Local Administrative Units Level 1 Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2015

Local Administrative Units Level 1 (December 2015) Generalised Clipped Boundaries in England and Wales contains digital vector boundaries for LAU1 units as of December 2015. The dataset from the Office for National Statistics provides five boundary versions at different resolutions, from full to ultra-generalised. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map local administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins with other datasets using the generalised boundaries for computational efficiency.
• Create visualizations clipped to the UK coastline based on the Mean High Water mark clipping.
• Integrate administrative boundaries into web mapping services using the provided ArcGIS REST URLs.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions, including file sizes ranging from 225 KB to 30 MB.
• Contains boundaries from authoritative sources: Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Offers direct access via multiple ArcGIS REST services for viewing and download.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, covering only England and Wales.
• Freshness should be verified; the snapshot is from December 2015.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Snapshot from December 2015; metadata last updated 2026-07-08.

Geography

England and Wales