Parish Names and Codes for England and Wales, December 2014

Office for National Statistics provides a dataset of parish names and codes for England and Wales as of December 2014. The data is available for download in HTML format under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. The platform record was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Map parish-level administrative boundaries based on the described geographic coverage.
• Link parish identifiers to other census or statistical datasets based on the described code system.
• Analyze the distribution of parishes across England and Wales based on the described geographic scope.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• The dataset has a specific temporal snapshot from December 2014.
• It is distributed under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:02.101089; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales