INSPIRE Index Polygons: Freehold Property Locations in England and Wales

INSPIRE Index Polygons is an open source geospatial dataset containing the locations of freehold registered land and property in England and Wales. It is a subset of the HM Land Registry's Index Polygons database, structured to comply with the European INSPIRE Directive. The data is organized into separate files for each local authority area, with polygons on boundaries appearing in multiple files.

Use Cases

• [Land use planning] based on [freehold property location polygons]
• [Regulatory compliance mapping] based on [INSPIRE Directive data structure]
• [Property market analysis] based on [registered title extents]
• [Cross-boundary administrative analysis] based on [polygons duplicated across local authority files]

Strengths

• [Compliance with a major European directive] based on [explicit development to comply with the INSPIRE Directive]
• [Clear and authoritative provenance] based on [source organization HM Land Registry]
• [Open licensing] based on [OGL-UK-3.0 license across multiple platforms]

Limitations

• [Incomplete metadata] based on [unknown column names, row counts, and file sizes across all sources]
• [Potential data duplication] based on [polygons on local authority boundaries appearing in multiple files]
• [Conflicting update information] based on [a future 'last updated' date of 2026-07-08 on uk_data platforms]

Provenance

Source

HM Land Registry

Collection Method

Subset of the official Index Polygons database for registered freehold land and property.

Freshness

2026-07-08 13:32:17.969031

Geography

England and Wales