Web Map Services (WMS)

The datasets below are made available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Services (WMS). They can also be accessed by websites that use a map-based interface to connect to WMS services, allowing data from different providers to be visualised spatially and compared.

Many of these services contribute to BGS complying with the EU INSPIRE directive.

BGS data WMS services

Connect to the WMS data services from the links below:

British geology onshore digital maps 1:50 000 scale
UK onshore and offshore bedrock and superficial geology 1:625 000 scale
Offshore marine information products 1:250 000
Samples of high resolution ground stability data 1:50 000 scale
Soil property data including parent material, soil texture, group, grain size, thickness and European Soil Bureau description.
Advanced Soil Geochemical Atlas of England and Wales 5700 surface soil samples (0-15 cm), analysed for 52 major and trace elements.
TellusSW airborne geophysical dataAirborne geophysical data for the counties of Cornwall and parts of Devon and Somerset
HiRes1 Airborne Magnetic, Radiometric, VLF Survey Airborne geophysical data for North Midlands of England into Welsh Borderland
GeoIndex datasets Over 70 onshore and offshore layers including boreholes, earthquakes, landslides, fossils, hydrogeology, rock samples, geochemistry and geophysics
Domain polygons for normal background concentrations (NBCs) of contaminants in English soils
Radon data: Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain

Terms of use

These data are delivered under the terms of the Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: "Contains British Geological Survey materials © NERC [year]". Contact us if you create something new and innovative that could benefit others digitaldata@bgs.ac.uk