Credits and Copyright

Data Sources

British Place Names includes data from the following sources:

Copyright

All Ordnance Survey and ONS data is © Crown Copyright and is used under the Open Government Licence.

Open Streetmap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and used under the Open Commons Database Licence.

Creative Commons License

All original material on British Place Names is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

Note! Although, like all Good Stuff websites, the original content of this site has a Creative Commons licence, meaning you are free to reuse it without charge under the terms of that licence, the reality is that very little of this site is original! Most of the content comes from our data suppliers, and they have their own terms and conditions. So please don't copy data wholesale from this site and re-publish it elsewhere. All of the data used here is available via an API or download from the original sources, so if you want to use a lot of it, then it's better to get it from the underlying data supplier. Just follow the links above.

Credits

Design and Programming is by Good Stuff.

Geeky Stuff

For those that care abut such things, this site is built on an open source platform using Linux, Apache, PHP and MariaDB. The underlying design is based on a lightweight object-oriented codebase, and the front-end uses the Foundation framework.

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