National Parks Boundaries for Great Britain, December 2022

Great Britain's National Parks boundaries as of December 2022. The dataset contains digital vector boundaries in an ultra-generalized (500m) format, clipped to the coastline. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping protected area coverage based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between national parks and other geographic features based on the generalized boundaries.
• Creating base maps for environmental impact assessments based on the official park extents.
• Studying administrative geography changes based on the documented name updates for specific parks.

Strengths

• Boundaries are current as of a specific date: December 2022.
• Includes documented name changes for several parks, such as Brecon Beacons to Bannau Brycheiniog.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats, including GeoJSON, KML, and GPKG.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The boundaries are ultra-generalized (500m), which may not be suitable for high-precision analysis.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2022

Freshness

Data reflects boundaries from December 2022; platform metadata was updated July 2026.

Geography

Great Britain