Parish and Non-Civil Parished Area Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2016

Digital vector boundaries for Parishes and Non-Civil Parished Areas in England and Wales as of 31 December 2016. The dataset contains three boundary versions: full resolution extent of the realm, full resolution clipped to the coastline, and a generalised (20m) version clipped to the coastline. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping local administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Spatial analysis of parish-level data using the generalised (20m) clipped boundaries.
• Integrating administrative geography into larger models using the coastline-clipped versions.
• Visualising the extent of civil parishes versus non-civil parished areas.

Strengths

• Provides three specific boundary versions with stated resolutions (full and generalised 20m).
• Includes explicit file size information for each version (e.g., 14 MB for the generalised version).
• Contains a specific snapshot date (31 December 2016) for temporal consistency.
• Published by an authoritative source, the Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from 2016; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries derived from authoritative sources.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2016.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:19.144185; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales