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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Header}} Script error: No such module "Shortcut". Welcome to the United Kingdom Geography WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the Geography of the United Kingdom.

Although our remit is broad, extending from the climate to infrastructure through to the geology and local government in the United Kingdom, we are most closely involved with facilitating the development of Britain's settlements and divisions of land, and ensuring a consistent approach is taken across the United Kingdom's geography class articles.

WikiProject UK Geography is the mother WikiProject of many British local Wikiprojects, and thus is here to co-ordinate and centralise the sharing of ideas and guidelines, developing writing standards, infoboxes, and other data presentation formats, and for setting up collaborations with the goal of reaching featured status for important UK places and geographical articles. Don't be put off by the word "geography", it just means writing about your local area!

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File:UK-icon.png Aims

Many of WikiProject UK Geography's daughter projects have identified their own objectives and key articles to develop towards the featured article standard, which this project wholly supports and encourages. However, this project also aims to facilitate the development of a number of key articles related to the overall geography of the United Kingdom:

Short term

Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following:

Mid term

Our mid-term aims for the project are:

Long term

Our long term aims for the project are:
  • Improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with the geography of the United Kingdom, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, etc. etc.
  • All relevant articles should be included in the Category:United Kingdom or one of its subcategories.
  • Articles on all UK subdivisions, settlements, and other notable geographical features.

To-do list

To add this to-do list to your userpage use: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography/todo}} {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography/todo}}

File:UK-icon.png Guidelines

Guidelines at WikiProject UK Geography are a key element of how the project operates; they ensure that the UK's articles have a consistent House Style and provide a lasting consistency for our readers to benefit from. Working in partnership with "international" WikiProjects, UK Geography has developed the following Project guidelines which indicate standardised, consensual recommended approaches when writing about certain aspects of Britain's geography. They each include tips on obtaining the highest of awards for articles:

File:UK-icon.png Embedded Audio Pronunciations

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A new sub-project has been set up to complement the work done within WP:UKGEO. Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Embedded Audio Pronunciations seeks to provide a comprehensive, high-quality range of audio files consisting of native British English pronunciations of relevant words and names: counties, settlements, rivers, mountains and so on. Ideally, both "Received Pronunciation" and local accent variations would be provided, and a repository of public-domain or GFDL-licensed files built up for the benefit of anybody interested in the UK and the English language. In particular, every file provided would ideally be linked to the relevant Wikipedia article. More information and guidelines are provided at this page.

File:UK-icon.png Templates

For templates used for the administration and organisation of the Project and its remit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Templates.

File:UK-icon.png Assessment and progress of articles

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The project has categorised articles according to the WP 1.0 criteria:

  • Featured Articles: need little or no work.
  • 'A' class: need a very small amount of work, followed by FA nomination.
  • Good Articles: a little more work required.
  • 'B' class: getting there - overall structure in place, but more work needed on the detail, more references etc
  • 'C' class: starting to come together but may still lack a major section, significant referencing etc
  • Start class: short, lacks details, key facts, illustration, etc.
  • Stub class: very short, lacking important details.
  • There is a list of very short "stub" articles here.

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File:UK-icon.png Useful tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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File:UK-icon.png Resources

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England
Bedfordshire Bedfordshire facts & figures
· Luton
Berkshire West Berkshire 2001 Census data
Bristol Ward finder
Buckinghamshire
· Milton Keynes
Cambridgeshire
· Peterborough 2001 Census Profile of Peterborough Cambridgeshire County Council, June 2003
Cheshire *George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 1 2 3, (1819) (Historical & census)
· Halton
· Warrington
Cornwall Parish population data
· Isles of Scilly
Cumbria Census 2001
Derbyshire
· Derby
Devon See the Devon WikiProject list of resources.
· Plymouth
· Torbay
Dorset Parish population data (import should be complete)
· Bournemouth
· Poole
County Durham Durham County Council 2001 Census data
· Darlington
· Hartlepool
· Stockton-on-Tees
East Riding of Yorkshire
· Kingston-upon-Hull
East Sussex
· Brighton and Hove
Essex Epping Forest census data (includes 1961-2001)
· Southend-on-Sea
· Thurrock
Gloucestershire
· South Gloucestershire
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Hampshire 2001 census
· Southampton
· Portsmouth
Herefordshire 2001 census Population and demographics Excel sheet of Parish population histories
Hertfordshire Population and census data
Isle of Wight
Kent 2001 Census Area Profiles
· Medway
Lancashire
· Blackburn with Darwen
· Blackpool
Leicestershire Census 2001
· Leicester
Lincolnshire Parish population profiles
· North Lincolnshire
· North East Lincolnshire
Merseyside
Norfolk Census population (Excel speadsheet) South Norfolk: parish data and ward data Links to parish websites in Breckland Breckland further data
North Yorkshire
· York
· Middlesbrough
· Redcar and Cleveland
· Stockton-on-Tees
· Northamptonshire
Northumberland Tynedale population data (PDF)
Nottinghamshire
· Nottingham
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
· Telford and Wrekin
Somerset Parish population data
· Bath and North East Somerset Census Data
· North Somerset Census Information
South Yorkshire
Staffordshire Local government history
· Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk
Surrey
Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire
West Midlands
West Sussex Ward profiles
West Yorkshire
Wiltshire Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council giving brief historical information and references for settlements including old maps and Population by community 1801–2001 census data
· Swindon Population by community 1801–2001 census data at Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council
Worcestershire

File:UK-icon.png Participants

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You don't need to be British to help with this WikiProject. We welcome all registered editors good with layout and prose, and non-British editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article.

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To add your name to the table, please visit the participants page.

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File:UK-icon.png Recognised content

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Featured articles

Former featured articles

Featured lists

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

Featured pictures

In the News articles

Main page featured articles

Main page featured lists

Picture of the day pictures

Former featured topics

Good topics

Featured pictures

Architecture

Interiors

Landscapes

Panoramas

File:Palace of Westminster, London - Feb 2007.jpg
Palace of Westminster , by Diliff
File:Second Severn Crossing pano 2 s.jpg
Second Severn Crossing, by Yummifruitbat
File:Eden Project geodesic domes panorama.jpg
Eden Project, by Jürgen Matern
File:London Thames Sunset panorama - Feb 2008.jpg
Tower Bridge, by Diliff
File:Cabot Square, Canary Wharf - June 2008.jpg
Canary Wharf, by Diliff
File:Joss Bay, Broadstairs, England - Aug 2008.jpg
Joss Bay Beach in Kent, England, by Diliff
File:Richmond Riverside, London - Sept 2008.jpg
Thames Riverfront in Richmond, London, by Diliff
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Kingswear, Devon as seen from Dartmouth, by Herbythyme
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Dartmoor tors in snow, by Herbythyme

Urban

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