Parish Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2015 Version 2

Digital vector boundaries for Parishes in England and Wales as of 31 December 2015. This second version includes updated parish boundaries in the Sevenoaks district for 13 specific parishes. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map parish-level administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyze coastal boundary definitions based on the Mean High Water and Mean Low Water mark options.
• Perform spatial analysis on updated parish boundaries in the Sevenoaks district.
• Create generalised visualisations using the 20m generalised boundary version.

Strengths

• Provides boundaries for parishes in England and Wales as of a specific date (31 December 2015).
• Offers three boundary variants: full extent, coastline-clipped, and a 20m generalised version.
• Specifics 13 updated parishes in the Sevenoaks district, indicating version control.
• File sizes for each variant are provided, ranging from 13 MB to 116 MB.

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.
• Data is from 2015; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative records.

Time Range

As of 31 December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:09.319521; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales