Agricultural parishes are based on Civil Parishes which were abolished as an administrative unit in Scotland in 1975. Agricultural parishes continue to be used for boundary and statistical purposes. Agricultural parish boundaries were last updated in 2016. There are 891 agricultural parishes in Scotland and they are used in the Agricultural Census and for the payment of farming grants and subsidies. The dataset contains parish boundaries, parish names, parish codes and GSS codes (the latter were assigned in September 2023 to allow for the publication of Official Statistics for this geography, although the original parish codes also remain in use).
