Welsh Local Health Board Administrative Boundaries, December 2015

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for local health boards in Wales as of 31 December 2015. The dataset includes five resolution variants, from full resolution to ultra generalised (500m), each clipped to the coastline. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map health service coverage based on the provided administrative boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins with health data using the ultra generalised (500m) boundaries for faster processing.
• Create visualizations of health board regions clipped to the Mean High Water mark coastline.
• Analyze jurisdictional extents using the full resolution boundaries that include offshore islands.

Strengths

• Provides boundaries as of a specific date: 31 December 2015.
• Offers five distinct resolution variants, with file sizes ranging from 23 KB to 3 MB.
• Includes a REST URL for an ArcGIS INSPIRE View Service and Feature Download Service.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Freshness should be verified; the snapshot is from 2015.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

2015-12-31

Freshness

Snapshot from 2015-12-31; metadata last updated 2026-07-08.

Geography

Wales