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 to the realm extent, full resolution clipped to the coastline, and a generalised 20m version clipped to the coastline. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping local administrative units based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Spatial analysis of parish-level data using the coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Creating simplified cartographic visualizations using the generalised 20m boundaries.
• Integrating administrative boundaries into GIS systems for planning or demographic studies.

Strengths

• Provides three distinct boundary versions, including a generalised 20m version for different use cases.
• Contains boundaries as of a specific snapshot date: 31 December 2016.
• Includes both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights, indicating authoritative sources.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, focusing solely on England and Wales.
• Freshness should be verified; the last metadata update was 2026-07-08 13:33:23.449406.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative records.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2016.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:23.449406; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales.