About
About the Albion Guide
The Albion Guide is a map-first guide to the best of Great Britain’s natural world — national parks and lonely fells, chalk ridgeways and drowned valleys, castles, coast and country pubs — gathered from open data onto one browsable map, with a page for every place.
How places get here
Most of the map is built from open government and heritage data: Natural England, Natural Resources Wales and NatureScot for the protected landscapes and nature reserves; Historic England, Cadw and Historic Environment Scotland for the castles, abbeys, monuments and Roman remains; the Ordnance Survey trig archive and the Database of British and Irish Hills for the summits; the Environment Agency for bathing-water quality; and OpenStreetMap for trails and waterways. Every place carries a link back to the register it came from.
On top of that sits a curated layer — villages, pubs, churches, beaches, gardens and the single notable sights no official dataset names — chosen and written up by hand. The aim is a generous guide: somewhere worth the walk gets a place, even when it sits just outside the official lists.
Write-ups, photos and honesty
Thousands of places have a hand-written description; many more carry a short generated summary drawn from the facts held about them. Photos come from openly licensed sources — Geograph, Wikimedia, and professional libraries — always credited, never scraped. Where the right of public access to a place is clear it says so; where it isn't, it says that too, rather than guessing.
How current the data is
Each place page shows the date its source data was retrieved, underAt a glance. Open registers change over time — a bathing-water verdict, a reserve boundary, a monument's condition — so treat the page as a starting point and check the linked source for anything you are relying on. The full list of datasets and their licences is on thesources & attribution page.
Spotted a mistake?
Corrections are welcome — a pin in the wrong field, an access note that's out of date, a place that shouldn't be here. Every place links to the official record it was built from, which is the quickest way to check the original, and thesources page lists who publishes each dataset. Every place page also has a Report a problem link that starts an email with the place already named.
Contact
For corrections, suggestions, photo credits or anything else, email hello@albionguide.com.
The data is open
The Albion Guide is made with open data and stands on the organisations that gather and publish it. Per-place source, licence and retrieval date are recorded throughout, and the OpenStreetMap layers stay under their ODbL attribution.