The Great Free Info Hunt

charlieheard

I like Neighbourhood Statistics (which I have just found listed above - ARGGH!) which lists all sorts of (?useless) details from the census, and graphs them against your local area and nationally. How many people in your area have "good health" and how many are married?

MSE_Martin wrote:

What did the other houses in your street sell for? Nethouseprices

Just had a quick look here and was very disappointed. I live out in the sticks in a group of 5 houses all converted at the same time around 2000, together with about 5 other, older houses, all in the same postcode.

When I checked the site, it only had one sale in 2000 for my postcode, one of the converted 5. There are no details of the other conversion sales, or of one of the other, older house that sold last year

Was this the one mentioned on Radio 4 this morning, where they announced the "nosiest" town was somewhere in Surrey (I seem to remember)? They looked at the number of lookups by area, and this town had the highest number.

bardsleyh

There are lots of free maps sites but the new Google one http://maps.google.co.uk (still Beta testing at the moment) allows you to move in all directions continuously by holding down the left mouse button and dragging. You can focus in and out of an area/town in UK, USA and Canada (more countries to be added). Also ties in with Yellow pages so type in 'Chinese' when you're in a town and it will give you all the Chinese restaurants in the area. It's a winner as far as I'm concerned.

adymitchell

Great simple weather site especially for wind strength.
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

Great for finding postcodes or the address from a postcode (need to register)
https://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder?pageId=pol_login&catId=400145&_requestid=16359&cs=1

Lots of converters (measurments, etc.)
http://convertalot.com/index.html

Advice on all issues for buying and warranties
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/

Finally, a worldwide events database.
http://www.whatsonwhen.com/

Hope they're useful!

pmd

A few favourite free info sources:

SCOOT film finder - where to find a film near you:
http://www.scoot.co.uk/cinemafinder/default.asp

Internet Movie Data Base - encyclopedia about films old and new
http://uk.imdb.com

The Man in Seat Sixty-One - International rail travel info, fares, timetables, routes
http://www.seat61.com/

UK Universities and Colleges - clickable map with links to them all
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/uk.map.html

UK Politics - lists and links galore from Univ of Keele Politics dept
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk.htm

Cheers, Pam

pmd

A few more useful free info sources:

International telephone directories:
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/

Long distance paths - compendium of info and links from Ramblers Assoc
http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/index.html

Ordnance Survey - free downloadable maps at different scales (streetmap, 1:50,000, etc)
http://www.ordnancesurvey.gov.uk/

GENUKI: The number one starting point for Genealogy in the UK & Ireland, resources arranged by country / county / parish
http://www.genuki.org.uk/

CINDISLIST: US-oriented directory of 1/4 million genealogy resources:
http://www.cyndislist.com/

Be a blood donor: all the info you need to know whether you're able to give blood, and post-code search for your nearest forthcoming sessions: "DO something amazing today"
http://www.blood.co.uk/

Cheers, Pam

Judge

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ - This is a project to make available online the full texts of all out of copyright books.

http://www.onelook.com/ - searches lots of dictionaries in one go, including specialist dictionaries for science, medicine, literature, etc.

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ - Flags of the World - for the vexillologist you never knew you were.

http://www.tonykempster.btinternet.co.uk/ - the home of non-league football

http://www.oddschecker.com/ - fancy a flutter? get the best prices here.

http://www.fancyapint.com/ - for London pubs
http://www.beerintheevening.com/ - for pubs anywhere

http://www.radiotimes.com/ - all the tv channels, including cable & satellite, for the next 14 days.

Judge

excited_money_saver

Every local authority has one. Find yours through www.childcarelink.gov.uk. Information on childcare & family support services. Phone/e-mail for further detailed advice on childcare, careers in childcare and any child related issues.

And yes I do work for one!

Smiley_Mum

Information on Domain name owners, reselling etc - http://www.allwhois.com/

Info on House price movement within the UK, House Price Index - http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/housingresearch.asp

Information for planning a journey by bus, coach or train UK wide - http://www.pti.org.uk/

Restaurant advisory and reservation service, London/Kent area - http://www.restaurant-services.co.uk/index.php?menu=2&par=1,10,0,2,1,1

Smiley_Mum

Came across this site, did a check and I don't think it has been posted already

Which budget airlines fly into and out of the UK, also info on hotels, car hire etc - http://www.attitudetravel.com/uklowcostairlines.html

Car hire information nationwide - http://www.somucheasier.co.uk/car-hire.html

Mary_Hartnell

confused.com is useful for listing insurance companies and getting lots of quotes.

I've been with the annoying red kiddies 'phone company for donkeys' years, almost since it started. After checking with confused.com the cheapest quote was with the nodding dog company. So I phoned the red telephone call centre and they managed to match it (all but a fiver - better the devil you know ?).

By the way, if you can almost remember one of these useful web addresses go to advanced google - set the where-to-look box to URL (uniform resource locator) and poke about until you find it. This can be quicker than keying in the full address at the top of your Internet Explorer screen anyway.

Good hunting,

Mary