This is the Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain as at December 2022 (published March 2023). The IPN was first produced after the 1831 Census; this new version has been greatly expanded in content and extent. Featuring over 100,000 entries, it lists the names of localities and geography areas throughout England, Scotland and Wales. The IPN is published annually and with an updated and informative user guide giving a full rundown and explanation of the contents (File Size - 7 MB).(Note: Updated version 1.1 (published May 2023) reflects the change in registration districts from Northamptonshire to North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire.)

A comprehensive dataset of place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain

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https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenNames

Licence:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

The Pronunciation lexicon of British place names, surnames and first names was produced by the University of Poitiers (France) through a funding from ELRA in the framework of the European Commission project LRsP&P (Language Resources Production & Packaging - LE4-8335). This lexicon is an SGML-encoded database of British proper names. All entries belong to one or several of the following categories: place-names (a quasi-exhaustive list of toponyms from England, Scotland and Wales), and surnames or first names (a selection of names based on an extensive survey of bibliographic sources in the field of British onomastics combined with lists compiled by the author of this lexicon). The database is composed of 160,000 entries, breaking down as follows:Place-names Number of entries Number of transcriptions England 31,635 44,969 Wales 5,085 9,941 Scotland 15,363 20,397 Total 1 52,083 75,307 Surnames 92,456 115,934 First names 15,461 20,803 Total 2 107,917 136,737 Total 1+2 160,000 212,044 All phonemic transcriptions in the database are based on the SAMPA phonetic alphabet

London was by far the largest urban agglomeration in the United Kingdom in 2023, with an estimated population of 9.65 million people, more than three times as large as Manchester, the UK’s second-biggest urban agglomeration. The agglomerations of Birmingham and Leeds / Bradford had the third and fourth-largest populations respectively, while the biggest city in Scotland, Glasgow, was the fifth largest. Largest cities in Europe Two cities in Europe had larger urban areas than London, with the Russian capital Moscow having a population of almost 12.7 million. The city of Paris, located just over 200 miles away from London, was the second-largest city in Europe, with a population of more than 11.2 million people. Paris was followed by London in terms of population-size, and then by the Spanish cities of Madrid and Barcelona, at 6.75 million and 5.68 million people respectively. Russia's second-biggest city; St. Petersburg had a population of 5.56 million, followed by Rome at 4.3 million, and Berlin at 3.5 million. London’s population growth Throughout the 1980s, the population of London fluctuated from a high of 6.81 million people in 1981 to a low of 6.73 million inhabitants in 1988. During the 1990s, the population of London increased once again, growing from 6.8 million at the start of the decade to 7.15 million by 1999. London's population has continued to grow since the turn of the century, reaching a peak of 8.96 million people in 2019, and is forecast to reach 9.8 million by 2043.

This user guide gives a full rundown and explanation of the contents of the 2024 Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain. The download includes PDF and ODT versions of the user guide. (File Size - 568 KB)

This statistic shows the ten largest cities in the United Kingdom in 2021. In 2021, around 8.78 million people lived in London, making it the largest city in the United Kingdom.

This user guide gives a full rundown and explanation of the contents of the new 2016 Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain. (File Size - 644 KB)

A comprehensive dataset of place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain.

Accurate locations Let your customer-facing staff find places quickly when talking to callers. OS Open Names provides the accurate locations of streets and postcodes in Great Britain.

Place name data Quickly look up places and roads with two names. OS Open Names contains place name data in English and their Welsh, Scots or Gaelic alternatives.

Simple licensing Save money and benefit from simple licensing terms. OS Open Names is free to view, download and use for commercial, education and personal purposes.

This user guide gives a full rundown and explanation of the contents of the new 2022 Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain. The download includes PDF and ODT versions of the user guide. (File Size - 567 KB)

Towns in England and Wales: towns list, cities list, classification and population data.

This user guide gives a full rundown and explanation of the contents of the new 2021 Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain. The download includes PDF and ODT versions of the user guide. (File Size - 570KB)

This web mapping application enables you to locate a place name from the Index of Place Names in Great Britain (IPN) as at December 2020, and display it on a base map together with a full list of its attributes. Featuring over 100,000 entries, the IPN lists the names of localities and administrative areas throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

This geolocated dataset derives from several surveys commissioned by the English Crown in 1565, enquiring into the state of the various ports, landing places, and coastal communities of England and Wales.

Please see the GitHub repository for details of the sources used and visualisation of their geographic scope.

Great Britain's (England, Scotland, Wales) cities (e.g. London, Birmingham, Edinburgh) named and represented as point features with an indicative bounding box. This data is often used for geocoding, service delivery and statistical analysis. OS Cities Data is available in a number of Ordnance Survey (OS) products: OS Open Names (bounding box and point geometry), OS Names API, MasterMap Topography Layer (point geometry), Vector Map Local (point geometry) and Vector Map District (point geometry). Small-scale cartographic representations are also available in OS cartographic products. All data is collected by Ordnance Survey as part of their role as the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

This computerised transcription of the census enumerators' books for the 1881 Census for England, Scotland and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is a by-product of a project to create a microfiche index of the population of Great Britain for genealogists. Covering the entire enumerated population of England, Scotland and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man in 1881, it is the largest collection of historical source material to be made available in computerised form. The data consists of the name, address, relationship to the head of household, marital status, age, occupation and birthplace of some 26 million individuals, together with information about disabilities.
In 1999 the Genealogical Society of Utah published a version of this computerised transcription as a CD-ROM product suitable for genealogical research (Genealogical Society of Utah (1999) 1881 British census and national index. [25 CDs]. Salt Lake City, Utah: GSU). This study is an enriched version of these data.
The sample is a 5 per cent random sample of the parishes of Great Britain. The sample was chosen in the simplest manner possible. A list of all the parishes in England, Wales, Scotland and the Islands in the British Seas was created; using a random number generator in Microsoft Excel, a random number between zero and one was allocated to each parish. All those less than or equal to 0.05 were selected for the sample. The records relating to the individuals in each of these parishes were then extracted from the data and combined in a database.

Tables B1 and B3 in Appendix B of the documentation list the 716 parishes in the sample.
Main Topics:
Main variables
PRO reference; piece number; folio number; page number; county; parish; address; surname; first name; relationship to head of household; marital status; gender; age; occupation; place of birth; disabilities.

This statistic shows the ten cities with the highest employment rate in the United Kingdom (UK) from July 2013 to June 2014. Warrington - the only city in the North to make this list - had the highest employment rate in this twelve month period, with 79.8 percent, followed by Cambridge and then Swindon. Seven of these cities were within 80 miles of London.

OS Open Names is an OpenData dataset that includes place names, road names and numbers and postcode for Great Britain and includes 2.5 million locations. The OS Open Names locator allows geocoding and searching against postcodes, street names, road numbers and places all in a single locator.

For more information about the OS Open Names dataset visit the following link: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.htmlData currency : January 2022

magazines in United Kingdom. name, image, categories, date Closed, date first issue, date founded, Frequency, city Headquarters, administrative division Headquarters, country Headquarters, continent Headquarters, Country, continent, ISSN, Website

London was by far the city with the highest international tourism spending in the United Kingdom in 2023. That year, inbound travel expenditure in the UK's capital amounted to 16.7 million British pounds. Meanwhile, Edinburgh and Manchester ranked second and third, respectively. These ranking positions were matched in the list of cities in the UK with the highest number of international visits.