Parish Boundaries in England and Wales, December 2015 with Three Resolution Versions

Digital vector boundaries for Parishes and Non-Civil Parished Areas in England and Wales as at 31 December 2015. The second version updated parish boundaries in the Sevenoaks district, including Ash-cum-Ridley, Brasted, Chevening, Eynsford, Hartley, Hextable, Leigh, Otford, Penshurst, Sevenoaks Weald, Shoreham, Swanley, and Westerham. Contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create detailed maps of local administrative units based on the provided full-extent and coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis of parish-level data in England and Wales using the generalised (20m) boundaries for faster processing.
• Update geographic information systems with the corrected boundaries for the 13 parishes in the Sevenoaks district mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Provides three distinct boundary versions: full resolution extent of the realm (118 MB), full resolution clipped to coastline (121 MB), and generalised (20m) clipped to coastline (13 MB).
• Specifically documents updates to boundaries for 13 named parishes in the Sevenoaks district, indicating version control.
• Contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics, suggesting authoritative sourcing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale statistical projects.
• Data is from a specific snapshot date (December 2015); freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

As at 31 December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:22.568488; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales