Terms & Conditions
Last updated: 22 August 2026
Who we are
London Pavement Geology is an unincorporated volunteer project recording the building stones of Britain. By using this site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site. Questions go to [email protected].
Using our content
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in this site and in the material published on it, and those works are protected by copyright. All such rights are reserved.
You may print one copy and download extracts of any page for your personal use, and you may draw the site to the attention of others in your organisation. Teachers and lecturers are welcome to use it with a class.
You must not alter copies of anything you print or download, and you must not use any illustration, photograph or graphic separately from the text that accompanies it. Our status as authors, and that of any named contributor, must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of this site commercially without a licence from us. Ask — for anything in the spirit of the project the answer is usually yes.
If you submit a location
This is a crowdsourced record and we are glad of contributions. When you submit a location, photographs or other material:
- You keep the copyright. It stays yours.
- You give us a licence to use it. You grant London Pavement Geology a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to publish, store, copy and adapt what you send, on this site and in material about the project, including any future edition or successor to the site.
- We credit you. Your submission is published with your name against it. Tell us if you would rather be credited differently, or not at all.
- You confirm it is yours to give. By submitting, you confirm the photographs are your own work, or that you have the owner’s permission, and that publishing them will not infringe anyone’s rights or breach anyone’s privacy.
- We may edit or decline it. Every submission is checked against the record before publication. We may correct an identification, edit the wording, or decide not to publish. We are not able to publish everything.
If you have submitted something and want it changed or taken down, email us and we will sort it out. See our Privacy Policy for what happens to your name and email address.
Respect for property and safety
Almost everything recorded here is visible from a public street. Nothing on this site is an invitation to enter private property, to touch, sample, chip or otherwise damage any building or monument, or to obstruct a pavement while you look at it. Please behave as you would want someone to behave outside your own front door.
Accuracy
Identifying building stone is a matter of trained judgement, not certainty. The identifications here are made in good faith and to a high standard, but they are opinions, and occasionally they will be wrong. Do not rely on this site for anything where being wrong would matter — a valuation, a conservation decision, a specification, a piece of formal research — without checking it independently. If you spot a mistake, please tell us; corrections are welcome and get made.
Our liability
The site is provided free and as it is. To the extent the law allows, we exclude liability for any loss arising from your use of it, from anything you rely on it for, or from it being unavailable. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud, or anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
We do not guarantee the site will always be available or free of errors, and we may change or withdraw any part of it.
Links to other sites
Where we link to other websites we do so because we think they are useful. We have no control over them and are not responsible for their content.
Changes to these terms
We may revise these terms. The version on this page is the one that applies, and the date at the top tells you when it last changed.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute.