Parish Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2015 Version 2

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. The dataset contains Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping local administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing boundary changes in the Sevenoaks district based on the version 2 updates.
• Performing spatial analysis clipped to the coastline using the Mean High Water mark versions.
• Creating generalised maps for visualization using the 20m resolution data.

Strengths

• Provides three specific boundary versions: full resolution (extent), full resolution (coastline-clipped), and generalised (20m).
• Explicitly lists the 13 parishes in the Sevenoaks district that were updated in this version.
• Contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• File sizes are provided for each version, with the generalised version being 13 MB.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a specific snapshot date (December 2015); freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries, likely derived from official cartographic sources.

Time Range

As at 31 December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:17.650409; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales