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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

21 today! Happy Birthday to us! Amazing that the website pre-dates Streetview and iPhones. Now 8.2 million geolocated and CC-licensed photos of UK + Ireland. Covering >98% of OS 1km squares in GB, with thousands added every week as people record and share their places and travels www.geograph.org.uk

The first (non-testing) image loaded onto the site, 21 years ago today, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

An ancient landscape of early copper mines & Romano-British roundhouses 🛖⛰️ Cwm Dyli below Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon, Gwynedd 📷 My own, Sunday

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Three of twenty new squares added this week in the Outer Hebrides. Great to see more wild areas getting recorded www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i... www.geograph.org.uk/profile/3729

Loch Dubh Cnoc na File, North Uist
According to the OS Name Book of 1876-1878, Loch Dubh Cnoc na File means Black Loch of the Fiddle Knoll, although the word "file" is translated as poet or bard, rather than fiddle, in various Gaelic dictionaries.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8087307

Sheep dip and pens by Loch Bì, South Uist
The OS six-inch 1st edition map, surveyed in 1878, shows a roofed building here.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8085125

Rock, Beinn Bheag, South Uist
Looking towards Loch Baghasdail and the hills Beinn Ruigh Choinnich and Triuirebheinn.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8085171

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Another 10km square completed, NG91 in northwest Scotland. Still other gaps to fill by those who get into the wilds www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i...

NG91 photo mosaic, one photo per 1km OS square (more are very welcome) https://www.geograph.org.uk/maplarge.php?t=tolJ5ojXXJ0ojXJFojXXJfoVubJqojNXJL5405o8jMuVaXajM4lVa8a

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Another milestone* reached, with 8 million photos now available on the site, all geolocated and CC-licensed from Great Britain and Ireland. A great record of our diverse islands. More photos always welcome! *statistical milestone, we have tens of thousands of photos of actual milestones

The Red Lion on Gloucester Street, Oxford. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8034936 This may be the milestone image, if not it's close to it

Stats page, https://www.geograph.org.uk/numbers.php showing the image counter past eight million
The number of squares photographed in the last 5 years is currently rising rapidly, as 5 years ago was lockdown. All additional photos welcome!

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Another 10km square completed, NN16, south of Fort William www.geograph.org.uk/mapper/?lat=...

Allt Coire a' Mhail, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8023815

Hanging valley above Steall, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8023811

NN16 map, with at least one photo per 1km square, taken from within the square (more photos always welcome!)

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Another 10km square completed, NC34 in northwest Scotland. Great to see remote areas getting more coverage. www.geograph.org.uk/mapper/?lat=...

Corrie lochan below Sàbhal Beag https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8014841

Un-named tributary of Allt Beith a' Mheadhoin https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8014830

NC34 OS map, with at least one photo per 1km square. More photos always welcome

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Eroding cliffs at Sewerby. Image number 8,000,000 for the site and an excellent record of change, and geography in action www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8000000

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our first photo, submitted 20 years ago today. Now over 7,950,000 photos of Britain and Ireland on the site - where will our eight millionth be? www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4

Woodchester Mansion, the first photo uploaded to the site (barring three test images)

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Anthony Goreham @argoreham.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Farthing Street, Downe, Bromley, #London 📷 #LoveLondonWalkLondon #LondonLoop

Photo showing farm fields, with a hill rolling down in front of us and trees lining the distant horizon. The time is early spring, so the trees are still without leaves, and the fields are without crops, having only short grass interspersed with dirt. Birds are either landing or taking off from the field to our left. It’s a cloudy day but fairly bright.

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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

For the new month, here's a March image from one of my @geograph-gbi.bsky.social calendars, taken on this day five years ago: Looking North at Minsmere Haven. www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7294441

A view north along a curving coastline, in a slanting winter afternoon light. On the left are low dunes, on which the photographer is standing; occasional World War II anti-tank defences, in the form of concrete cubes, jut out at angles. On the right of the picture the shadows of the dunes cover the beach, then beyond that the sea, coloured slightly purple by the setting sun. A young man with red curly hair, wearing a duffle coat, is standing not far from the photographer, looking away up the coast; other figures are dotted along the beach at various intervals.

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Three recently submitted photos, typical of the winter so far. Over 10,000 photos submitted already this year, as we rapidly approach our 8 millionth photo in the archive

Aysgarth Upper Falls in the snow, SE0088

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

2024 in numbers: 268,748 photos submitted (bringing total to 7,915,829) by 622 contributors, covering 84,497 grid squares. Still more areas without photos in Ireland and the wilds of Scotland, and many more details and changes to record where we do have photos. 2025 will bring our 20th birthday!

A wind turbine blade moving through Hawick, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7716666

The new Barmouth Bridge over the Afon Mawddach, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7873266

Table Hill and North Hill, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7946022

West Portal of Chalamain Gap, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7884423

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Lizziwake @lizziwake.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Walking round the local vineyards. This one was first planted in 2017. It still seems odd to see them in the English landscape.

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Photos quickly go from relatively mundane to important records of times past. We try to collect such photos and tell the story of our amazingly diverse islands, from pubs to seafronts to mountaintops and everything in between. All contributions welcome

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Another 10km square completed, NB03 on Lewis with a photo of a ruined shieling www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7933626

NB03 photo mosaic, Isle of Lewis. We now have at least one photo of every 1km grid square with land, taken from within the grid square

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Where don't we have photos? In England and Wales it is mostly mudflats, islets and MOD land, in Scotland there are still gaps - good targets if you want to get somewhere rarely visited. 3359 squares left out of 244,324. Lots of areas still without photos in Ireland. www.geograph.org.uk/mapper/

Granite slab on tributary of Allt Coire Ruairidh, Cairngorms

Area in Cairngorm National Park without photos

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Things change, even landscapes we think of as fixed. Recording how things are, and what they become is important

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We get about 5000 photos submitted each week, these are selection of some of the recently taken ones.

Class 66s in Newport, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7924045

Entrance to Central Park tram station, Manchester. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7924188

Ribblehead Viaduct, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7922077

Shore defences, Wirral, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7922702

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Ben Dolphin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️⛰🌲 @countrysideben.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

After several subzero days and a low of -11C, the Dee and the Lui are icing over nicely at Mar Lodge Estate. It is, however, VERY low water as it hasn't rained in earnest for a month!

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Phoebe Taplin @phoebetaplin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Roe deer and autumn trees in Weald Country Park, Essex

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The website has been running for almost 20 years, and has many archive photos uploaded from before that. Some things stay much the same, others come and go. We're building an archive of all of it, and having fun exploring our islands along the way

Not everything lasts, what is normal now will soon be a memory

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Geograph Great Britain & Ireland @geograph-gbi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

To introduce ourselves here, we are a website collecting geographically interesting photos of Britain and Ireland, all geolocated and CC licensed for reuse. Still some grid squares with no photos, others with many, recording different details and changes over seasons and years. www.geograph.org.uk

Photos per square on Geograph for the area around Scafell Pike, Lake District

A recent submission to Geograph from grid square NH0168, Western Scotland

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