Electoral Ward Boundaries for Great Britain, December 2015

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for electoral wards/divisions in Great Britain as at December 2015. The dataset includes four boundary variants: full resolution (extent of the realm and clipped to coastline), generalised (20m), and super generalised (200m). It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral ward boundaries based on the provided vector data.
• Performing spatial analysis on administrative units clipped to the coastline.
• Integrating boundary data with other UK demographic datasets for ward-level analysis.
• Using generalised boundaries (20m or 200m) for web mapping or simplified visualizations.

Strengths

• Provides four distinct boundary variants, including super generalised (200m) files as small as 3 MB.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources: Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics.
• Specific snapshot date (December 2015) provides a consistent temporal reference.

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.
• Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:44.075919; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Snapshot from December 2015. Metadata last updated 2026-07-08.

Geography

Great Britain