Historic Address Feature Type data represents local authority addresses that are no longer in existence. This can occur due to property demolition, merging of two properties into one, or splitting a single property into multiple flats. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and aggregated via the eu_open_data platform.
Use Cases
- Analyzing urban change and property lifecycle based on records of demolished addresses.
- Mapping historical administrative boundaries based on defunct local authority addresses.
- Training models for address validation and standardization using examples of obsolete formats.
Strengths
- Data represents a specific, well-defined concept: addresses that are no longer in existence.
- Sourced from an authoritative government body, the Government Digital Service.
Limitations
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Likely United Kingdom, based on the source organization.