Gazetteer of British Place Names

Downloadable Version

The Gazetteer of British Place Names provides an exhaustive Place Name Index to Great Britain, containing over 280,000 entries. It lists the historic county and the main administrative areas in which each place lies. It forms a valuable resource for those working in the media, tourism, heritage, publishing or education. It is also of great value for local and family historians.

A Downloadable Version of the Gazetteer of British Place Name is available in CSV and JSON format.

The Downloadable Version contains the main fields found in the online version. Please read the Gazetteer's accompanying notes before using the Gazetteer.

The Gazetteer of British Place Names data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) . You are free to share, copy, and adapt the data for any purpose, including commercial and AI training, provided you give appropriate credit to the Gazetteer of British Place Names.

The information contained in the gazetteer has been published in good faith and every effort has been made to check its accuracy. Nevertheless, the publisher, editor or compilers can accept no responsibility for errors or omissions, changes in the details given, or for any loss, damage or inconvenience thereby caused.