Last updated 2 October 2026. The search box on our home page suggests places and vet practices as you type. This page says where those lists come from and the licences they are shared under. Both lists run in your browser: nothing you type into them is sent to us or anyone else.
Vet practices
The list of UK vet practices (vets.json) is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. It combines:
- OpenStreetMap: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL.
- Overture Maps Foundation places (release 2026-09-23.1), including data from Meta, Microsoft, PinMeTo and DAC, available under the Community Data License Agreement – Permissive 2.0; data from Foursquare, © 2026 Foursquare Labs, Inc., all rights reserved, available under the Apache License 2.0 (see Foursquare’s notice); and data from AllThePlaces, available under CC0 1.0.
- Practices we checked ourselves on each practice’s own website, where the open data missed them.
What we changed: we kept only UK vet practices, removed places that are not vet practices, merged entries for the same practice from different sources, tidied names and street addresses, and checked postcodes. The town shown is the Royal Mail post town of the practice’s postcode. We did not use the RCVS register.
Postcodes were checked with postcodes.io. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
A practice missing, closed or wrong? Tell us at contact@scruffsy.com and we’ll fix it.
Postcodes and towns
The list of postcode districts and their post towns (postcodes.json) is built from Wikipedia’s List of postcode districts in the United Kingdom, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. We replaced the old postal counties with today’s counties, and chose a main town for districts that several towns share. Our version is shared under the same licence.