Electoral Ward Boundaries for Great Britain, December 2015

Digital vector boundaries for electoral wards/divisions in Great Britain as at December 2015. The dataset contains four boundary variants, including full-resolution and generalised versions clipped to the coastline. Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create electoral maps based on the full-resolution boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis using the generalised (20m) boundaries for faster processing.
• Integrate ward boundaries into GIS applications via the provided ArcGIS REST services.
• Visualize administrative geography for Great Britain using the super generalised (200m) boundaries for web mapping.

Strengths

• Offers four distinct boundary variants, including full-resolution and generalised (20m and 200m) versions.
• File sizes are provided for each variant, ranging from 3 MB to 135 MB.
• Contains intellectual property rights from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from December 2015; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:27.471296

Geography

Great Britain