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.)

This is the Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain as at December 2023 (published July 2024). 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 - 8 MB).

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

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Source:

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/

This is the Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain as at December 2018 (published September 2019). The IPN was first produced after the 1831 Census; this new version has been greatly expanded in content and extent. Featuring over 99,000 entries, it lists the names of localities and geography areas throughout England, Scotland and Wales. New geographies added are county electoral divisions. The IPN is published annually and with an updated and informative user guide giving a full rundown and explanation of the contents (File Size - 6 MB).

The Place Names gazetteer contains a geographical index of 336 towns and villages across Northern Ireland. The data was derived from OSNI's 1:250,000 Ireland North mapping. The locations represent the label position on the mapping rather than precise real world position. A gazetteer is a geographical index. The Place Names gazetteer contains a list of 336 towns and villages across Northern Ireland. Published here for Open Data. By download or use of this dataset you agree to abide by the LPS Open Government Data Licence.Please Note for Open Data NI Users: Esri Rest API is not Broken, it will not open on its own in a Web Browser but can be copied and used in Desktop and Webmaps

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 file contains the digital points for the Index of Place Names in Great Britain as at July 2016. Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

INDEX VILLARIS: or, An Alphabetical Table of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, and private seats in England and Wales was first published by John Adams in 1680. This dataset consists of a transcription of all 24,000 place-names listed in Index Villaris, together with the the symbols representing Adams's categorisation of each place and modern versions of the place-names and the counties and administrative hundred in which they lie or lay. It also comprises a transcription of the latitude and longitude recorded by Adams, and another set of coordinates generated by the application of a thin plate spline transformation calculated by matching some 2,000 place-names to the accurately-georeferenced CAMPOP Towns dataset.

The dataset is being checked, corrected, and refined to include linkage to other geospatial references such as OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, and will in due course be made available in the Linked Places Format.

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 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)

This is the Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain as at December 2020 (published November 2021). 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).

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.

These geolocated datasets derive from annotations of Christopher Saxton's County Maps of England & Wales, annotations of published volumes of John Leland's Itineraries in Wales, and annotations of Wenceslaus Hollar's vignettes intended for publication in Britannia.

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

This file contains names and codes for Major Towns and Cities (TCITY) in England and Wales as at December 2015. (File size - 16KB).

The TCITY statistical geography provides a precise definition of the major towns and cities in England and Wales. The geography has been developed specifically for the production and analysis of statistics, and is based on the Built-Up Areas geography that was created for the release of 2011 Census data.

Field Names - TCITYCD, TCITYNM, FID

Field Types - Text, Text, Number

Field Lengths - 9, 20

FID = The FID, or Feature ID is created by the publication process when the names and codes / lookup products are published to the Open Geography portal. REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/Major_Towns_and_Cities_Dec_2015_Names_and_Codes_in_England_and_Wales_2022/FeatureServer

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.

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

The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 prompted the government in London to undertake a survey the following year to establish the number of guest beds and quantity of stabling available across England and Wales for billeting soldiers. This dataset represents an attempt to identify and geolocate all of the place-names noted in that survey.

Transcription was undertaken for CAMPOP by Jacob Field, with funding provided by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Dan Bogart. Stephen Gadd is responsible for place-name identification and geolocation, matching place-names as far as possible to the Index Villaris, 1680 dataset, GB1900 labels, and OpenStreetMap nodes.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS PRE-RELEASE DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY DATA