Boundary-Line

Boundary-Line | Data Products | OSOrdnance Survey

Boundary-Line provides a representation of the hierarchy of administrative and electoral boundaries and their names for England, Scotland and Wales. Boundary-Line for England and Wales was initially digitised from Ordnance Survey’s boundary record sheets at 1:10 000 scale (or, in some cases, at larger scales).

This product is updated twice a year in May and October.

A representation of Boundary-Line data showing boundary lines within Great Britain

Features

Highlight social and economic trends

Public bodies release a wealth of data via data.gov.uk, census results and other sources. By illustrating your analysis on maps created with Boundary-Line, you'll be able to highlight the social and economic trends shaping changes in how we live and work.

View historical county boundaries

As an addition to the core Boundary-Line product, which is updated twice a year, you can download data showing historical county boundaries from the late 19th Century. This is ideal for historians who need to analyse old census records and archives.

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.

Professional quality, free of charge

Mapped at a scale of 1:10 000, Boundary-Line is quality-assured to the same standard as our premium products. But since it's covered by the Open Government Licence (OGL), you can download it for free and use it in a wide range of ways.

Use Cases

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.

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.

Decision making applications

Boundary-Line can be used for GIS analysis to support a wide range of business decision-making, such as:

• Political analysis

• Environmental analysis

• Statistical analysis for social or marketing decision-making

• Geo-demographic analysis

• Asset management

• Planning applications

• Legal work

• Reference and research

• Customised graphic output

Summary

• Access: Download

• Data theme: Administrative and Statistical Units

• Data structure: Vector – Polygons

• Coverage: Great Britain

• Scale: 1:10 000

• Format: Vector tiles, GeoPackage, ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo TAB, GML 3.2.1

• Ordering area: All of Great Britain

• Publication months: May, October

• OS Data Hub plan: OS OpenData Plan (FREE), Public Sector Plan, Premium Plan, Energy & Infrastructure Plan

How to get this product

Access to this OS OpenData product is free through the OS Data Hub.

Visualise Boundary-Line data online

This product is available to try out online using one of our three sets of sample data (Exeter, Newport and Inverness) through the OS MasterMap Product Viewer:

OS MasterMap Product Viewer

Interactive demonstrator of OS MasterMap Generation data