Civil Parish and Community Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2016

Digital vector boundaries for civil parishes in England and communities in 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 20m generalised version clipped to the coastline. Contains both Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create detailed maps of local administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis of parish-level data using the coastline-clipped or generalised boundary files.
• Integrate parish boundaries into larger geographic information systems for regional planning.

Strengths

• Boundaries are provided at three specific resolutions: full extent (114 MB), full clipped (117 MB), and 20m generalised (13 MB).
• Data is temporally specific, representing the administrative geography as of 31 December 2016.

Limitations

• 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

As of 31 December 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:26.240030; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales