GB Counties - Past and Present
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
dataset
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
GB Counties - Past and Present
https://os.uk
eng
location
Administrative units
publication
2008-06-01
county boundary
-8.45
1.78
60.86
49.86
1997-11-30
creation
2015-07-01
notPlanned
Mainly from previous editions of OS Boundary-Line
publication
2010-12-08
false
GB Counties is not a compliant INSPIRE Address dataset
Shape
Customer Services
Ordnance Survey
Adanac Drive
Southampton
SO160AS
United Kingdom
03456050505
distributor
Data Office
Ordnance Survey
Explorer House, Adanac Drive
Southampton
SO16 0AS
United Kingdom
+44 (0)3456 050505
pointOfContact
2022-07-26T10:50:32