type | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| adm_cnty_gaz | Gazetteer | Standardised Names for Administrative Counties |
| codepoint_jul2023_gb | Gazetteer | Postcodes in Local Authority units (codepoint open), July 2023 |
| codepoint_may2016_gb | Gazetteer | Postcodes in Local Authority units (codepoint open), May 2016 |
| dbpedia_places | Gazetteer | Subset of English-language DBpedia dump for "places" |
| gaz_of_world | Gazetteer | [No details available] |
| gaz_xwalk_maphistory | Gazetteer | Crosswalk between Maphistory and PastPlace place identifiers |
| geonames | Gazetteer | Complete copy of Geonames gazetteer as of 20th July 2015. |
| geonames_alternate | Gazetteer | Complete copy of Geonames alternative names as of 18th January 2019. |
| gref_convert | Gazetteer | Conversion table for National Grid reference letter codes. |
| mod_country_names | Gazetteer | Listing of all modern soveriegn states current in October 2014 |
| ns_postcode_lookup | Codebook | Selected data from National Statistics Postcode Lookup (May 2022) |
| os25inch_raw | Gazetteer | Raw transcription text and locations in Edinburgh from OS25inch mapping. |
| os25inch_revised | Gazetteer | Revised transcription text and locations in Edinburgh from OS25inch mapping. |
| os50k_gaz | Gazetteer | 1:50,000 OS Gazetteer for 250,000 places in Great Britain, incl. grid refs |
| osopennames | Gazetteer | Complete copy of OS Open Names gazetteer as of 30th January 2019. |
| pelagios_gaz | Gazetteer | Names of places from Pelagios gazetteer used in Recogito |
| townlands_1851 | Gazetteer | Townlands Index from Census of Ireland 1851 |
| townlands_1851_baron | Gazetteer | Listing of Baronies from the Townlands Index for Census of Ireland 1851 |
| townlands_1851_par | Gazetteer | Listing of Parishes from the Townlands Index for Census of Ireland 1851 |
| wikidata_names | Gazetteer | All names/titles associated with Wikidata entities having a geographical location as an attribute |
| wikidata_places | Gazetteer | All Wikidata entities having a geographical location as an attribute |
| wikidata_properties | Codebook | Wikidata entities appearing as 'instance of' for Wikidata places |