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Borough
The term 'borough' occurs in several contexts. Many English districts are described as 'boroughs'; there are also county boroughs in Wales, borough constituencies and the London boroughs. The unifying factor is that 'borough' always refers to an area that is substantially urbanised.

Boundary Commission for England (BCE)
The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) is responsible for reviewing English parliamentary constituency boundaries.
BCE website: Further information.

Boundary Commission for Scotland
The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviewing Scottish parliamentary constituency boundaries.
Boundary Commission for Scotland website: Further information.

Boundary Commission for Wales (BCW)
The Boundary Commission for Wales is responsible for reviewing Welsh parliamentary constituency boundaries.
BCW website: Further information.

Boundary Committee for England (BCFE)
The Boundary Committee for England (BCFE) is responsible for reviewing local government boundaries and arrangements in England.
BCFE website: Further information.

Boundary-LineTM
Boundary-LineTM is an Ordnance Survey product containing digital boundaries for administrative and electoral areas.
Ordnance Survey website: Further information.

British Isles
The British Isles are the islands of North-Western Europe comprising all of the United Kingdom, the Irish Republic, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

British National Grid
The British National Grid is a common referencing format for all geographic data in Great Britain. The result is that any location can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0,0), which lies to the west of the Scilly Isles. Grid references are always presented in terms of eastings (distance east from the origin) and northings (distance north from the origin). Within a Geographic Information System (GIS), British National Grid references are usually stored at 1-metre resolution - eg 271384, 096572 indicates a point 271km, 384m east and 96km, 572m north of the origin.
Note: British National Grid references are not used in Northern Ireland, which, along with Eire (the Irish Republic), is covered by the Irish National Grid.

Buffering
Buffering is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) term describing the creation of a zone of specified width around any feature - eg a zone of 1km radius around a doctor's surgery.

Business Link Area
Business Link is a business advice service for England, and operates via 45 local offices each covering an area based on local authority geography.

This page last revised: Tuesday, 26 August 2003