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You have instant access to a quarter of a million British place names.
There are 143 Love spots in Britain and some quirky places on the British map.
The coastline length around mainland Great Britain is 11 072.76 miles.
Try our place names gazetteer
We've got a quarter of a million locations for you to find! The Specific search is faster and more focused, whereas the Wider search is intuitive and yields more results but takes a little longer.
Start your search here…
This search facility uses Ordnance Survey's gazetteer of 250 000 place names and links directly to our leisure map shop.
Origins of place names on our maps...
Many place names have Welsh, Gaelic, Cornish or Anglo Saxon origins, and Norse, Latin and Norman influences, with descriptions reflecting landscape features, settlements and the local communities.
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