This dataset contains a sample of 10,000 (3.5%) out of a total of 285,846 text sequences extracted from the 1891–1896 Map of London by the Ordnance Survey (OS).

The methodology used for the automated recognition, linking, and sequencing of the text is detailed in the article Recognizing and Sequencing Multi-word Texts in Maps Using an Attentive Pointer by M. Zou et al., 2025.

Description of the content

The map is drawn at a scale of five-feet to the mile (c.a. 1:1,056). The text on the map is an invaluable source of information about the Greater London in the late Victorian period. It includes the names of streets, squares, parks, watercourses and even some estates ('Poplars', 'The Grange', 'Arbutus Lodge'). In addition, the map contains many details of the function of buildings and economic activity, such as factories ('Sweet Factory', 'Crown Linoleum Works', 'Imperial Flour Mills', 'Lion Brewery'), warehouses or commercial infrastructure ('Warehouse', 'Jamaica Wharf', 'Rag Store'), offices ('Offices'), etc. The map also mentions public buildings such as schools ('School Boys, Girls & Infants', 'Sunday School'), hospitals or clinics ('St. Saviour's Union Infirmary', 'Beulah Spa Hydropathic Establishment', 'South Western Fever Hospital'), railway stations ('Clapham Station'), post offices, banks, police stations, etc. Other social venues are also mentioned, such as public houses, i.e. pubs ('P.H.'), clubs, casinos, and recreational areas (e.g. 'Cricket Ground'). Special attention is given to churches, with a regular count of the number of seats (e.g. 'Baptist Chapel Seats for 600').

In addition, the map provides details that can be of great interest in the study of everyday life in London at the end of the 19th century. For example, there are numerous mentions of 'Stables', 'Drinking Fountain'[s] (or simply 'Fn.') or 'Urinal'[s]. Fire protection infrastructure is highlighted, e.g. fire plugs ('F.P.') and fire alarms ('F.A.'). The map also includes information on elevation (e.g. '11·6') and flood levels (e.g. 'High Water Mark of Ordinary Tides').

A list of abbreviations used in the Ordnance Survey maps, created by Richard Oliver [1], is made available by the National Library of Scotland (link).

Organization of the data

The data in 10k_text_london_OS_1890s.geojson is organized as a regular geojson file.

Example structure

{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"features": [
{
"type": "Feature",
"geometry": {
"type": "MultiPolygon",
"coordinates": [[[ [x1, y1], [x2, y2], ...]]]
},
"properties": {
"label": "Oxford Circus",
}
},

... # Further text sequences


]
}

Image documents

The original map document consists of 729 separate sheets, digitized, georeferenced, and served as geographic tiles by the National Library of Scotland [2].

Descriptive statistics

Total Number of text sequences: 285,846
Sample size: 10,000
Total Area covered: 450 square km

Use and Citation

For any mention of this dataset, please cite :

@misc{text_london_OS_1890s,
author = {Zou, Mengjie and Petitpierre, R{\'{e}}mi and di Lenardo, Isabella},
title = {{London 1890s Ordnance Survey Text Layer}},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Zenodo},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14982946}}

@article{recognizing_sequencing_2025,
author = {Zou, Mengjie and Dai, Tianhao and Petitpierre, R{\'{e}}mi and Vaienti, Beatrice and di Lenardo, Isabella},
title = {{Recognizing and Sequencing Multi-word Texts in Maps Using an Attentive Pointer}},
year = {2025}}

Corresponding author

Rémi PETITPIERRE - remi.petitpierre@epfl.ch - ORCID - Github - Scholar - ResearchGate

License

This project is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Liability

We do not assume any liability for the use of this dataset.

References

1. Oliver R. (2013). Ordnance Survey maps: A concise guide for historians. The Charles Close Society. London, UK. 3rd Ed. 320 pages
2. Ordnance Survey, London, five feet to the mile, 1893-1896 (1896), https://maps.nls.uk/os/townplans-england/london-1056-1890s.html, digitized by the National Library of Scotland (NLS)

Code-Point® with polygons shows the notional shape of every postcode unit in Great Britain, and includes major buildings with multiple postcodes.

For compelling visuals, Code-Point with polygons lets you apply shading to individual postcodes on a map. This means you can analyse location data at the most granular level and bring your results vividly to life.

We give you every single postcode in Great Britain and Northern Ireland – including those for different floors of high-rise buildings.

For accuracy, we give every postcode a positional quality rating and map out the boundaries of only the postcodes we can locate most precisely.

Code-Point® with polygons contains postcode boundaries for Great Britain. These show the extent of each postcode unit, enabling you to analyse information by postcode. Ideal for activities such as sales targeting or market profiling, as well as any statistical work. Includes notional polygons; vertical streets data; postcode units; eastings and northings; NHS® health authority codes; administrative codes; PO box indicator; and types of delivery points.

OS Code-Point® Open is an OpenData postcode-level dataset providing a point location for all geographic postal codes in Great Britain. The gazetteer service allows geocoding and postcode searching against this dataset. It is ideal for a variety of uses including planning A to B journeys, performing analysis, managing assets (such as premises) or utilising postcode lookups. Attributes: Postcode units, eastings, northings, positional quality indicator, NHS® regional health authority code, NHS health authority code, country code, administrative county code, administrative district code and administrative ward code.Data Currency: February 2022

This data shows the old ONS codes and new GSS codes for Great Britain. This should make it easier to map data which has one of these two standard codes. The old ONS codes are no longer shipped with OS Open boundary line data so having a mapping between the old-new might be very useful. The data is available as a shapefile showing GB districts from the 2012 Boundary line data. This dataset was made from OS Opendata Boundary line http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/boundary-line/index.html and a table on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONS_coding_system. Users should acknowledge the sources when using this data. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2012-04-03 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.

The Crop Map of England (CROME) is a polygon vector dataset mainly containing the crop types of England. The dataset contains approximately 32 million hexagonal cells classifying England into over 20 main crop types, grassland, and non-agricultural land covers, such as Woodland, Water Bodies, Fallow Land and other non-agricultural land covers. The classification was created automatically using supervised classification (Random Forest Classification) from the combination of Sentinel-1 Radar and Sentinel-2 Optical Satellite images during the period late January 2019 – September 2019. The dataset was created to aid the classification of crop types from optical imagery, which can be affected by cloud cover. The results were checked against survey data collected by field inspectors and visually validated. The data has been split into the Ordnance Survey Ceremonial Counties and each county is given a three letter code. Please refer to the CROME specification document to see which county each CODE label represents.

As part of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Land Cover 2007 Pilot Project, a reconnaissance survey was undertaken on 12th May 2006 in a 60 x 60 km area (bounded by Ordnance Survey National Grid Reference X = 400000 to 460000, Y = 095000 to 155000) which included the Network for Calibration and Validation in Earth Observation (NCAVEO) test site. A recording tablet device was used for acquiring ground data for sample points in the defined area. The dataset consists of an ESRI shape file of point data, containing all the points recorded on a tablet device. Each point has a British National Grid X and Y co-ordinate and a class code. The dataset has not been checked or edited yet and a few of the records will be erroneous. The most obvious errors will be two or more points with identical locations but different codes, the final code will be the correct one. Some of the points for Salisbury Plain lie just outside the test area boundaries. A key to abbreviations used for field recording is also included and a list of thematic land cover classes and their codes to aid field reconnaissance, as used for Land Cover Map 2000.

This data represents a seamless bedrock geological dataset encompassing Republic of Ireland and parts of Northern Ireland. The seamless geological dataset was created from the GSI Bedrock 1:100,000 scale digital geological map series.

The dataset comprises 6 key shape files.

1) Bed100k.shp - A polygon shapefile that contains bedrock geological information on Stratigraphy, Igneous, Lithology and Diagentic codes, their unitnames and brief descriptions.

Fields: AREA: Area of the polygon in square metres. Field type: Double. PERIMETER: Perimeter of polygons in metres: Field type: Double. NEWCODE: unique identifier for every formation or member. Field type: String. SHEETNO: 100k sheets from which they originated before creating the seamless version. Field type: Double. STRATCODE: Stratigraphic code for unit, as labeled on printed maps and their legends. Field type: String. LITHCODE: Lithological code. Field type: String. DESCRIPT: Brief description of the dominant rock types. Field type: String. C,M,Y,K: cyan, magenta, yellow and black percentage. Field types: Double. UNITNAME: Name of the geological formation or member. Field Type: String.

