Parishes
Name in the API
parishCovers
Areas in the latest release
Published by
Boundary releases
The Atlas holds 7 releases of these boundaries, newest first. Use the release id wherever an endpoint asks for release.
| Release | Description | Areas | Map tiles |
|---|---|---|---|
2026-05-ew-bgc | Parishes and non civil parished areas, May 2026 (England and Wales, generalised, clipped) | 11,542 | Yes |
2025-05-ew-bgc | Parishes and non civil parished areas, May 2025 (England and Wales, generalised, clipped) | 11,539 | Yes |
2024-12-ew-bgc | Parishes and non civil parished areas, December 2024 (England and Wales, generalised, clipped) | 11,541 | Yes |
2023-12-ew-bgc | Parishes and non civil parished areas, December 2023 (England and Wales, generalised, clipped) | 11,548 | Yes |
2022-12-ew-bgc-v3 | Parishes and non civil parished areas, December 2022 (England and Wales, generalised, clipped) | 11,567 | Yes |
2021-12-ew-bgc | Parishes and non civil parished areas, December 2021 (England and Wales, generalised, clipped) | 11,562 | Yes |
2019-04-ew-bgc | Parishes and non civil parished areas, April 2019 (England and Wales, generalised, clipped) | 11,556 | Yes |
Boundaries are published by Office for National Statistics under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Get attribution text gives the credit line for a map.
Datasets on these areas
No data in the Atlas is published on parishes yet. You can still look up these areas, draw their boundaries, and find which other areas they sit inside or overlap.
Request it
List the areas in the latest release:
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/areas?geography=parish&release=2026-05-ew-bgc&limit=5"Draw them on a map with vector tiles:
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/map-resources/parish/2026-05-ew-bgc/tiles.json"/areas/{geography}/{release}/{code}/geometryGet an area's shapeget/areas:containsFind areas at a pointget/boundary-releases:resolveFind boundaries for a dateDownloads
Every release has an area-code lookup table. Releases with map resources also have downloadable PMTiles and GeoParquet shapes. The source and licence information above applies to these files too; preserve the attribution and note any cleaning or reformatting when you redistribute one.
| Release | Area codes | Boundary files |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-ew-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2025-05-ew-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2024-12-ew-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2023-12-ew-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2022-12-ew-bgc-v3 | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2021-12-ew-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2019-04-ew-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |