gazette_search_notices
Pack: uk-gazette · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-gazette/mcp
Search The Gazette — the UK’s official public record of statutory notices (London, Edinburgh and Belfast editions, archive back to 1665). Full-text search plus filters for notice category, publication date range, edition, and location. Covers company events (liquidations, administrations, winding-up petitions, name changes), personal insolvency, deceased estates, road/planning orders, honours, state and royal notices. Use for “official UK notices about X”, “gazette notices for company Y”, “road closure orders near Z”. Example: gazette_search_notices({ query: “Tesco”, category: “corporate insolvency” })
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | no | Full-text search — company name, person, place, or any words appearing in the notice text |
category | string | no | Notice category — a name like “corporate insolvency”, “wills & probate”, “road restrictions”, or a code from gazette_notice_categories (G-code or legacy 2-digit) |
notice_types | string | no | Advanced: one or more 4-digit notice type codes joined with ”+”, e.g. “2450” (petitions to wind up) |
edition | string | no | Restrict to one edition: “london”, “edinburgh”, or “belfast” |
published_after | string | no | Earliest publication date, YYYY-MM-DD |
published_before | string | no | Latest publication date, YYYY-MM-DD |
location | string | no | UK postcode or town/city name to search around (needs distance_miles, default 5) |
distance_miles | number | no | Radius in miles around location (default 5) |
sort | string | no | ”newest” (default) or “oldest” |
page | number | no | Results page, starting at 1 |
limit | number | no | Results per page, 1-50 (default 10) |
Example call
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-gazette/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"gazette_search_notices","arguments":{}}}'Connect
Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:
{
"mcpServers": {
"uk-gazette": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-gazette/mcp"
}
}
}See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.