Non-Civil Parished Areas in England: Names and Codes as of December 2020

December 2020 names and codes for non-civil parished areas in England, published by the Government Digital Service. The dataset includes three fields: a 9-character code, a 52-character name, and a system-generated feature ID. It was updated in October 2022 to incorporate late changes to six parishes and an unparished area in Leeds.

Use Cases

• Geospatial data validation based on official area codes (NCP20CD).
• Administrative boundary lookups based on area names (NCP20NM).
• Joining demographic or statistical data based on the non-civil parished area classification.
• Maintaining temporal consistency in geographic analyses based on the December 2020 snapshot.

Strengths

• Includes official updates to 6 parishes and the Leeds unparished area, reflecting late 2018 legislation.
• Field definitions are provided, specifying a 9-character code and a 52-character name field.
• Data is sourced from the authoritative Government Digital Service via the Open Geography portal.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2022-10-24 10:33:44.218000; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent for the FID field; its full semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service (UK), via the Open Geography portal.

Collection Method

Official administrative geography publication process.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2020.

Freshness

Snapshot as of 31 December 2020; metadata last updated 24 October 2022.

Geography

England.