Parish Names and Codes for England and Wales, December 2015

Parish-level administrative geography data for England and Wales, published by the Office for National Statistics. The dataset contains names and codes as of December 2015 and is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0. It was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Geocoding and address matching based on parish names and codes.
• Joining demographic or census statistics based on parish identifiers.
• Mapping and spatial analysis of administrative boundaries in England and Wales.
• Data validation and standardization for UK address or location datasets.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Licensed under the open OGL-UK-3.0 license.
• Provides a standardized reference for parish-level geography.

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 reflects a specific snapshot from December 2015; temporal coverage is limited.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official administrative registers.

Time Range

December 2015 snapshot

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:30.022720; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales