The gazetteer service can be used to relate place names to stored geometry. English towns visiting and appreciating our historic towns and cities. The uk file contains about 32,000 names of populated places, rivers, hills etc. Jan 29, 2020 great britain ordnance survey place name gazetteer search database of 250,000 british place names, leading to a location map showing allnumeric coordinates in the british national grid reference system and a listing of all the maps sold by the ordnance survey that. Information on the origins of some canadian place names can be found at the geographical names origins site. A common was land over which manorial tenants had certain rights, usually that of pasture for livestock. Gazetteers maps and geographic information system gis. All the authorities have place name data which is aggregated into the composite gazetteer of australia. List of places in the united kingdom and ireland with. Essequibo coast road northwards from supenaam river place name kilometres miles supenaam river 0 0 good hope 1 0. In line with british standard 76662006 the nsg is regularly updated by all 174 highway authorities with additional street data asd such as road centre lines, ownership details, level of reinstatement required, height weight and width restrictions and direction of travel. Gazetteer definition of gazetteer by the free dictionary.
The gazetteer is extracted from the place names database pndb where each place name is represented as a point of latitude and longitude. The records include the names of populated places and administrative areas, water features such as lakes, rivers and bays, terrain features like mountains, capes and valleys. Gazetteer of british place names is sold from their web site, that you can visit via this link. Detailed contents gazetteer of british place names. Locating past places in britain portsmouth research portal. The american national geospatialintelligence agency and the u. Gazetteer definition and meaning collins english dictionary. Lyndon green was the green or common pasture belonging to the manor of lyndon.
Gazetteers and directories cambridge university library. Included place names range from the familiar to the obscure, among them beer, findlater, broadbottom, and. Country files gns complete files of geographic names for geopolitical areas from gns isoiec 10646 unicode utf8 compliant as of 18 july 2002 we provide complete files of geographic names information covering countries or geopolitical areas. Hunters, fishers, photographers, hikers, campers and other outdoor enthusiasts will find this publication to be an indispensible tool when traveling throughout the province. It is believed that this dispatch put things in motion on the path for the publishing of british colonial. Apr 02, 2020 information on the origins of some canadian place names can be found at the geographical names origins site. Search through 200 canadian cities, towns and villages, which can be ordered by first letter, province or population. This district lies around the junction of barrows lane and brays road and is shown as lyn green on the ordnance survey map of 1834 and as lyne green in the 1861 census. Welcome to the columbia gazetteer of the world online, the renowned geographic encyclopedia. Nov 14, 2011 this revised edition of the dictionary of british place names includes over 17,000 engaging and informative entries, tracing the development of the featured place names from earliest times to the present day. Mar 18, 2016 download the gazetteer of dartmoor names. The gazetteer contains all place names that are present on ordnance. A dictionary of british placenames oxford quick reference.
A gazetteer of place names in the united kingdom showing each places county, unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates. The gazetteer is available to view and download via a web map application. A gazetteer is a book or a part of a book which lists and describes places. Download geographical names data natural resources canada. Adapted from gazetteer of guyana, published by lands and surveys department and the german agency for technical cooperation, georgetown, 2001 1. The junction of tamworth road and whitehouse common road is described as whitehouse on the ordnance survey map 1st. Index of place names ipn office for national statistics. This is the list of approved place names as per the qld place names act 1994. Find the historic county for one of over 280,000 places in great britain. Because of changes in boundaries and entity names, the creation of new entities, and the dissolution of others, users should not expect a onetoone relationship between the entity names and codes in these files and the 20122018 american community survey, 2010 census, census 2000, or 1990 census files.
The bc gazetteer is available as a zipped shp file, csv or xlsx. Na single dataset covering the whole of great britain. Download gnis data the board on geographic names has many files available for download. Update frequency, quarterly january, april, july and october. Gazetteer of british place names genealogy specialists. For further details see historylineage statement below.
Included place names range from the familiar to the obscure, among them beer, findlater, broadbottom, and great snoring. British columbia place names search for place names in british columbia. List of places in the united kingdom and ireland with counterintuitive pronunciations. Whitehouse common history of birmingham places a to y. There is also information available on the origins of place names in britain. Nb name searching is done on fuzzy searching which means it isnt always an exact match but a match something like what is typed. United kingdom england, scotland, wales dictionary of british place names oxford university. Gazetteer of british place names the association of british. The british online historical gazetteer contains historical place names from the 1911 census. Aug 15, 2018 there is also information available on the origins of place names in britain. Mar 01, 2014 besides exact matches or soundalike ones, you can search for place names that begin with, contain, or end with the specified characters, which might be handy if you can only decipher part of a place name on a census etc.
You can download the ipn free of charge from the open geography portal. In its simplest form, it is a listing of map names with a map reference for example, a towns latitude and longitude or its map gridreference as listed at the end of a reference atlas what is a gazetteer. Once you have zoomed, panned and filtered to your desired results hit the search button to list details with the option to download in a variety of projections and formats. Mar 24, 2020 gazetteer of british place names association of british counties provides an exhaustive place name index to great britain, containing over 50,000 entries. Gazetteers fibiwiki families in british india society.
A comprehensive dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, gazetteer, and directory with indexes for more than 40,000 place names for villages, settlements, towns, communities, and cities in the former austriahungary or austrohungarian empire. Gazetteer of british place names unbiased digital product. The moeml gazetteer of early modern london is a descriptive gazetteer in that each place is linked to an encyclopedia page with a. Gns geographical names sp is a listing of all official place names in the province of british columbia. Bc gazetteer datasets data catalogue british columbia. Provides location and topographic map sheet showing the place or feature. Report and gazetteer of burma, native and british part i 1883 by douglas macneill, south east asia visions, cornell university. The gazetteer can be considered to have three main functions. To get started, you can type the name of a place or phrase in the quick search box and search place names or the full text of gazetteer articles. Lovells gazetteer of british north america microform. Lovells gazetteer of the dominion of canada microform. The search on gb1900 names with autocomplete zooms to place provides a fast way. Bc geographical names custom download is a custom downloadable output.
The place names gazetteer contains a list of 336 towns and villages across northern ireland. Another volume for every local historians bookshelf local historianthis revised edition of the dictionary of british placenames includes over 17,000 engaging and informative entries, tracing the development of the featured place names from earliest times to the present day. A grid reference guide to dartmoor placenames named. United kingdom gazetteer, uk place names cities database by region, county and district city database description. You may access nearly 350 000 currently approved geographical names stored on the canadian geographical names data base cgndb, canadas national bank of official geographical names. Volume i 1880 pdf download, digital library of india, version. These names are authorized by the geographical names board of canada gnbc, through its provincial, territorial and federal representatives. Dictionary of british place names oxford reference. The gazetteer provides an exhaustive place name index to great britain, containing over 50,000 entries. Board on geographic names bless their nylon socks have just about the whole world mapped out, and give away a subset of their data as geonet. Listing of webbased gazetteers covering the whole of the british isles.
The columbia gazetteer of the world online columbia. Place names gazetteer queensland datasets open data. The abc recognises ninetytwo historic counties of the united kingdom. A vision of britain through time, which merges listings of administrative units, computerised 19thcentury gazetteers including the imperial gazetteer of england and wales and the ordnance gazetteer of scotland, and historical maps, to create a single searchable gazetteer of british places, including many variant place names. The ipn is a gazetteer linking over 70,000 named places in england and. A gazetteer is an online dictionary of geospatial words or terms, with or without applicable feature geometries. Welcome to the gazetteer of british place names introduction. The geonames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge. To find out more about the data visit place names the location information knowledge platform what data is available for australia. An account of legends and modern reports of ghosts and hauntings throughout the united kingdom in such famous houses as borley.
The index of place names ipn links approximately 70000 places in. The columbia gazetteer of the world online is a dynamic tool for understanding our complex world. Gazetteer of the second anglo boer war 1899 1902 epub gazetteer of the second anglo boer war 1899 1902 recognizing the way ways to acquire this book gazetteer of the second anglo boer war 1899 1902 is additionally useful. Wikishire is an online gazetteer of great britain, ireland and associated territories. United kingdom gazetteer, uk place names cities database by. About the canadian geographical names database natural. The gazetteer identifies the corresponding historic county with respect to the counties detached parts act 1844, in addition to crossreferencing other administrative areas.
Lyndon, lyndon end, lyndon green history of birmingham. Place names gazetteer queensland open data certificate awarded. Also, browse through maps that pinpoint each location using our interactive mapping tool. The columbia gazetteer of the world online provides users with access to authoritative information on more than 170,000 places and areas around the world. Hungarian village finder, atlas, and gazetteer for the. The aim is to include every settlement above isolated houses and farmsteads which has a distinct name and identity. Find the historic county of a location by place name, post code, or by browsing. Online edition of the reference book of the same name 0198527586 with over 14,400 entries. The legit version of the product is not distributed through other stores, even though you might come across several other sites that link directly to the payment web page. The listing is sourced from the bc geographical names information system, which is the master database of bc place names. Over 50,000 place names are included alongside their national grid reference. The gazetteer is extracted from the bc geographical names information system bcgnis, the master database of british columbia place names. Three final datasets have been created and made available for download. Lovells gazetteer of british north america internet archive.
It may have referred to whitehouse farm which stood on whitehouse common road between ashfurlong crescent and the tamworth road. A gazetteer of place names in the united kingdom showing each place s county, unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates. Please read the accompanying notes before using the gazetteer. The purchase of the gazetteer of british place names ebook and data extract confers on the purchaser a nonexclusive licence to use the data for personal or commercial use, provided the data is directly not soldon or licenced to third parties. The gazetteer of british place names ebook and data extract. Jump to navigation jump to search this is a sublist of list of names. Gazetteer of british place names the association of. It lists the historic county and the main administrative areas in which each place lies. These files contain names recognized by the geographical names board of canada. The geometry is specific with respect to the coordinate reference system. This uk gazetteer cities database is a complete compilation of united kingdom local place names, categorized in regional level, county level and district city level.
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