Gazetteer Of British Place Names

[furrypusscat]

I am having trouble opening this page as Firefox is saying the address is unsafe and won't allow access. I am not sure if Firefox has been updated to a newer version or whether it is in fact the Gazetteer which is the problem. Can I ask someone to open the Gazetteer to see if you have the same problem. As you know I use this site to compile my own quizzes for Buxton Mountain Rescue and am hoping to make a start on my next one shortly.

[Tilly2]

I have the same, Furry. The site is not safe, it says.

[furrypusscat]

Thanks Tilly, do you run Firefox?

[Tilly2]

No, Chrome, Furry.

[Tilly2]

I think the website must have a problem. I tried several of the options and all were the same. Did you notice the red line appearing to cross out the https part of the address?

[furrypusscat]

Thank you. I hope it is just a minor problem then. I will try again in a few days. It is a good site being able to enter searches using part of a place name and is invaluable to me to compile my quiz.

[furrypusscat]

Yes Tilly, their address isn't showing the 's' which is what makes it 'safe'.
Thank you sadpuffin for your reply.

[scorpiojo]

It's coming up as The Association of British Counties, now. Can't find a way to search anymore :(

[scorpiojo]

https://abcounties.com

[furrypusscat]

Yes thanks scorpio, I got as far as that but as you say no search. Gazetteer comes under the Association's license I think but was always a separate body. If we can't get the same as before, I will not be able to do my quizzes how I have been used to.

[scorpiojo]

Nooooooooooo :(

[furrypusscat]

I have sent internal mail to ABCounties to see if this is a temporary problem or has my fundraising quizzes come to an abrupt end.

[Calibax]

I noticed this a couple of days ago. I went to the home page and I think there was a message saying the site was being redesigned
(sounds familiar!). Hopefully it's a short term outage only.
It will be interesting to hear any replies you get from ABCounties.

[furrypusscat]

Yes I will update as soon as I have response.

[furrypusscat]

I am still awaiting a response from ABCounties, I have located a different site that allows searching for part words of place names althoug I am not sure that it is as good but maybe all is not lost. At least I will be able to compile my next quiz and use this site as reference should there be a permanent issue with the original site and others may also benefit.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Gazetteer

[Mamyalynne]

Thank you Furrypusscat, that's a good stop gap.

[furrypusscat]

Well, after a few messages to and fro this afternoon I have now got the Gazetteer back as it was so for anyone wishing to get this useful site back, here is the copy of the last email:

Dear Gillian,

It sounds like you need to clear your browser cache. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-clear-firefox-cache

It seems that a particular quirk of Firefox is that it does not easily forget things. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems has some instructions for ‘refreshing Firefox’, but I am not an expert on the Firefox browser!

You may also view the gazetteer at abcounties.com/gazetteer.

Regards,
Michael

I haven't tried clearing the cache, that is a task for later, but I opened the page by using abcounties.com/gazetteer.

[scorpiojo]

Thank you for that. Glad you're sorted :)

[furrypusscat]

They had said that the initial problem was a technical issue at their end but I am pleased it has all been resolved now. I can work on my next quiz now.