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Welcome to Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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The 1,842,242+ pages of the British Towns and Villages Network are your guide to places to go to in UK Visitor Attractions, what to see in UK Entertainment Centres, what to do in UK Events and with over 8,500 hotels in our Hotel Accommodation section where to stay in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Within the contents you will find links to all the Region, County, City, Town, Villages and Community websites we can find or have been submitted to us and most importantly how to find UK places and how to get there.

National Gazetteers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Information about English towns and villages displayed by County then Borough or District, or by Unitary Authority.

The Scottish cities, towns, villages and island communities displayed by Region, Community Council and Historic County.

The cities, towns and villages of the Welsh Communities displayed by County and County Borough.

Here we display by individual district information about the cities, towns and townlands of Northern Ireland.

The UK National Gazetteer - Find UK Places

 

The weather METARS displayed above are being generated by the British Towns Weather Station in Cambridge from information received via NOAA from official UK weather stations. We are now displaying the current weather conditions at all the major UK International Airports on the pages within this site. The METARS are updated automatically every 30 minutes from our weather station which is part of the St Ives website in Huntingdonshire and the district's four other principle towns being Godmanchester, Huntingdon, St Neots and Ramsey.

 

Latest images of Britain submitted by website users

Some of the trader stalls at St Ives Street Market
St Ives Market
by John Vincent
 
Cricket memorial which stands on the crossroads by Park Lane.This was presented
Slindon Cricket Memorial
by Roger Pagram
 
Pumpkin House display at the Uptons house this is an annual display featuring bu
Pumpkin House Display Slindon
by Roger Pagram
 
Egremont pleasure barge on the canal going towards the footbridge from north sid
Egremont Pleasure Barge Hunston Canal
by Roger Pagram
 
Moored boats on hunston canal showing reflections.Prior to racing.
Moored Boats Hunston Canal
by Roger Pagram
 
Moored boats on hunston canal prior to having a racing event.Taken from landing
Moored boats hunston canal
by Roger Pagram
 
St Georges Church, Pontesbury amid a snowy scene in wintertime.
St Georges in the depths of winter
by Jean Frooms
 
A scenic path through the bluebells on Pontesford hill, Pontesbury.
Bluebell path, Pontesford Hill
by Jean Frooms
 
Whitwell Lane in Pontesbury with the Plough Inn over the bridge
Through the Ford Whitwell Lane, Pontesbury
by Jean Frooms
 
St Georges Church in Pontesbury photographed from Station road with Earls Hill i
St Georges Church, Pontesbury against Earls Hill
by Jean Frooms
 
View of St Richards Roman Catholic Church in the attractive village of Slindon.
St Richards Slindon
by Roger Pagram
 
Annual artistic display of pumkins and gourds at the Uptons House.
Flowers and Pumkins at the Uptons House
by Roger Pagram
 

 

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Latest Site Updates

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22/11/2009

Upgrade Complete

We have now completed the server upgrade and have implemented brand new image upload code that is capable of handling images up to 10Mb in size without the need for the user to edit them first. Images are automatically resized on our servers to the optimum size for display on the website.

We will continue checking the site for any gremlins but if you come across any we would be grateful if you would let us know using the Feedback button at the top of all the pages. 

13/11/2009

Upgrade Status

We have nearly completed the upgrade of the website. There will be some further brief interruptions whilst we continue to improve the code and we are still working on the User Upload systems at the moment.

We hope to be able to effectively remove the image size restriction that is currently in force. Prior to commencing the upgrade users could not upload an image larger than 1Mb which required users to shrink the images prior to attempting to upload them. We found quite a number of users have difficulty with this, therefore the best solution for us was to try to remove the restriction or at least enlarge the limit to allow most normal use.

Initial tests of the new upload systems have gone well and we have successfully uploaded large un-edited 4Mb images. We hope to complete these major works within the next 7 days buit we will always be looking to improve the website and the information and facilities it offers.  

06/11/2009

Major Upgrade in progress

We apologise for the distruption to the site at the moment but we are upgrading the site servers to the latest operating systems to allow us to delevop. During this period some of the facilities will not function until we upgrade the code that makes them work too. Please bear with us, we are working as fast as we can to finish the job.