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).

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

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).

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.

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)

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This is the Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain as at December 2015 (revised version, published July 2016). The IPN was first produced after the 1831 Census; this new version has been greatly expanded in content and extent. Featuring over 87,000 entries, it lists the names of localities and geography areas throughout England, Scotland and Wales. New geographies added are historic counties, lieutenancy counties, and police force areas. New features include code fields for place names, a separate indicator field to show where places are split across geographic areas, the streamlining of the previous local authority district fields into one field, and the expansion of Welsh language names. Latitude and longitude have also been added to bring the product in line with other ONS Geography products. The IPN is published annually and with an updated and informative user guide giving a full rundown and explanation of the contents (File Size 33MB).

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)

Place names are important carriers of spatial information and attribute information for geographic entities. Transliteration of place names refers to the use of Chinese characters to translate place names in another language. However, current place name transliteration work suffers from issues such as time-consuming and inconsistent manual translation, as well as low accuracy in machine translation. Therefore, this article proposes a knowledge graph based method for English place name transliteration. This method mainly solves the core problem in place name translation: syllable optimization. By using a deep learning based phoneme generation method to generate place name proper phonemes, it is convenient to optimize the syllables of proper names using the constructed English place name knowledge graph. This knowledge graph-based syllable optimization effectively solves problems in machine translation, such as incomplete rule representation, infinite loops, one-to-many optimization results, weight setting, and nested rule optimization. Experimental comparisons conducted on Canadian place names demonstrate that the accuracy of the transliteration based on the knowledge graph can reach 91.2%, indicating that the proposed method improves the accuracy and efficiency of place name translation.

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).

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.

In English place name analysis, meanings are often derived from the resemblance of roots in place names to topographical features, proper names and/or habitation terms in one of the languages that have had an influence on English place names. The problem here is that it is sometimes difficult to determine the base language to use to interpret the roots. The purpose of this paper is to stochastically determine the resemblance between 18799 English place names and 84687 place names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Ancient Rome. Each English place name is ranked according to the extent to which it resembles place names from the other countries, and this provides a basis for determining the likely language to use to interpret the place name. A number of observations can be made using the ranking provided. In particular, it is found that ‘Harlington’ is the most archetypically English place name in the English sample, and ‘Anna’ is the least. Furthermore, it is found that the place names in the non-English datasets are most similar to Norwegian place names and least similar to Welsh place names.

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 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.REST URL of ArcGIS for INSPIRE View Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/Index_of_Place_Names_in_Great_Britain_(July_2016)/MapServerREST URL of ArcGIS for INSPIRE Feature DownloadService – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/Index_of_Place_Names_in_Great_Britain_July_2016_/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilitiesREST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/Index_of_Place_Names_in_Great_Britain_July_2016_2022/FeatureServer

Statistics on towns and cities in England and Wales with a focus on housing and deprivation.

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

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.REST URL of ArcGIS for INSPIRE Feature DownloadService – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/Index_of_Place_Names_in_Great_Britain_July_2016_/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilitiesREST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/Index of Place Names in Great Britain (July 2016)_new/FeatureServer