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Place names of the
United Kingdom
PCGN deals with
geographical names outside of the United Kingdom. The
links below will take you to web pages relating to place
names within the United Kingdom.
For
information on Great Britain, please refer to
Ordnance
Survey, the official body responsible for the mapping of
Great Britain. There is also information available on
the origins of place names in Britain which can be found on
Ordnance Survey's place names page.
For places names in Northern Ireland, please refer to
Ordnance Survey Northern
Ireland.
For information on geographical names in England, in
particular the etymology of names, consult the
Key to English Place-Names
.
For information on geographical names in Scotland, contact
the Scottish Place-Name Society.
To search for geographical names in Scotland, please consult
the Gazetteer for
Scotland.
The
British
Online Historical Gazetteer contains historical place
names from the 1911 census.

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