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Ceremonial County

A ceremonial county is an area that has an appointed Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff and is used for ceremonial purposes in relation to the monarchy. These areas are referred to as ceremonial...

Road Node

A point spatial object that is used to break up the road network for connectivity. The road network splits for the following circumstances: The location where an attribute recorded on the Road Link...

Maintenance Point

A feature which has a point geometry and provides information about whether the road is maintained at public expense by a national or local highway authority, a road authority or is maintained by...

Maintenance Line

A feature which has a line / curve geometry and provides information about whether the road is maintained at public expense by a national or local highway authority, a road authority or is...

Historic European Region

The exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 01 January 2021 resulted in the repeal of the European Regions as active electoral areas. For the purposes of Boundary Review, the original...

Structure Point

Feature which has a point geometry and represents a freestanding manmade construction that is not a building and is less than 4m square but is considered to be of sufficient interest to be...

Routing Structure

These indicate the location of key structures related to the highway network. These may be: Barriers: Structures or equipment constructed to control, obstruct, or prevent passage or access Bridges...

Railway Node

A point spatial object that is used to break up the Railway Network for connectivity. The Railway Network splits for the following circumstances: The location where an attribute changes The...

Lower Tier Local Authority

This feature type has been created to provide greater alignment between OS data and Office for National Statistics (ONS) data and to support a wider range of analysis. Welsh and Scottish Unitary...

Restriction

Restriction includes turn restrictions, restriction for vehicles, and access restrictions. Turn restrictions are a restriction based upon a vehicle manoeuvre. This type of restriction includes...

Average and Indicative Speed

The Average and Indicative Speed feature type provides two sets of speed information for all roads in Great Britain. These are: A historic average speed in kilometres per hours (kph). In this...

GLA Assembly Constituency

With the introduction of the regional government for London (referred to as the Greater London Authority or GLA by OS NGD documentation), the proportional representation voting area for this new...

Polling District

A polling district is the subdivision of a parliamentary constituency for the purpose of a UK Parliamentary election. Polling districts are not maintained on a regular basis and have mostly been...

Structure Line

Feature which has a line geometry and represents a linear, freestanding, manmade construction that is not a building and is not wide enough to capture as a structure. Examples include a gate or...

Connecting Node

A Connecting Node is a point feature that identifies the point along the Road Link which the Path Link connects to. The Connecting Node has been snapped to a vertex along the Road Link and provides...

Water Point

Point feature associated with permanent inland water that is too small to be captured as a Water feature but which OS consider to be of sufficient interest to be captured.

Road Line

A line feature representing the edges of a traffic calming area in the road network. (This abstract has been temporarily padded to import into GeoNetwork)

Site

Polygon feature which represents the recognisable extent of certain types of function or activity. Examples include a caravan site, a university, and a railway centre.

Upper Tier Local Authority

This feature type has been created to provide greater alignment between OS data and Office for National Statistics (ONS) data and to support a wider range of analysis. Welsh and Scottish Unitary...

Structure

Polygon feature representing a manmade construction that is not a building. Examples include a mast, a chimney, and a crane.