Scottish water well records
The collection consists of records for c.5000 wells and springs in Scotland mostly lodged by drillers in compliance with the Water Act. These include data on well construction, water yields, water levels, water chemistry and well lithology. The collection is organised on the One-Inch Geological Sheet basis. Catalogues for wells in Central Scotland were published between 1963 and 1969. The BGS Single Onshore Borehole Index (SOBI) provides a partial digital index to the records.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 1870
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Originator
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
-
Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
01491 692345
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford
,
WALLINGFORD
,
OXON
,
OX10 8BB
,
United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
Custodian
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
01491 692345
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford
,
WALLINGFORD
,
OXON
,
OX10 8BB
,
United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
- Maintenance and update frequency
- weekly Weekly
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Water
- Springs
- Geology
- Hydrogeology
- Water wells
- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- dataCentre
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access fees contained in BGS charging policy. Some records are held on a 'commercial-in-confidence' basis.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
- Other constraints
- Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk ) for advice, should the position not be clear.
- Spatial representation type
- textTable Text, table
- Denominator
- 10000
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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SCOTLAND [id=140000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
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SCT
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
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- Begin date
- 1870
- Supplemental Information
- Water Supply Papers of the Geological Survey of Great Britain: Well Catalogue Series - Scotland. (1963-69). Mainly relate to industrial areas of central Scotland.
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Distribution format
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COLLECTION - Collection of well records. Some of the data is held in the Scottish Groundwater Database
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COLLECTION - Collection of well records. Some of the data is held in the Scottish Groundwater Database
()
Distributor
British Geological Survey
-
Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
British Geological Survey
-
Enquiries
01491 692345
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford
,
WALLINGFORD
,
OXON
,
OX10 8BB
,
United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
- OnLine resource
-
BGS Homepage
(
HTTP
)
The BGS Homepage is an entry point to the BGS data services.
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- Original records from drillers reports and field inventory, in process of digitisation.
- File identifier
- 9df8df51-62db-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-11-06
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
+44 131 667 1000
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480138
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
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