OS Open Names
OS Open Names is a comprehensive dataset of place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain. The data contains accurate and current settlement names, road names and numbers, postcodes and their locations, with additional contextual information and links to other datasets.
Accurate locations of streets and postcodes
Let your customer-facing staff find places quickly when talking to callers. OS Open Names provides the accurate locations of streets and postcodes in Great Britain.
Place name data
Quickly look up places and roads with two names. OS Open Names contains place name data in English and their Welsh, Scots or Gaelic alternatives.
Comprehensive National Grid data
OS Open Names contains over 870 000 named and numbered roads, nearly 44 000 settlements and over 1.6 million postcodes, all matched/mapped to the National Grid.
Access: Download
Data themes: Administrative and Statistical Units, Geographical Names, Transport
Data structure: Vector
Coverage: Great Britain
Scale: 1:1 250 to 1:10 000
Format: CSV, GML 3.2.1, GeoPackage
Ordering area: All of Great Britain
Publication months: January, April, July, October
OS Data Hub plan: Energy & Infrastructure Plan, OS OpenData Plan (FREE), Premium Plan, Public Sector Plan
OS Open Names level of detail
OS Open Names doesn’t go down to the level of locations of individual houses, but it does show the location of roads. It also tells your GIS how far to zoom out to show the full length of your street.
For property locations, you will need one of the AddressBase products.
Need complete addresses?
If your work requires the full postal address, we recommend AddressBase products.
How to get this product
Access to this OS OpenData product is free through the OS Data Hub.
Visualise OS Open Names data online
This product is available to try out online using one of our three sets of sample data (Exeter, Newport and Inverness) through the OS MasterMap Product Viewer:
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