UK Wards Administrative Boundaries as of December 2019

Digital vector boundaries for Wards in the United Kingdom, as at 31 December 2019. The boundaries are full resolution and clipped to the coastline. The dataset contains both Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on ward boundaries.
• Performing spatial joins for demographic data based on ward geography.
• Analyzing administrative area shapes and sizes using the provided length and area fields.
• Creating base maps for local government or public service planning.

Strengths

• Specific temporal snapshot as of 31 December 2019.
• Full-resolution boundaries clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark).
• Units for geometric fields (st_length in metres, st_area in square metres) are explicitly defined.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2019 snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries from Ordnance Survey and ONS.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:13.696316; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom