England and Wales County Names and Codes, April 1991

Office for National Statistics provides a dataset of county names and codes for England and Wales as of April 1991. The data is available under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. The record was last updated on 2026-07-08 13:30:19.633774.

Use Cases

• Link historical data to counties based on the provided names and codes.
• Map administrative boundaries for England and Wales as they existed in April 1991.
• Standardize county identifiers for data integration projects covering the early 1990s.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• The dataset has a specific temporal reference point of April 1991.
• It is licensed under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

April 1991

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:19.633774; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales