Thanks for the replies, will make some further enquires.

If they are "Climat" stations, how come the data is uploaded to the
net. The majority of Climat Stations are not included. Relying on
observers sending data to the Met Office via OWL etc, unless they have
their own personal weather stations running along side updating the
internet.

Dave - the pushpins are very inaccurate ! Spadeadam appears to be at
the end of my drive !

thanks
Paul C