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1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer
1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer contains over 250 000 place names and is the most
detailed gazetteer available.
This will allow you to locate your area of interest quickly. You can also use it to navigate around the map, geocode your own information or create lists of places within a specified area.
Here 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer is overlaid on 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster.
Features and benefits
- FREE to view, download and use under OS OpenData™ terms.
- Enables you to find locations around the country quickly, as national coverage is held in one file.
- Contains entries for airports, farms, hills, woodlands, commons and other places, including over 42 000 towns and settlements with coordinates to 1 km resolution.
- Contains every name featured in 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster.
Suggested uses
- Excellent place name locator
- Reference for place names
Technical details
Format: Colon-separated variable text file.
Data structure: ASCII text file, colon separated.
Scale: 1:50 000 (designed to be viewed with the 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster product).
Update frequency: Annually – June (complete re-supply – Update Code Field indicates whether the record has changed since the previous supply).
Supply: Online download and DVD.
Coverage: Great Britain.
Useful links
1:50 000 Scale Raster user guide (with gazetteer sections)
