Parish to Ward to Local Authority District Lookup for England and Wales, May 2026

England and Wales administrative geography lookup linking civil parishes, electoral wards, and local authorities as of 7th May 2026. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics and was last updated on 13th May 2026. It includes nine text fields containing codes and names for each geographic level.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local statistics from parish-level to local authority district-level based on the hierarchical codes.
• Mapping electoral ward boundaries to their constituent civil parishes using the provided lookup fields.
• Validating the consistency of geographic identifiers across different UK government datasets.
• Joining demographic or economic data to specific administrative areas using the standardized codes.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot of administrative boundaries as of 7th May 2026.
• Includes nine distinct fields for codes and names in both English and Welsh, as suggested by field suffixes like 'NMW'.
• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, focusing solely on England and Wales.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot as of 7th May 2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 18:04:18.553335; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales