UK Data: UK places MCP Server

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answering

UK Data: UK places is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

UK postcode lookup, street-level crime, flood warnings, grid carbon intensity, bank holidays

Uptime history 69 hours of history

69 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

118 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check UK Data: UK places every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add uk-places --transport http https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-places

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-places

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.uk-places]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-places"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-places": {
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-places"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "uk-places": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-places"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

bank

bank_holidays

UK bank holidays (gov.uk). With no year, returns the upcoming ones, soonest first, plus the next holiday. Pass a year for that year in full. (cost: 1 credit)

carbon

carbon_intensity

Current GB grid carbon intensity, nationally or for a postcode region, with generation mix. (cost: 1 credit)

crime

crime_nearby

Street-level crime within about a mile of a point or postcode for a month (data.police.uk), counts by category and a sample. (cost: 2 credits)

flood

flood_warnings

Live Environment Agency flood warnings and alerts, optionally by county. (cost: 1 credit)

postcode

postcode_lookup

Postcode to coordinates, region, local authority, ward, constituency, LSOA/MSOA and ONS codes. (cost: 1 credit)

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-places	streamable-http	answering	73 ms	9 min ago

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UK Data: UK places — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UK Data: UK places do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: bank_holidays, carbon_intensity, crime_nearby, flood_warnings, postcode_lookup. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is UK Data: UK places working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 118 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect UK Data: UK places?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does UK Data: UK places need an API key?

No. UK Data: UK places completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is UK Data: UK places?

It answers our handshake in 118 ms on average, which is faster than 91% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.