Published October 19, 2026 | Version 20261018
Dataset Open

5.7M British Companies from Official Registry

Authors/Creators

  • 1. companies.directory

Description

5.7M British Companies from Official Registry

5,704,711 United Kingdom companies, one file.

Part of the companies.directory database of 300M+ companies worldwide.
Platform snapshots are refreshed quarterly; the companies.directory app &
API are refreshed monthly — usually fresher than this file.
Records5,704,711
CountryUnited Kingdom (GB)
FormatCSV, UTF-8, gzip-compressed
Columns12 (basic fields)
Snapshot2026-10-18
Next snapshot2027-01-01 (quarterly)

Links

  • Browse on companies.directory — https://companies.directory/united-kingdom
  • API documentation — https://companies.directory/docs

    • Files

  • gb-companies-official.csv.gz — 5,704,711 rows, 378.6 MB

    • Columns

    ColumnDescription
    company_idStable SHA-1 identifier for the company (per source).
    source_idCatalog id of the originating official register (e.g. de, us-ny).
    reg_number_rawRegistration / registry number exactly as published.
    legal_name_normUpper-cased, whitespace-normalized legal name for matching.
    legal_formLegal form exactly as published (e.g. GmbH, Osaühing, S.A.).
    statusRegistration status as published by the register.
    incorporation_dateIncorporation / registration date (ISO 8601).
    addr_streetStreet address.
    addr_cityCity / town.
    addr_zipPostal code.
    addr_regionRegion / state / province.
    addr_countryISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country of the address.

    More fields on companies.directory

    This file carries the basic registry fields. The full record on

    companies.directory additionally has, where the register publishes

    them — with standardized, human-friendly values:

    Example fieldIn the full record
    Industryisic_rev5_code = 4312 → human-readable label "Site preparation activities"
    Legal formlegal_form = GmbH / Osaühing → standardized English "Private limited liability company"
    Registration numberreg_number_raw = Hamburg HRB 150148 → normalized reg_number_norm = HRB150148
    Statusregister-specific status text → standardized active / inactive / dissolved

    Plus raw + trade names, officers & directors, revenue, employee counts,

    coordinates, website, email and phone. Browse https://companies.directory or use the API (docs).

    Provenance / sources

    SourceRecordsLast updateCadenceNext updateAccessLicenseOfficial source
    Companies House5,704,7112026-10-18monthly2026-11-17openOpen Government Licence v3.0link

    What you can build

    Company search and lookups · KYC / KYB & onboarding · sales and lead

    enrichment · market and industry research · risk and credit signals ·

    entity-resolution and deduplication · academic and economic research.

    Go beyond a single country

    This file is one slice of the companies.directory global company database.

  • 300M+ companies in one place. Every country we cover, normalized to one

    • schema — not 50 incompatible register exports.

  • API access. Query, filter and enrich programmatically over the full

    • database (name, registration number, country, city, industry, status and

    more). Start at https://companies.directory/docs.

  • Additional fields not in this file. Where a source publishes them:

    • normalized registration numbers, trade names, standardized legal form and

    status, industry codes (ISIC Rev. 5), officers & directors, revenue,

    employee counts, geocoding, websites, emails and phones — see

    companies.directory.

  • Bulk download. The complete multi-country dataset is available as a

    • single bulk download.

  • Dedicated infrastructure. A hosted, indexed PostgreSQL deployment with

    • sub-second search across hundreds of millions of rows.

    Commercial use, volume licensing and custom extracts: luka@companies.directory.

    Update schedule

  • This platform snapshot — refreshed quarterly, on the 1st of

    • January, April, July and October. Generated 2026-10-19; next snapshot

    2027-01-01.

  • companies.directory (app & API) — refreshed monthly, usually

    • fresher than this file: https://companies.directory/united-kingdom

    Citation

    @misc{companies_directory_gb_20261018,
  title  = {5.7M British Companies from Official Registry},
  author = {companies.directory},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Snapshot of the companies.directory database},
  url    = {https://companies.directory/united-kingdom}
}

    License & attribution

    The processed, standardized compilation is published by

    companies.directory under CC BY 4.0; the upstream sources keep their own licenses.

    These attributions and licenses must be preserved unchanged in any further use or redistribution of this data:

    Data attribution:

  • Trade registry data — derived from the official company trade registries of United Kingdom. Per-register attribution, license and access terms: companies.directory/sources.

    • Questions or commercial licensing: luka@companies.directory

    Notes

    Automated quarterly snapshot. Release 20261018. Browse & API: https://companies.directory/united-kingdom

    Files

    Files (397.0 MB)

    Name Size
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    		397.0 MB Download

    Additional details

    Related works

    Is documented by
    https://companies.directory/docs (URL)
    Is supplement to
    https://companies.directory/united-kingdom (URL)