Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
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About the product
1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer provides an excellent reference tool or location finder, allowing you to locate your area of interest immediately. The gazetteer can also be used to navigate around the map, geocode your data or create lists of places within a specified area.
1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer contains entries for airports, farms, hills, woodlands, commons and other places, including over 42 000 towns and settlements with coordinates to 1 km resolution.
Suggested applications
- Excellent place name locator
- Place name reference resource
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Take a look at how 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer data might appear in a GIS by launching our Product Viewer.
Features and benefits
- Enables you to find locations around the country quickly, as national coverage is held in one seamless file.
- Contains every name featured on the 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster product.
- It is updated in conjunction with Landranger® revision cycles, giving you product consistency. Highly detailed, containing over 250 000 names from small villages to cities.
- Most detailed gazetteer available, with up to 19 references per name.