GBR BGS Borehole records

This layer of the Map based index (GeoIndex) shows the location of records of boreholes, shafts and wells from all forms of drilling and site investigation work. Some 850,000 records dating back over 200 years and ranging from one to several thousand metres deep. Currently some 50,000 new records are being added to the collection each year. The dataset available via the GeoIndex is a snapshot, taken at a particular date, of the Single Onshore Borehole Index. Although the GeoIndex is updated at regular intervals more information may be available than is shown.

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Date (Revision): 2022-04-08T08:20:10

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Garry Baker	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Theme

Boreholes
GeoIndex
Borehole records
OneGeology
continent@Europe
subcontinent@Northern Europe
geographicarea@United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
dataprovider@British Geological Survey
serviceprovider@British Geological Survey
DS_TOPIC@geoscientificinformation
DS_DATE@2022
thematic@Borehole
thematic@Exploration

Denominator: 164419.642857

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Reference system identifier: CRS:84

Reference system identifier: EPSG:4326

Reference system identifier: EPSG:4258

Reference system identifier: EPSG:27700

Reference system identifier: EPSG:3857

Distribution format

Name	Version

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map	https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Onshore/boreholes/MapServer/WmsServer?	Borehole.records
application/xml	https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?SERVICE=CSW&REQUEST=GetRecordById&ID=9df8df53-2a71-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98&elementSetName=full&OutputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&version=2.0.2&	Borehole.records (MetadataURL)
image/png	https://map.bgs.ac.uk/BGS_WMS/legends/geoindex/bh.png	Borehole records (LegendURL)