Parish Boundaries in 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 is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping local administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing changes in parish geography based on the updated boundaries in the Sevenoaks district.
• Performing spatial joins with demographic data using the coastline-clipped or full-extent boundary files.

Strengths

• Provides three specific boundary versions: full resolution (extent of the realm), full resolution (clipped to coastline), and generalised (20m clipped).
• Explicitly lists the 13 parishes that were updated in version 2, including Ash-cum-Ridley and Sevenoaks Weald.
• File sizes are provided for each version, ranging from 13 MB to 121 MB.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from December 2015; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative records.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:04.543080; temporal coverage is a snapshot as of 31 December 2015.

Geography

England and Wales