Public Health England Centres Geographic Boundaries, July 2015

July 2015 digital vector boundaries for Public Health England Centres in England. The dataset contains multiple boundary resolutions, including full extent, coastline-clipped, and generalised versions (20m, 200m, 500m). It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains Ordnance Survey and ONS intellectual property rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping public health administrative regions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Spatial analysis of health data aggregated to Public Health England Centres based on the geographic units.
• Creating generalised boundary files for web mapping based on the 20m, 200m, and 500m resolution options.
• Clipping other geographic datasets to the coastline using the Mean High Water mark boundaries.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, from full detail (6-11 MB files) to ultra generalised (60 KB).
• Includes both the full extent of the realm and versions clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark).
• Contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

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 July 2015; administrative boundaries may have changed since then.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative records.

Time Range

July 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:23.818520; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England