Parish Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2015

England and Wales parish and non-civil parished area boundaries as of 31 December 2015. The dataset contains digital vector boundaries in three versions: full resolution (extent of the realm), full resolution clipped to the coastline, and a generalised (20m) version. It 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 boundaries, particularly in the Sevenoaks district, based on the version 2 update.
• Performing spatial analysis clipped to the Mean High Water coastline using the provided boundary versions.

Strengths

• Provides boundaries for a specific snapshot date (31 December 2015).
• Offers three boundary versions, including a generalised 20m version for smaller file sizes (13 MB).
• Explicitly lists 13 updated parishes in the Sevenoaks district for version 2.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from 2015; administrative boundaries may have changed since the snapshot date.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:24.420449; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales