Identification

Title
Standard Welsh Place-names
Abstract

The Welsh Language Commissioner has a unique responsibility to advise on the standard forms of Welsh place-names. These recommendations are published in the list of Standard Welsh Place-names on the Commissioner’s website. You can browse this list to get more information about how to pronounce the names and to see images of the places as a result of a partnership with Wikimedia.

The forms published in the Commissioner's list have been standardised by the Commissioner's Place-names Standardisation Panel. The Panel follows national standardisation guidelines in formulating its recommendations: Standardisation of Welsh Place-names.

You will notice that Welsh language names are given priority on this map. You will need to click on the blue dot next to the name in question to get more information about the name and to learn if there is an alternative form to be used in English.

The Commissioner has also developed an API for these names which may be of interest to developers. Please contact the Commissioner directly to discuss further.

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Licence
Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

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Publication date
Type
Spatial data
Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Geography & Technology

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:27700
Extension x0
170056.375
Extension x1
353666.25
Extension y0
166024.484375
Extension y1
394024.6875

Features

Contact

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Language Commissioner
Department
Geography & Technology

References

Link online
/layers/geonode:wg_placenames
Metadata page
/layers/geonode:wg_placenames/metadata_detail

GeoJSON
Standard Welsh Place-names.json
Excel
Standard Welsh Place-names.excel
CSV
Standard Welsh Place-names.csv
GML 3.1.1
Standard Welsh Place-names.gml
GML 2.0
Standard Welsh Place-names.gml
DXF
Standard Welsh Place-names.dxf
OGC Geopackage
Standard Welsh Place-names.gpkg
Zipped Shapefile
Standard Welsh Place-names.zip

OWS endpoints

WMS
/capabilities/layer/7195/?ows_service=wms
WFS
/capabilities/layer/7195/?ows_service=wfs