Parish Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2015 Version 2

Office for National Statistics provides 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 named parishes. The dataset contains three boundary variants: full resolution extent of the realm, full resolution clipped to the coastline, and a generalised (20m) version clipped to the coastline.

Use Cases

• Mapping parish-level administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing coastal boundaries based on the Mean High Water and Mean Low Water mark distinctions.
• Conducting spatial analysis for the Sevenoaks district using the updated parish boundaries.
• Creating generalised maps for visualization 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 specific boundary variants with stated file sizes: 112 MB, 116 MB, and 13 MB.
• Explicitly lists 13 parishes in the Sevenoaks district that have updated boundaries in this version.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, covering only England and Wales.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Time Range

As of 31 December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:49.337354; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales