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About Allotment Atlas
Allotment Atlas is an independent directory created by Tony Smith, alongside GrowMore CookMore, to help people find places to grow across the UK and Ireland. It is free to use, with no adverts or account required.
Explore a map, look more closely with satellite imagery, save a shortlist and follow published contact routes. The allotment application guide helps you work out what to ask next. Atlas does not run the listed sites or allocate plots.
What the catalogue covers
The public source snapshot is dated and retains 17,248 source-linked directory records across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. A subsequent identity review in the same dated catalogue combines 67 confirmed groups, removing 94 duplicate display listings and leaving 17,154 displayed records.
These figures describe the compilation. They are not a verified count of unique, currently operating allotment sites. Separate map parcels can describe parts of the same place, and unresolved possible duplicates remain. Some records describe community growing spaces rather than individually rented plots.
Coverage is incomplete. Private, informal, new and unmapped sites may be missing. Great Britain has an OS Open Greenspace baseline; Ireland and Northern Ireland do not have that same baseline in this compilation, so record totals should not be used to compare provision between countries.
What a listing tells you
Published listing and mapped growing area describe the evidence behind a record. An official source can show that a council listed a location; it does not prove that the council operates it. Geographic council assignments describe location, rather than ownership or management.
Names, coordinates and practical details come from the linked sources. Missing information stays unknown. Where a mapped area has no recorded name, a nearby-place label is descriptive and should not be mistaken for an official site name.
A site contact route is distinguished from an area enquiry service. The latter may help you find the manager, but is not claimed to manage every site in its area. A source check date records when evidence was reviewed; it does not guarantee that a contact will reply.
Where the information comes from
Allotment Atlas is an independent directory. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or authorised to represent any government, council or political entity.
View the complete source directory and official references, including council datasets, area enquiry routes, site information and application guidance.
- Ordnance Survey OS Open Greenspace: April 2026 mapped allotment or community-growing areas in Great Britain. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026; Open Government Licence v3.0.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: mapped features, names and available fact observations, with recorded extraction dates and ODbL attribution.
- ONS local-authority boundaries: geographical council enrichment, rather than evidence of management. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Published council datasets, service pages and operator websites: individually linked directory and application references. The source ledger records the particular providers, dates and rights.
- GeoNames contributors: the separate town and village search index, licensed under CC BY 4.0. A place-name index is not an allotment census.
- Individual site photographs: each retains its source, photographer credit and stated licence in the photograph credits and profile metadata.
The adapted database is provided under the Open Database Licence v1.0, with source-specific rights retained. A link to a council or operator page does not grant a licence to reproduce that page.
You can inspect the original record snapshot, methodology and source ledger, reviewed site identities, data licences and snapshot provenance notice. Some original research working files were not included in the public snapshot; the provenance notice explains that limit.
Help improve a listing
If a site is missing, use Add a site on the Atlas map. For an existing record, open its details and choose Add information. Include the site name, location, what needs changing and a public source URL where possible. A source date or the date you checked it helps distinguish a current update from older information.
Suggestions and photograph submissions enter a review queue and are not published automatically. Approved photographs and their optional captions are public. Please avoid private information about plot holders, and send only photographs you are entitled to share. Our contribution guidelines explain what is suitable.
For support or a removal request, email contact@tonycsmith.com. Where possible, include the listing's share link or record ID so the right observation can be checked.
Your shortlist and privacy
Your saved places and private application notes stay on your device or in your browser. Location is optional. Online map, search and contribution services need the requests that make those features work. The website uses cookieless PostHog page-visit analytics; it does not send your searches, precise location, shortlist or notes to analytics. See the privacy policy for the details.
Ready to find somewhere to grow? Browse the directory or explore the map.