Local Administrative Units Level 2 Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2014

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for Local Administrative Units (Level 2) in England and Wales as of December 2014. The dataset contains four boundary variants, including full-resolution and generalised versions, with file sizes ranging from 2 MB to 97 MB. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping administrative regions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Conducting spatial analysis of local government units in England and Wales.
• Creating generalised boundary visualizations using the 20m or 200m clipped versions.
• Integrating administrative boundaries with other geospatial datasets for regional studies.

Strengths

• Provides four distinct boundary variants (full extent, clipped, 20m generalised, 200m super generalised) for flexibility.
• Specific file sizes are listed for each variant, ranging from 2 MB to 97 MB.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources (Ordnance Survey and ONS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from December 2014; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:45.601903; temporal coverage is December 2014.

Geography

England and Wales