National Parks Boundaries in Great Britain, December 2015

Digital vector boundaries for National Parks in Great Britain, as recorded in December 2015. The dataset contains three boundary versions: full extent, coastline-clipped, and a generalised 20-meter version. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map national park extents for conservation planning based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyze coastal boundary definitions based on the Mean High Water and Mean Low Water mark distinctions.
• Perform spatial analysis with simplified geometries based on the generalised 20-meter resolution version.
• Integrate park boundaries into regional land-use models based on the official December 2015 snapshot.

Strengths

• Provides three distinct boundary definitions (full extent, coastline-clipped, and generalised 20m) for flexibility.
• Snapshot is temporally specific to December 2015.
• Contains official boundaries from the Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey.

Limitations

• Data is from December 2015; current park boundaries may have changed.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analyses.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries, likely derived from official cartographic sources.

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:40.628739; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain