1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster is a small-scale, digital, raster mapping product giving a regional view, similar in content and appearance to a typical road atlas.
Coverage: All of Great Britain
Data structure: Raster
Supply format: TIFF-LZW
Version Date: May 2025
Data provider: Ordnance Survey
The BGS GeoClimate: shrink–swell national datasets show potential change in subsidence due to changes in climate. They have been developed by combining long-term UK Climate Projection (UKCP) scenarios for rainfall and temperature changes with the geotechnical properties of the ground, to identify areas projected to experience the largest increases in susceptibility to subsidence over the next century.
Coverage: All of Great Britain
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile
Version Date: Version 1
Data provider: British Geological Survey
BGS GeoCoast Open contains a detailed suite of statistical data based on the underlying datasets (GeoCoast Premium). These include, for example, percentage of county at threat from inundation and percentage of county coastline with high susceptibility to erosion. In addition, there is a tool to compare or share best practise at a regional scale and streamline the consideration of multiple underlying datasets through a simple, high-level scheme, presented as domains.
Coverage: All of Great Britain
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile
Version Date: Version 1
Data provider: British Geological Survey
Example product: BGS GeoScour Open 1
Example product: BGS GeoScour Open 2
Example product: BGS GeoScour Open 3
BGS GeoScour Open
Free OpenData
The BGS GeoScour Open datasets provide a generalised overview of the natural characteristics and properties of catchment and riverine environments for the assessment of river scour in Great Britain.
Coverage: All of Great Britain
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile
Version Date: Version 2
Data provider: British Geological Survey
The BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid datasets provide a generalised overview of the susceptibility to six naturally occurring geohazards in Great Britain. The hexagon grid provides a national-scale summary of the GeoSure data product. The detailed GeoSure dataset is also available to licence and provides further detail at a scale of 1:50 000.
Coverage: All of Great Britain
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile, and GeoPackage
Version Date: Version 8
Data provider: British Geological Survey
Generalised digital geological map data based on BGS’ published poster maps of the UK (north and south). Bedrock-related themes were created by generalisation of 1:50 000 data to make the 2007 fifth edition bedrock geology map.
Coverage: All of the United Kingdom
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile, and MapInfo
Version Date: Version 5
Data provider: British Geological Survey
Example product: BGS Hydrogeology 625k digital hydrogeological map of the UK 1
The BGS hydrogeological map indicates aquifer potential in generalised terms using a threefold division of geological formations: (i) those in which intergranular flow in the saturated zone is dominant; (ii) those in which flow is controlled by fissures or discontinuities; and (iii) less permeable formations including aquifers concealed at depth beneath covering layers.
Coverage: All of the United Kingdom
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile, and GeoPackage
Version Date: Version 5
Data provider: British Geological Survey
Example product: BGS Mining hazard (not including coal) 1 km hex grid 1
The BGS mining hazard (not including coal) 1 km hex grid dataset provides a generalised overview of the likelihood for mining to have occurred. It provides a national-scale summary of the presence of mining and an indication of the level of hazard associated with old workings.
Coverage: All of Great Britain
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile, and GeoPackage
Version Date: Version 8
Data provider: British Geological Survey
Example product: BGS Soil Parent Material Model 1
Example product: BGS Soil Parent Material Model 2
Example product: BGS Soil Parent Material Model 3
BGS Soil Parent Material Model
Free OpenData
Soils are the result of weathering processes that occur on the Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets the geosphere and hydrosphere. We live in this ‘critical zone’, relying on our soils to grow our food and sustain the biodiversity and health of our environment.
Coverage: All of Great Britain
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile, and GeoPackage
Version Date: Version 6
Data provider: British Geological Survey
Example product: BGS/UKHSA Radon data: Indicative Atlas of Radon 1
The joint UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)-BGS Indicative Atlas of Radon in the United Kingdom presents an overview of the results of detailed mapping of radon potential (defined as the estimated percentage of homes in an area above the radon action level).
Coverage: All of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Data structure: Vector
Supply format: ESRI® Shapefile, and GeoPackage
Version Date: Version 3 (GB); Version 1 (NI)
Data provider: British Geological Survey