2) Index100k.shp - An overlay polygon index of 1:100,000 scale printed map sheets.

Fields: SHEETNO: 1:100,000 printed sheet number. Field type: Double.

3) Struc100k.shp (Structural Linework) - A linework shapefile that contains structural geological linework codes and descriptions

Fields: LENGTH: Length of the feature in metres: Field type: Float. CODE: Unique identifier for structure type. Field type: String. SHEET: The 1:100,000 printed map sheet number on which the structure was originally located. Field type: Double. FOLDNAME: Name field for regionally important folds. Field type: String. FAULTNAME: Name field for regionally important faults. Field type: String. ADDITION: Additional information field for structure. Field type: String. DESCRIPT: Description of structure type. Field type: String. SLIDE: Name field for regionally important slides. Field type: String.

4) Strat100k.shp (Stratigraphic Linework) - A linework shapefile that contains stratigraphic geological line codes and descriptions.

Fields: LENGTH: Length of the feature in metres: Field type: Float. CODE: Unique identifier for stratigraphic line type. Field type: String. SHEET: The 1:100,000 printed map sheet number on which the stratigraphic line was originally located. Field type: Double. DESCRIPT: Description of stratigraphic line type. Field type: String. ADDITION: Additional information field for stratigraphic line. Field type: String. DYKELABEL: Igneous dyke code identifier. Field type: String. STRATCODE: Stratigraphic code for narrow formations or members which are represented by a line rather than a polygon in Bed100k. Field type: String. LITHCODE: Lithological code for narrow formations or members which are represented by a line rather than a polygon in Bed100k. Field type: String.

5) Sect100k.shp (Crosss section) - A linework shapefile indicating the locations of map sheet cross sections as per paper printed maps.

Fields: LENGTH: Length of the feature in metres. Field type: Double. XSECTNAME: The name of the cross section, as determined by the letters indicating the starting point, intermediate turning points and end point on the printed map sheets and as on the marginalia diagrams. Field type: String. SHEETNO: The 1:100,000 map sheet on whose marginalia the cross-section diagram is published. Field type: Double.

6) Mins100k.shp - A point shapefile contains mineral and quarry descriptions from Bedrock 1:100,000 map series. This is a subset of the MINLOCS database held by Minerals Section in the GSI.

Fields: CODE: GSI Minerals Section code for the type of deposit. Field type: String. MINTEXT: Short code indicating dominant mineral type(s). Field type: String. SHEET: 1:100,000 printed map sheet on which the deposit occurs. Field type: Long. LOCNUM: MINLOCS database unique identifier for deposit. Field type: Double. DESCRIPTION: Descriptive comment on the type of mine or quarry. Field type: String. MINLEGEND: Descriptive text, based on the MINTEXT field, lisitng the dominant mineral type(s). Field type: String.

The original printed map series and seamless dataset is based on the © Ordnance Survey of Ireland topological maps at 1/2 inch to one mile which were converted photographically to the metric 1:100,000 scale by the Geological Survey of Ireland Cartographic Unit. The topological base maps are not provided in the data set.

‘Listing’ is the all-encompassing term for the legal protection given to a building, monument, structure or site through the planning system. It is recognition of historical, architectural or archaeological significance, intended to ensure that the character of the asset in question is preserved for future generations. The main types of Listing are:

Listed Buildings Scheduled Monuments Registered Parks and Gardens Registered Battlefields Protected Wreck Sites World Heritage Sites

Data is updated daily. Further details are available on our website here - https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/

Historic England Open Data Hub - https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/open-data-hub/

Field descriptions Listed BuildingsPolygons are available for listed buildings listed or substantively amended since 4th April 2011.

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Name of building


 Grade
 Grade
 Grade of building; in descending order of importance: I, II*,II


 ListDate
 Listing date
 Date on which the building was added to the Statutory List of Buildings


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the listing was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that listed building was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares Polygon layer only; only populated where building footprint has been mapped 


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Building Preservation Notices

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Name of building


 BPNStart
 Building Preservation Notice start date
 Start date of the notice


 BPNExpire
 Building Preservation Notice expiry date
 Expiry date of the notice


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that building preservation notice was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares Polygon layer only 


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Certificates of Immunity

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Name of building


 COIStart
 Certificate of Immunity start date
 Start date of the certificate


 COIExpire
 Certificate of Immunity expiry date
 Expiry date of the certificate


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that certificate of immunity was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares Polygon layer only 


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Scheduled Monuments

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Statutory registered title of monument


 SchedDate
 Schedule date
 Date on which the monument was included in the Schedule of Monuments


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the scheduling was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that scheduled monument was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area

 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Registered Parks and Gardens

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Registered title of park and garden


 Grade
 Grade
 Grade of park and garden; in descending order of importance: I, II*, II


 RegDate
 Registration date
 Date on which the park and garden was included in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the registration was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that park and garden was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Registered Battlefields

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Registered title of battlefield


 RegDate
 Registration date
 Date on which the battlefield was included in the Register of Historic Battlefields


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the registration was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that battlefield was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Protected Wreck Sites

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Name of wreck site


 DesigDate
 Designation date
 Date on which the wreck site was designated as a restricted area


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the designation was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that protected wreck was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Latitude
 Latitude
 Latitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)


 Longitude
 Longitude
 Longitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)

World Heritage Sites

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Title of world heritage property


 InscrDate
 Inscription date
 Date on which the property was inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the inscription was last amended


 Notes
 Notes
 Denotes if polygon is Property Boundary (noted as Core Area) or Buffer Zone


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that World Heritage Site was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting

This is the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) for the United Kingdom as at February 2023 in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) and ASCII text (TXT) formats. This file contains the multi CSVs so that postcode areas can be opened in MS Excel. To download the zip file click the Download button. The ONSPD relates both current and terminated postcodes in the United Kingdom to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other area geographies. It also links postcodes to pre-2002 health areas, 1991 Census enumeration districts for England and Wales, 2001 Census Output Areas (OA) and Super Output Areas (SOA) for England and Wales, 2001 Census OAs and SOAs for Northern Ireland and 2001 Census OAs and Data Zones (DZ) for Scotland. It now contains 2021 Census OAs and SOAs for England and Wales. It helps support the production of area based statistics from postcoded data. The ONSPD is produced by ONS Geography, who provide geographic support to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and geographic services used by other organisations. The ONSPD is issued quarterly. (File size - 234 MB)NOTE: The 2022 ONSPDs included an incorrect update of the ITL field with two LA changes in Northamptonshire. This error has been corrected from the February 2023 ONSPD.NOTE: There was an issue with the originally published file where some change orders yet to be included in OS Boundary-LineÔ (including The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022, The North Yorkshire (Structural Changes) Order 2022 and The Somerset (Structural Changes) Order 2022) were mistakenly implemented for terminated postcodes. Version 2 corrects this, so that ward codes E05014171–E05014393 are not yet included. Please note that this product contains Royal Mail, Gridlink, LPS (Northern Ireland), Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

The Crop Map of England (CROME) is a polygon vector dataset mainly containing the crop types of England. The dataset contains approximately 32 million hexagonal cells classifying England into over 15 main crop types, grassland, and non-agricultural land covers, such as Woodland, Water Bodies, Fallow Land and other non-agricultural land covers. The classification was created automatically using supervised classification (Random Forest Classification) from the combination of Sentinel-1 Radar and Sentinel-2 Optical Satellite images during the period late October 2020 – September 2021. The dataset was created to aid the classification of crop types from optical imagery, which can be affected by cloud cover. The results were checked against survey data collected by field inspectors and visually validated. The data has been split into the Ordnance Survey Ceremonial Counties and each county is given a three letter code. Please refer to the CROME specification document to see which county each CODE label represents.

All organisations hold information about the core of their business. The Forestry Commission holds information on trees and forests. We use this information to help us run our business and make decisions.

The role of the Forest Inventory (the Sub-compartment Database (SCDB) and the stock maps) is to be our authoritative data source, giving us information for recording, monitoring, analysis and reporting.

Through this it supports decision-making on the whole of the FC estate. Information from the Inventory is used by the FC, wider government, industry and the public for economic, environmental and social forest-related decision-making. Furthermore, it supports forestrelated national policy development and government initiatives, and helps us meet our national and international forest-related reporting responsibilities.

Information on our current forest resource, and the future expansion and availability of wood products from our forests, is vital for planners both in and outside the FC. It is used when looking at the development of processing industries, regional infrastructure, the effect upon communities of our actions, and to prepare and monitor government policies.

The Inventory (SCDB and stock maps), with ‘Future Forest Structure’ and the ‘rollback’ functionality of Forester, will help provide a definitive measure of trends in extent, structure, composition, health, status, use, and management of all FC land holdings. We require this to meet national and international commitments, to report on the sustainable management of forests as well as to help us through the process of business and Forest Design Planning. As well as helping with the above, the SCDB helps us address detailed requests from industry, government, non-government organisations and the public for information on our estate.

The FC’s growing national and international responsibilities and the requirements for monitoring and reporting on a range of forest statistics have highlighted the technical challenges we face in providing consistent, national level data. A well kept and managed SCDB and GIS (Geographical Information System - Forester) will provide the best solution for this and assist Countries in evidence-based policy making.

Looking ahead at international reporting commitments; one example of an area where requirements look set to increase will be reporting on our work to combat climate change and how our estate contributes to carbon sequestration. We have put in place processes to ensure that at least the basics of our inventory are covered:

1. The inventory of forests;
2. The land-uses;
3. The land we own ( Deeds);
4. The roads we manage.

We depend on others to allow us to manage the forests and to provide us with funds and in doing so we need to be seen to be responsible and accountable for our actions. A foundation of achieving this is good record keeping.

A sub compartment should be recognisable on the ground. It will be similar enough in land use, species or habitat composition, yield class, age, condition, thinning history etc. to be treated as a single unit. They will generally be contiguous in nature and will not be split by roads, rivers, open space etc. Distinct boundaries are required, and these will often change as crops are felled, thinned, replanted and resurveyed.

In some parts of the country foresters used historical and topographical features to delineate sub-compartment boundaries, such as hedges, walls and escarpments. In other areas no account of the history and topography of the site was taken, with field boundaries, hedges, walls, streams etc. being subsumed into the sub-compartment. Also, these features may or may not appear on the OS backdrop, again this was dependent on the staff involved and what they felt was relevant to the map. The main point is that, as managers we may find such obvious features in the middle of a sub-compartment when nothing is indicated on the stock map, while the same thing would be indicated elsewhere.

Attributes;

FOREST Cost centre Nos. COMPTMENT Compartemnt Nos. SUBCOMPT Sub-compartment letter SUBCOMPTID Unique identifier BLOCK Block nos. CULTCODE Cultivation Code CULTIVATN Cultivation PRIHABCODE Primary Habitat Code PRIHABITAT Primary Habitat PRILANDUSE Land Use of primary component PRISPECIES Primary component tree species PRI_PLYEAR prim. component year planted PRIPCTAREA Prim. component %Area of sub-compartment SECHABCODE Secondary Habitat Code SECHABITAT Secondary Habitat SECLANDUSE Land Use of secondary component SECSPECIES Secondary component tree species SEC_PLYEAR Secondary component year planted SECPCTAREA Secondary component %Area of sub-compartment TERLANDUSE Land Use of tertiary component TERSPECIES Tertiary component tree species TER_PLYEAR Tertiary component year planted TERPCTAREA Tertiary component %Area of sub-compartment TERHABITAT Tertiary Habitat TERHABCODE Tertiary Habitat Code

Any maps produced using this data should contain the following Forestry Commission acknowledgement: “Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right [Year] Ordnance Survey [100021242]”. Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for Lower layer Super Output Areas as at 31 December 2011 in England and Wales. The boundaries available are: Generalised (20m) - clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark); Version 3 - Amendments made to remove spike anomalies which occurred due to the automated production process. No changes to boundaries, names and codes have been undertaken. Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights. Download File SizesGeneralised (20m) - clipped to the coastline (22 MB)

REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/LSOA_Dec_2011_Boundaries_Generalised_Clipped_BGC_EW_V3/FeatureServerREST URL of WFS Server –https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/LSOA_Dec_2011_Boundaries_Generalised_Clipped_BGC_EW_V3/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilitiesREST URL of Map Server –https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/LSOA_Dec_2011_Boundaries_Generalised_Clipped_BGC_EW_V3/MapServer

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The aim of the project was to study the labour supply, effort, and decisions of the workers employed at the Garesfield Bute pit in County Durham.
Main Topics:

The Victorian Household Panel Study has been compiled from four sources: the wages book and plans of Garesfield Bute pit at High Spen in County Durham, England; the Ordnance Survey map of 1895; and the 1891 Census Enumerators' Books. It contains detailed information about the households, work places and assignments, output and pay of the hewers, putters and supervisory underground workers in the pit for the period June 1890 to January 1893. For hewers, an important feature of work and society was the system of marrowing, under which they chose their own work mates, and shared earnings with them. The Panel Study permits reconstruction of the history of marrow pairings during the period June 1890 to January 1893.

Data on work places and assignments, output and pay form an unbalanced panel of observations of the behaviour of those workers who were present in the pit from time to time. Household information is drawn from the 1891 Census Enumerators' Books, and is there fore a snapshot of household structure at a single point in time.

Release 1a consists of as accurate a transcription of the Garesfield Bute wages book, without any attempt at linkage or other interpretation. Release 1b includes codes linking workers across pays, and codes linking the wages book to the other three sources. Release 2 consists of datasets derived from the previous Release 1a and Release 1b. It includes an extra variable recording travel-to-work distance.

Field validation was carried out in Scotland in September and October 2011 and August to November 2012 by Roland Randall, Ian Strachan, Jonathan Cox, Alan Booth, Frazer Milne and S. Smith (CES) and Clive Bealey. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (2016) Ian Strachan, Alan Booth and CES, Jon Cox and Roland Randall collected the data in the field. All post processing was carried out in-house at the GeoData Institute by Dan Hall Ballester, Dan Ellis, Andy Murdock and Gemma Gubbins. Please see the metadata for Coastal Vegetated Shingle Survey of Scotland for more details about this data and the full report. http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/publications/commissioned_reports/739.pdfEach Coastal Vegetated Shingle polygon was given an Annex I code. The Annex I habitats were later also given EUNIS codes using the SNH Manual of terrestrial EUNIS habitats in Scotland. http://www.snh.gov.uk/publications-data-and-research/publications/search-the-catalogue/publication-detail/?id=2207and the associated correspondence tables http://www.snh.gov.uk/docs/A1479700.xls.The Coastal Vegetated Shingle survey polygons do not contain mosaics, geometries have not been duplicated. Only Annex I habitats were recorded. Habitat_code– This can be a EUNIS code from EUNIS, the European Nature Information SystemOr a new EUNIS units as created in the SNH Manual of terrestrial EUNIS habitats in Scotland http://www.snh.gov.uk/publications-data-and-research/publications/search-the-catalogue/publication-detail/?id=2207New EUNIS units can be new sub-type that relates to an Annex I habitat typenew sub-type that does not relate to an Annex I habitat typecomposite unit that includes a number of EUNIS types, all of which translate to the same Annex I habitat type.Habitat_name– This is the Annex I habitat code and name as listed in http://www.snh.gov.uk/publications-data-and-research/publications/search-the-catalogue/publication-detail/?This layer is included in the Habitat Map of Scotland and is used to provide information on the extent and distribution of 2 Annex I habitatsH1210 - Annual vegetation of drift lines -B2.12H1220 - Perennial vegetation of stony banks -B2.4€

All organisations hold information about the core of their business. Forestry England holds information on trees and forests. We use this information to help us run our business and make decisions.

The role of the Forest Inventory (the Sub-compartment Database (SCDB) and the stock maps) is to be our authoritative data source, giving us information for recording, monitoring, analysis and reporting. Through this it supports decision-making on the whole of the FE estate. Information from the Inventory is used by FE, wider government, industry and the public for economic, environmental and social forest-related decision-making.

Furthermore, it supports forest-related national policy development and government initiatives, and helps us meet our national and international forest-related reporting responsibilities. Information on our current forest resource, and the future expansion and availability of wood products from our forests, is vital for planners both in and outside FE. It is used when looking at the development of processing industries, regional infrastructure, the effect upon communities of our actions, and to prepare and monitor government policies. The Inventory (SCDB and stock maps), with ‘Future Forest Structure’ and the ‘rollback’ functionality of Forester, will help provide a definitive measure of trends in extent, structure, composition, health, status, use, and management of all FE land holdings.

We require this to meet national and international commitments, to report on the sustainable management of forests as well as to help us through the process of business and Forest Design Planning. As well as helping with the above, the SCDB helps us address detailed requests from industry, government, non-government organisations and the public for information on our estate. FE's growing national and international responsibilities and the requirements for monitoring and reporting on a range of forest statistics have highlighted the technical challenges we face in providing consistent, national level data. A well kept and managed SCDB and GIS (Geographical Information System - Forester) will provide the best solution for this and assist countries in evidence-based policy making. Looking ahead at international reporting commitments; one example of an area where requirements look set to increase will be reporting on our work to combat climate change and how our estate contributes to carbon sequestration. We have put in place processes to ensure that at least the basics of our inventory are covered:

1. The inventory of forests;
2. The land-uses;
3. The land we own ( Deeds);
4. The roads we manage.

We depend on others to allow us to manage the forests and to provide us with funds and in doing so we need to be seen to be responsible and accountable for our actions. A foundation of achieving this is good record keeping. A subcompartment should be recognisable on the ground. It will be similar enough in land use, species or habitat composition, yield class, age, condition, thinning history etc. to be treated as a single unit. They will generally be contiguous in nature and will not be split by roads, rivers, open space etc. Distinct boundaries are required, and these will often change as crops are felled, thinned, replanted and resurveyed. In some parts of the country foresters used historical and topographical features to delineate subcompartment boundaries, such as hedges, walls and escarpments. In other areas no account of the history and topography of the site was taken, with field boundaries, hedges, walls, streams etc. being subsumed into the sub-compartment. Also, these features may or may not appear on the OS backdrop, again this was dependent on the staff involved and what they felt was relevant to the map. The main point is that, as managers we may find such obvious features in the middle of a subcompartment when nothing is indicated on the stock map, while the same thing would be indicated elsewhere.

Attributes;

FOREST Cost centre Nos. COMPTMENT Compartment Nos. SUBCOMPT Sub-compartment letter BLOCK Block nos. CULTCODE Cultivation Code CULTIVATN Cultivation PRIHABCODE Primary Habitat Code PRIHABITAT Primary Habitat PRILANDUSE Land Use of primary component PRISPECIES Primary component tree species PRI_PLYEAR prim. component year planted PRIPCTAREA Prim. component %Area of sub-compartment SECHABCODE Secondary Habitat Code SECHABITAT Secondary Habitat SECLANDUSE Land Use of secondary component SECSPECIES Secondary component tree species SEC_PLYEAR Secondary component year planted SECPCTAREA Secondary component %Area of sub-compartment TERLANDUSE Land Use of tertiary component TERSPECIES Tertiary component tree species TER_PLYEAR Tertiary component year planted TERPCTAREA Tertiary component %Area of sub-compartment TERHABITAT Tertiary Habitat TERHABCODE Tertiary Habitat Code.

Any maps produced using this data should contain the following Forestry Commission acknowledgement: “Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2024 Ordnance Survey AC0000814847”.

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs), in the West Midlands Combined Authority for the 2021 Census geography.The boundaries available are: Generalised Clipped (BGC) - Generalised to 20m and clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark) and more generalised than the BFE boundaries.Lower layer Super Output AreasLower layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) are made up of groups of Output Areas (OAs), usually four or five. They comprise between 400 and 1,200 households and have a usually resident population between 1,000 and 3,000 persons.Using Census 2021 data, some changes were made to 2011 LSOAs as a result of population and household changes since 2011. New 2021 LSOAs were created by merging or splitting 2011 LSOAs to ensure that population and household thresholds were met.NoteThe map view is limited to 1,000 datapoints and if unfiltered may not show all points.Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.TopoJSON Shapefile for Power BIOn the Export tab you will find a file under the Alternative exports. This file is in TopoJSON format and is ready for use in compatible visualisation tools such as Power BI or Mapbox.

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for Middle layer Super Output Areas for England and Wales, as at December 2011. The BFE boundaries are full resolution - extent of the realm (Mean Low Water mark). Version 3 - Amendments made to remove spike anomalies which occurred due to the automated production process. No changes to boundaries, names and codes have been undertaken. Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.REST URL of Map Server – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/Middle_Layer_Super_Output_Areas_(Dec_2011)_Boundaries_Full_Extent_(BFE)_EW_V3/MapServerREST URL of WFS Server – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/Middle_Layer_Super_Output_Areas_Dec_2011_Boundaries_Full_Extent_BFE_EW_V3/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilitiesREST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/Middle_Layer_Super_Output_Areas_Dec_2011_Boundaries_Full_Extent_BFE_EW_V3_2022/FeatureServer

‘Listing’ is the all-encompassing term for the legal protection given to a building, monument, structure or site through the planning system. It is recognition of historical, architectural or archaeological significance, intended to ensure that the character of the asset in question is preserved for future generations. The main types of Listing are:

Listed Buildings Scheduled Monuments Registered Parks and Gardens Registered Battlefields Protected Wreck Sites World Heritage Sites

Data is updated daily. Further details are available on our website here - https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/

Historic England Open Data Hub - https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/open-data-hub/

Field descriptions Listed BuildingsPolygons are available for listed buildings listed or substantively amended since 4th April 2011.

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Name of building


 Grade
 Grade
 Grade of building; in descending order of importance: I, II*,II


 ListDate
 Listing date
 Date on which the building was added to the Statutory List of Buildings


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the listing was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that listed building was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares Polygon layer only; only populated where building footprint has been mapped 


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Building Preservation Notices

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Name of building


 BPNStart
 Building Preservation Notice start date
 Start date of the notice


 BPNExpire
 Building Preservation Notice expiry date
 Expiry date of the notice


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that building preservation notice was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares Polygon layer only 


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Certificates of Immunity

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Name of building


 COIStart
 Certificate of Immunity start date
 Start date of the certificate


 COIExpire
 Certificate of Immunity expiry date
 Expiry date of the certificate


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that certificate of immunity was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares Polygon layer only 


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Scheduled Monuments

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Statutory registered title of monument


 SchedDate
 Schedule date
 Date on which the monument was included in the Schedule of Monuments


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the scheduling was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that scheduled monument was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area

 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Registered Parks and Gardens

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Registered title of park and garden


 Grade
 Grade
 Grade of park and garden; in descending order of importance: I, II*, II


 RegDate
 Registration date
 Date on which the park and garden was included in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the registration was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that park and garden was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Registered Battlefields

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Registered title of battlefield


 RegDate
 Registration date
 Date on which the battlefield was included in the Register of Historic Battlefields


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the registration was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that battlefield was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting
 Easting
 Centroid easting


 Northing
 Northing
 Centroid northing

Protected Wreck Sites

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Name of wreck site


 DesigDate
 Designation date
 Date on which the wreck site was designated as a restricted area


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the designation was last amended


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that protected wreck was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Latitude
 Latitude
 Latitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)


 Longitude
 Longitude
 Longitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)

World Heritage Sites

  Field name


  Field alias


  Description



 List Entry
 List entry number
 Unique reference number from the National Heritage List for England


 Name
 Name
 Title of world heritage property


 InscrDate
 Inscription date
 Date on which the property was inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO


 AmendDate
 Amendment date
 Date on which the inscription was last amended


 Notes
 Notes
 Denotes if polygon is Property Boundary (noted as Core Area) or Buffer Zone


 CaptureScale
 Capture scale
 Scale at which the spatial representation of that World Heritage Site was captured


 hyperlink
 NHLE link
 URL of the record on the Historic England website


 area_ha
 Area (ha)
 Area of the polygon in hectares


 NGR
 National Grid Reference
 Ordnance Survey national grid reference of centroid


 Easting