Identification

Title

GB Counties - Past and Present

Abstract

Explore the county boundaries of Great Britain throughout time with our counties map. These two datasets of county boundary information have been released as part of Boundary-Line through the popular OS OpenData portal. OS has been mapping the changing physical landscape of Great Britain for the past 224 years. It is not only the landscape which has changed, but our county boundaries have also changed over the past two centuries. These datasets have been created as part of a project with the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG). The current and historic county boundaries have been added to our administrative boundary data under the open data portfolio. Counties defined by the Local Government Act 1972 and used for administrative purposes. Ceremonial counties, as defined by the Lieutenancies Act 1997, refer to the areas relating to the Lord-lieutenants, the monarch’s representatives. Historic counties are geographical boundaries that date back over many centuries

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://os.uk/business-government/products/counties

protocol:

name: Product description

description: Web page with product description and links to guides

function: information

https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/BoundaryLine/downloads?area=GB&format=GeoPackage&redirect

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Download GeoPackage

description: Boundary-Line GB including historic and ceremonial counties

function: download

https://os.uk/os-demos/counties-app/

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Historic and ceremonial counties browser

description: Historic and ceremonial counties browser based demo

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

GB Counties - Past and Present

codeSpace

https://os.uk

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

location

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Administrative units

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

county boundary

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.45

East bounding longitude

1.78

North bounding latitude

60.86

South bounding latitude

49.86

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

1997-11-30

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2015-07-01

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Mainly from previous editions of OS Boundary-Line

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

GB Counties is not a compliant INSPIRE Address dataset

Data format

name of format

Shape

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

telephone number

email address

customerservices@os.uk

web address

description:

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

telephone number

email address

customerservices@os.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-11-09T10:27:35

Metadata language

eng