Local Authority District Boundaries for Great Britain, December 2009

Digital vector boundaries for Local Authority Districts in Great Britain as at December 2009. The dataset contains five boundary versions, including full-resolution and generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) files clipped to the coastline. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping historical administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Conducting spatial analysis of socio-economic data using the generalised boundary files.
• Integrating with other geospatial datasets using the December 2009 administrative snapshot.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions, including full-resolution (45-49 MB) and generalised (367 KB to 6 MB) files for different use cases.
• Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights, indicating authoritative source data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the December 2009 snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2009

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:47.629155; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain