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Vegetation plot data from the UKCEH Countryside Survey, Great Britain, 2025

This dataset consists of plant species presence and abundance in different sizes of plots recorded from 100 1km squares across Great Britain in 2025, as part of a rolling soil and vegetation...

Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) surface sediment colloidal carbohydrate concentration in saltmarsh and mudflat habitats

The dataset details surface sediment colloidal carbohydrate concentrations across six intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. Colloidal carbohydrate concentrations in surface sediments...

UK gridded population at 1 km resolution for 2021 based on Census 2021/2022 and Land Cover Map 2021

This dataset contains gridded human population with a spatial resolution of 1 km x 1 km for the UK based on Census 2021 (Census 2022 for Scotland) and Land Cover Map 2021 input data. Data on...

Countryside Survey 1998 mapped estimates of linear feature lengths in Great Britain

This dataset consists of stock (length) data for linear features across Great Britain in 1998 in a vector format. The data are national estimates generated by analysing the sample data from 569 1km...

Water chemistry of Welsh upland rivers (2012-2013)

These data consist of stream water chemistry for selected Welsh upland rivers. The sampling sites were located in sixty one small and medium catchments. Catchments were chosen from the Welsh Acid...

Insect species richness for each plant species and insect-plant interactions from the Database of Insects and their Food Plants [DBIF]

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset consists of 4,397 insect species associated with 679 native plant species, 120 archaeophytes, and 223 neophytes from the Database of Insects and...

Leaf growth, nutrient, and stable isotope responses of seagrass exposed to nutrient enrichment, Laamu Atoll, Maldives, 2022-2023

The data consist of leaf extension rates of seagrass growth as the primary response variable; elemental and isotopic compositions of seagrass above- and below-ground biomass; seagrass morphological...

Countryside Survey 1998 estimates of Broad Habitat areas in Great Britain

This dataset consists of stock (area) data for Broad Habitats across Great Britain in 1998. The data are national estimates generated by analysing the sample data from 569 1km squares and scaling...

G-BASE (Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment) for south west England - stream sediments and shallow (5-20cm) soils

[This metadata record has been superseded, see http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480412].The G-BASE programme involves systematic sampling and the determination of chemical elements in samples...

QICS Paper: The use of scientific diving in support of a novel carbon dioxide release experiment

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a way of possibly reducing impacts from fossil fuel emissions by injecting large volumes of carbon dioxide into appropriate geological formations. Some of the...

Sub-hourly river flow data observations from 1369 river gauges in the UK, 1948-2023 (UK-Flow15)

This dataset provides a coherent, quality-controlled collection of 15-minute river flow observations from across the United Kingdom. It brings together more than 1,300 gauging stations and over...

Spatial and temporal datasets for mixing of fluids in a dyke-like (slot) geometry investigated using low-temperature laboratory experiments

These spatial and temporal image datasets are of mixing fluids in a dyke-like (slot) geometry investigated using low-temperature laboratory experiments which are described in the paper Analogue...

Unemployment Rate, Region

Unemployment numbers and rates for those aged 16 or over. The unemployed population consists of those people out of work, who are actively looking for work and are available to start...

London Learner Survey

From 1 August 2019, the Secretary of State for Education delegated responsibility for the commissioning, delivery and management of London’s Adult Skills Fund (ASF), formerly known as the Adult...

Karst geohazard database

The current database was developed to record Karst Geohazard information acquired as part of its onshore core and commissioned mapping programmes. Information held on the database includes details...

Historic reconstructions of daily groundwater levels for eight boreholes in Burkina Faso (NERC Grant NE/M008827/1)

This dataset consists of reconstructions of daily groundwater levels for eight boreholes in Burkina Faso. Data for each borehole is provided in an individual csv file, with reconstructed...

Land survey collection of photographs

This is the core collection of photographs in BGS it represents photographs taken by professional photographers and selected by subject and quality for public reference in the BGS libraries. The...

UK Sustainable Development Goal 6.6.1: groundwater sub-indicator (1990-2019)

The dataset consists of data for the UK for the Sustainable Development Goal 6.6.1: groundwater sub-indicator for the period 1990 to 2019. The dataset reports for the UK against Sub-Indicator 5 of...

Mechanical properties of saw-cut Westerly Granite during injection from a borehole in a laboratory sample (NERC grant NE/K009656/1)

This dataset is used and fully described/interpreted in the paper: Passelegue, F. X., N. Brantut, T. M. Mitchell, Fault reactivation by fluid injection: Controls from stress state and injection...

Property Subsidence Assessment dataset

The property subsidence assessment dataset provides an understanding of the shrink-swell hazard at both the individual property and/or postcode level for England and Wales. It builds upon the BGS...