This data shows the local authority districts, council areas (Scotland) and unitary authorities for Great Britain. A JPEG image of the map is also contained in the download.

A PDF map that shows the local authority districts, counties and unitary authorities in the United Kingdom as at April 2023. The map has been created to show the United Kingdom from country level down to local authority district level. (File Size - 1,909 KB)

The administrative boundaries of local authorities in England as provided by the ONS for the purposes of producing statistics.

This data shows the local authority districts, council areas (Scotland) and unitary authorities for Great Britain. The attached Layer File can be used to symbolise the different types of boundaries. A JPEG image of the map is also contained in the download. This dataset was made from the OS OpenData Boundary Line product http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/boundary-line/index.html. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2012-05-10 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.

A PDF map shows the Regions and their constituent counties, metropolitan counties, Greater London authority and unitary authorities in England, council areas in Scotland, unitary authorities in Wales and district council areas in Northern Ireland as at April 2011. (File Size - 638 KB).

A PDF map shows the Regions and their constituent counties, metropolitan counties, Greater London authority and unitary authorities in England, council areas in Scotland, unitary authorities in Wales and district council areas in Northern Ireland as at April 2011. (File Size - 638 KB).

The administrative boundaries of civil parish councils in England. The ONS provides this data for the purposes of producing statistics.

Please note, the resources available here are no longer updated on this page. The resources are available for use, but please check the source for the most recent information.

Digital map boundaries of areas within Lincolnshire. Themes include Administrative, Electoral, Statistical, and Health.

These boundary data sets are sourced from Ordnance Survey (OS) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). They come under the terms of the UK Govt. Open Government Licence (OGL). You can use any of the boundary data sets for any purpose, but you must use the following copyright statements when you reproduce or use this material:

• Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
• Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right [year]

Electoral Wards/Divisions are the key building blocks of UK administrative geography. They are the spatial units used to elect local government councillors in metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts, unitary authorities and the London boroughs in England; unitary authorities in Wales; council areas in Scotland; and district council areas in Northern Ireland.

The Wards and Electoral Divisions list contains 9,481 areas of the following constituent geographies:

• 7,218 Census Wards in England
• 453 Census Electoral Divisions in England
• 7 Census Merged Wards in England
• 582 Census Wards in Northern Ireland
• 353 Census Wards in Scotland
• 856 Census Electoral Divisions in Wales
• 12 Census Merged Wards in Wales

Please visit ONS Beginner's Guide to UK Geography for more info.

The boundaries are available as either extent of the realm (usually this is the Mean Low Water mark but in some cases boundaries extend beyond this to include off shore islands) or

clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark).

This dataset is primarily intended to be used for informing development decisions. This dataset is incomplete, and contains some authoritative data provided by local authorities, as well as conservation area boundaries from Historic England, and other secondary sources found on data.gov.uk. The data currently contains a number of duplicate areas we are working to remove.

From Parliamentary constituencies to council wards, Boundary-Line™ maps every administrative boundary in detail for you. And what's more, it's completely free to download and use. Bring statistics to life For academics or policy-makers, Boundary-Line brings the statistics in your reports to life. It lets you show differences between regions or councils using easy-to-read shaded maps. A robust framework Monitoring outcomes by area is key for public bodies. Boundary-Line gives you a robust analytical framework to ensure the right communities get the right resources. Individual properties When you're consulting on updating boundaries to take account of population change, Boundary-Line lets you show on a map where the line's being drawn, right down to the level of individual properties.

The local authority interactive tool (LAIT) is an app that presents information in interactive tables and charts, along with local authorities’ rank positions in England and against statistical neighbours.

It includes local authority, regional and national data on:

• children looked after and adoption
• child protection
• the children’s social care workforce
• special educational needs and disability
• pupil attainment and attendance
• children’s health
• youth justice
• post-16
• finance

The ‘Children’s services statistical neighbour benchmarking tool’ allows you to select a local authority and display its ‘closest statistical neighbours’ (local authorities with similar characteristics). The tool has been reviewed and rebuilt to include updated socio-economic variables from the 2021 census. More information is available in the associated update note and technical report.

A list of central and local government land in England, which may not be registered with HM Land Registry (HMLR).

HMLR has created this dataset for the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) by combining HMLR freehold polygon data with the public sector ownership data currently openly available from the Office of Government Property.

The dataset is not definitive or complete as not all central and local government data is captured, and/or available, and the two datasets are not held in the same format. The list is therefore indicative rather than definitive.

Intellectual Property Rights

The dataset includes address data processed against Ordnance Survey’s AddressBase Premium product and incorporates Royal Mail’s PAF® database (Address Data). Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey permit your use of Address Data:

• for personal and/or non-commercial use
• in relation to the analysis of public sector land and property.

If you want to use the Address Data in any other way, you must contact Royal Mail. Email

Address data

The following fields comprise the address data included in the dataset

• Property Name
• Street No
• Road
• Town
• Postcode

A collection of approximately 1400 Ordnance Survey 1:25 000 paper maps upon which the former Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHLG) recorded hand drawn boundaries for permitted, withdrawn and refused mineral planning permissions and worked ground for every local authority area in England. Accompanying the maps is an associated card index (see metadata for MHLG Cards). Priority was placed on areas that had given rise to then current casework issues, so at the time when the maintenance of the maps ended, some authority information had been updated recently whereas other areas had not been visited for many years. Therefore, the variable completeness of the data should be kept in mind when the material is being used. Both the maps and the card index have been used to create the digital mineral planning permissions polygons (see metadata for MHLG Planning Permission Polygons). Polygons for worked ground have not been captured.

This map is published as Open DataLocal government in Scotland comprises 32 unitary local authorities (council areas), which are divided into wards for electoral purposes. There are currently a total of 1,226 councillors elected from 355 wards - with each Mainland ward returning 3 or 4 councillors. Island wards may have 1 or 2 member wards. Boundaries Scotland is responsible for recommendations on the definition of ward boundaries, however, the definitive dataset is delineated by Ordnance Survey for inclusion in their BoundaryLine product.Latest boundaries as per 2017 review.

This dataset summarises information from WWT's wetland potential mapping at the WFD waterbody catchment (catchment) level. Data from multiple layers are pulled together to allow visualisation of the relative potential for wetlands across catchments of Great Britain. Specifically, it includes data from the WWT 'wetlands for water quality', 'wetlands for carbon storage', 'wetlands for flood resilience' and 'wetlands for urban wellbeing' indicative wetland potential maps, and from the Combined 'multi-benefit' wetland potential map, which amalgamates these four layers. It is recommended that users view these layers alongside the layers created from this dataset.The absence of mapped wetland potential in a catchment does not necessarily mean there is no potential to create wetlands, nor a lack of issues that wetland solutions could be used to address. Wetland potential was only mapped within 'demand' areas where there is a greater need for wetland solutions.This dataset includes the following information:UK Water Framework Directive (WFD) status and waterbody identifiers (for waterbodies in England, Wales and Scotland).Summary information on the total indicative wetland potential (from the four wetland potential maps) per catchment, including the total area (in hectares) and percentage cover of wetland potential across the catchment area.Total area and percentage cover of 'wetlands for flood resilience' and 'wetlands for water quality' potential per catchment. Number of potential 'wetlands for flood resilience' and 'wetlands for water quality' parcels per catchment (figures may be arbitrary due to intersects used to summarise wetland potential).Priority 'demand' catchments for potential 'wetlands for water quality'. Priority 'demand' catchments for potential 'wetlands for flood resilience'. Percentage change in household projections for 2018-2041, per catchment (averaged across Local Authorities and Higher Administrative areas (England & Wales) and Council areas (Scotland)).Average number of new builds (averaged across Local Authorities) built in 2021-2022, per catchment.WWT are calling for the creation of 100,000 hectares of new and restored wetlands in the UK by 2050. This dataset is a part of WWT’s Roadmap to 100,000 hectares project, which aims to assess both the spatial and economic potential for large-scale wetland restoration targeted at tackling some of the key issues faced by UK society. The work has a particular focus on four themes where wetlands can provide solutions, namely (1) wetlands for carbon storage (specifically saltmarsh for blue carbon), (2) wetlands for urban wellbeing, (3) wetlands for flood resilience, and (4) wetlands for water quality. Wetland potential for water quality, carbon storage, flood resilience and urban wellbeing has been mapped.Full methodology can be found here. Attributes:

Heading

Description

wb_id

ID number of the WFD waterbody

wb_name

Name of the WFD waterbody

country

UK country in which the WFD waterbody is located

WFD_class

WFD status classification of the waterbody

ovl_p_ha

Total area of wetland potential (from all four WWT wetland potential layers) in the catchment, in hectares

percnt_ovl

Total area of wetland potential (from all four WWT wetland potential layers) in the waterbody, as a percentage of the catchment area

count_ovl

Number of wetland potential parcels located in the catchment (arbitrary value)

nfm_p_ha

Total area of 'wetlands for flood resilience' potential in the catchment, in hectares

percnt_nfm

Total area of 'wetlands for flood resilience' potential in the catchment, as a percentage of the catchment area

count_nfm

Number of 'wetlands for flood resilience' parcels located in the catchment

wq_p_ha

Total area of 'wetlands for water quality' potential in the catchment

percnt_wq

Total area of 'wetlands for water quality' potential in the catchment, as a percentage of the catchment area

count_wq

Number 'wetlands for water quality' parcels located in the catchment

priorit_wq

Priority 'demand' catchments for 'wetlands for water quality' (1 = 'demand' catchment')

prior_nfm

Priority 'demand' catchments for 'wetlands for flood resilience' (1 = 'demand' catchment')

Av_percent

Percentage change in household predictions from 2018 - 2041 averaged across Local Authorities within the catchment

Av_nb_2122

Number of new builds (2021-22) per catchment (average across Local Authorities within the catchment)

This dataset contains the administrative boundary for each Local Planning Authority (LPA) in England. It can be used to: assist in the production planning and other statistics help find the LPA responsible for a planning application on a map, for example

This dataset contains recreation demand maps for the UK based on weekly, monthly and yearly visit frequencies. Recreation includes activities such as walking, hiking, cycling, etc, i.e., ‘outdoor non-vehicular recreation’. Recreation demand was calculated as the number of projected visits for local recreation, estimated using the universal law of human mobility (Schläpfer et al., 2021, Nature). Recreation demand maps are supplied at 250 m resolution in a British National Grid transverse Mercator projection (EPSG 27700). For each visit frequency (weekly, monthly and yearly), there is a map with and without attractiveness included in the calculation, where protected areas are used a proxy for attractiveness. This research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/W005050/1 AgZero+ : Towards sustainable, climate-neutral farming. AgZero+ is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).