Local Authority Districts: Great Britain Administrative Boundaries (2014)

Great Britain's Local Authority District boundaries as of December 2014. This dataset provides full-resolution digital vector boundaries, clipped to the coastline at the Mean High Water mark. It contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Mapping local government jurisdictions based on official 2014 boundaries.
• Performing spatial joins for demographic or economic data using the BFC (Full resolution - clipped) geometry.
• Creating base maps for regional planning and analysis within Great Britain.

Strengths

• Provides authoritative boundaries from Ordnance Survey and ONS.
• Offers full-resolution vector data clipped to the coastline for accurate representation.
• Is available on multiple platforms, indicating established use and importance.

Limitations

• Metadata for row count, file size, and specific columns is unavailable across all sources.
• The boundary data is from a single snapshot in December 2014 and may not reflect subsequent administrative changes.
• Conflicting 'last updated' timestamps (2023 and 2026) across platforms create uncertainty about metadata maintenance.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service, Ordnance Survey, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Time Range

December 2014

Freshness

2026-07-08 13:31:08.611091

Geography

Great Britain