1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer
With over a quarter of a million entries the 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer is a comprehensive guide to place names within Great Britain from 'A' Bheinn Bhan' to 'Zulu Fm'. The gazetteer contains all place names that are present on Ordnance Survey's published 1:50,000 Landranger® maps. Each entry is referenced to the National Grid to an accuracy of one kilometre.
For each entry in the 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer there is a range of additional attribute information present. Covering the type of feature represented by the name; the latitude and longitude; the 1 and 20 km National Grid squares; the county the entry is in; the number(s) of the published Landranger® mapsheets; and the date the entry was added to the gazetteer.
The following types of features are present in the 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer:
- Cities, Towns and Villages
- Hills and Mountains
- Farms
- Historical Buildings or Antiquities
- Lakes and Lochs
- Forests and Woods
- Geographical Feature, e.g. moorlands
- Named Feature, e.g. Airports and Nature Reserves
Initially the 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer will be available for download as a single file. In the future there may be the possibility of selecting portions of the gazetteer for download, for example all the names in a single county.
| Mountain: Ben Nevis |
City: Cardiff |
Lake: Lake Windermere |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Gazetteer Entry | 20084 | 43093 | 252909 |
| National Grid 1 km square | NN1671 | ST1876 | NY3800 |
| Place Name(s) | Ben Nevis | Cardiff or Caerdydd | Windermere |
| National Grid 20 km square | NN06 | ST06 | NY20 |
| Latitude (degrees) | 56 | 51 | 54 |
| Latitude (minutes) | 47.9 | 28.9 | 23.8 |
| Longitude (degrees) | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Longitude (minutes) | 0.3 | 10.4 | 56.8 |
| National Grid Northing co-ordinate | 771500 | 176500 | 500500 |
| National Grid Easting co-ordinate | 216500 | 318500 | 338500 |
| East or West of the Greenwich Meridian for Longitude |
W | W | W |
| A County Code | HL | CD | CU |
| Abbreviated County Name | Highld | Card | Cumbr |
| Feature Type | H | T | W |
| Edit date | 01-MAR-1993 | 01-JUL-1998 | 01-MAR-1993 |
| Update code | I | U | I |
| Landranger® Mapsheet(s) | 41 | 171 | 90 |
Further information on the 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer is available to registered users within the Digimap service.
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