England and Wales Parish to Ward to Local Authority District Lookup for December 2014

England and Wales administrative geography lookup table mapping parishes to wards to local authority districts. The dataset is produced by the Office for National Statistics under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local statistics from parishes to higher administrative levels based on the hierarchical mapping.
• Joining demographic or economic data using the geographic lookup codes mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing changes in administrative boundaries over time by comparing this 2014 snapshot with other years.
• Creating choropleth maps for local authority districts by assigning parish-level data using the lookup.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative Office for National Statistics, a key UK government data body.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating reuse.
• Provides a specific temporal snapshot for December 2014, useful for historical analysis.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects a 2014 snapshot; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official UK administrative geography registers.

Time Range

December 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:36.325431; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales