Local Authority Districts Boundaries for England and Wales, 1991

Digital vector boundaries for Local Authority Districts in England and Wales as they were in 1981. The dataset contains both Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property rights. It was last updated on the platform on 2026-07-16.

Use Cases

• Map historical administrative boundaries based on the 1991 district definitions.
• Conduct spatial analysis of England and Wales using 1981-era district geometries.
• Join socio-economic data to consistent 1991 Local Authority District boundaries.

Strengths

• Provides a specific historical snapshot of boundaries as of 1981.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources Ordnance Survey and ONS.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON, KML, and GPKG.

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

1981

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-16 08:01:19.114342; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales