Historical and ceremonial boundaries features

There are several supplementary layers included alongside the main Boundary-Line product. These supplementary layers sit separately to the main GB Boundary-Line folder and are included as separate directories in the shapefile and MapInfo TAB file formats.

Features included as supplementary in the supplementary directory are:

• Historical counties

• Ceremonial counties

• Historical European regions (frozen as of 1 April 2021)

• Country

Feature type attributes

The following sub-sections provide details about the attributes included with this feature type, their data types in the different output formats, and other important metadata about them.

fid

Feature identifier added by the software.

• Attribute Name: fid (GKPG), Not provided (TAB), Not provided (Shapefile)

• Multiplicity: [1]

Name

Name of the Ceremonial County, Historic County or Historic European Region.

• Attribute Name: Name (GKPG), Name (TAB), NAME (Shapefile)

• Data Type: char

• Size: 100

• Multiplicity: [1]

Area description

Classification set to Ceremonial County or Historic County or Historic European Region.

• Attribute Name: Area_Description (GKPG), Area_Description (TAB), DESCRIPT0 (Shapefile)

• Data Type: char

• Size: 50

• Multiplicity: [1]

Link ID

Boundary polygon.

• Attribute Name: Not provided (GKPG), Not provided (TAB), LINK_ID (Shapefile)

• Data Type: GM_Surface