UK Bank & Building Society Locations
Bank & Building Society locations across the UK. A reliable, openly available resource that gives users the ability to integrate this data into their work.
What are Banking Retail Points?
Bank and building society branches across the UK provide vital services and are often thought of as key ‘anchor’ services for the area they serve. In a similar vein to the Grocery Retail Points we release as open data, Banking Retail Points offer locations for major bank and building society operators across the UK.
Geolytix works on many projects that start with the foundations being bank branch locations, anyone working with data of any kind knows that the results of any processes can only be as good as the quality of data going in in the first instance. Banking Retail Points is a database of bank and building society branches which have been attributed with store name, address including postcode, Geolytix proprietary suburbs and towns, latitude and longitude, a close date where the branch is now permanently shut, and a distance to the nearest currently trading Post Office. There is no commercial sensitive data included and the data is fully open therefore you can use it in any way you like.
How do we track?
Current branch information is available and online for everyone to access, and closures have been a matter of public record due to the need to publicly consult on any closure, but these data are not collated into a single open database.
First released in September 2021, from the next update we will update every 6 months to capture branch openings and closures that have occurred between releases. Part of the attraction of this product is that it does not contain commercially sensitive attributes but provides a complete source of publicly available information.
Where can I access the data?
You can download the latest version from here* with an accompanying user guide. Geolytix release bank and building society locations across the UK, a reliable, openly available resource that gives businesses, researchers, developers, and public organisations the ability to integrate this data into their work.
*This link will always have the latest version of data, even if updated after the publications date of this blog.
We love seeing and hearing about how the data is being used so please do tag us on LinkedIn: @geolytix or email us at info@geolytix.com.
Louise Cross, Product Owner at GEOLYTIX
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