The aim of the Landslides Project is to define, describe and catalogue the landslides and mass movements of Great Britain and interpret them in terms of the hazard that they engender so that they may be avoided, or mitigated. A central part of this project is the operation of the National Landslide Database. The National Landslide Database forms the primary record of landslide information in Great Britain. It records information gathered by the Landslide Project and projects elsewhere in the BGS on landslide events and landforms throughout Great Britain. It incorporates information from other databases, including regional landslide databases held within BGS which includes the National Landslide Database created for the DOE in 1994. The database records the name and location of all landslides known to the project and wherever possible also records information on classification, dimensions, physical characteristics, geology, history, causal factors and impacts of each landslide as well as references to other data sources.
