Parish Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2015 with Three Resolution Levels

Digital vector boundaries for Parishes and Non-Civil Parished Areas in England and Wales as of 31 December 2015. This second version updated parish boundaries in the Sevenoaks district, including Ash-cum-Ridley and 12 other parishes. The dataset contains boundaries from Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics in three versions: full resolution (extent of the realm), full resolution clipped to the coastline, and a 20m generalised version.

Use Cases

• Mapping parish-level administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing coastal boundary definitions based on the Mean High Water and Mean Low Water mark distinctions.
• Conducting spatial analysis for the Sevenoaks district using the updated parish boundaries.
• Creating generalised maps for visualization using the 20m resolution clipped boundaries.

Strengths

• Provides three specific boundary versions: full realm extent (118 MB), full clipped (121 MB), and 20m generalised (13 MB).
• Explicitly documents updates to 13 specific parishes in the Sevenoaks district.
• Contains intellectual property from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred 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

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative records.

Time Range

As of 31 December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:50.320167; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales