Parish to Ward to Local Authority District Lookup for England and Wales, December 2015

A geographic lookup table linking parishes to wards to local authority districts in England and Wales. The data was produced by the Office for National Statistics and reflects administrative boundaries as of December 2015. The dataset is licensed under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local statistics from parish to district level based on the hierarchical lookup structure.
• Mapping demographic or economic data using consistent administrative geography codes.
• Joining datasets from different sources that use parish, ward, or district identifiers.
• Validating the administrative hierarchy for addresses or other location data in England and Wales.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Provides a clear hierarchical relationship between three levels of UK administrative geography.
• Licensed under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

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 specific snapshot from December 2015 and may not reflect current boundaries.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:49.159813; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales