Combined Authorities in England: Generalised Clipped Boundaries, June 2016

England's combined authority boundaries as of 17 June 2016. The dataset provides digital vector boundaries from the Office for National Statistics in five resolutions, from full resolution to ultra generalised (500m). It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create regional maps based on the provided generalised boundary files.
• Perform spatial analysis of combined authority areas using the coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Integrate administrative boundaries into GIS systems using the available GeoJSON, KML, or CSV formats.

Strengths

• Provides boundaries in five specific resolutions, including full, 20m, 200m, and 500m generalisation.
• File sizes are explicitly listed, ranging from 18 KB to 1.3 MB.
• Boundaries are clipped to the Mean High Water coastline mark for consistency.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single snapshot from June 2016.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

As at 17 June 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:29.228715; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England