Parish Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2016 with Multiple Resolutions

Digital vector boundaries for Parishes and Non-Civil Parished Areas in England and Wales as at 31 December 2016. The dataset contains three boundary versions: full resolution to the realm extent, full resolution clipped to the coastline, and a 20m generalised version. It contains both Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping local administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing coastal versus inland parish extents based on the clipped and realm-extent boundary versions.
• Creating simplified maps for visualization using the 20m generalised boundary data.

Strengths

• Provides three specific boundary resolutions: full realm extent (119 MB), full clipped (122 MB), and 20m generalised (14 MB).
• Contains boundaries as of a specific date: 31 December 2016.
• Intellectual property rights are explicitly stated as belonging to Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:52.925599; freshness should be verified as the data itself is from 2016.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2016

Freshness

Data snapshot is from 31 December 2016; metadata was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Geography

England and Wales