Parliamentary Constituencies of Wales, 1832-1862
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- These are digital boundaries for the system of Constituencies which were and are the units from which Members of Parliament are elected, and which they then represent. The system of county and borough constituencies has early origins but was not systematically mapped until the reforms introduced by the Representation of the People Act in 1832. This file represents the system as it was established following the Boundary Commission Report of 1832. The next Boundary Commission was not until 1868, but slightly earlier eliminations of rotten boroughs mean that a separate set of digital boundaries for constituencies in England and Wales has been created for the period 1862-8. Statistical data and other information used in “A Vision of Britain through Time” can be accessed here: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data.
- Purpose
- This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.
Description
Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
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Form | Shapefile |
Extent | 0.43 |
Place | Portsmouth, GB |
Publisher | University of Portsmouth |
Publication date | 2009 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Map data | 1:126720 ; Custom projection W 5°48ʹ40ʺ--W 2°38ʹ28ʺ/N 53°27ʹ5ʺ--N 51°19ʹ51ʺW 5°40ʹ10ʺ--W 2°38ʹ56ʺ/N 53°25ʹ44ʺ--N 51°22ʹ46ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
Creator | Southall, Humphrey | |
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Creator | Aucott, Paula | |
Creator | Bennett, Chris | |
Creator | University of Portsmouth | |
Creator | Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System |
Subjects
Subject | Parliament |
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Subject | Election districts |
Subject | Administrative and political divisions |
Subject | Wales |
Subject | 1832-1862 |
Subject | Boundaries |
Genre | Geospatial data |
Genre | Cartographic dataset |
Bibliographic information
Supplemental information | Gregory, I, Bennett, C, Gilham, V., and Southall, H. 2002. The Great Britain Historical GIS Project: from maps to changing human geography.' The Cartographic Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 37-49. Southall, H 2012, 'Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, part 2: a geo-spatial ontology of administrative units' Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, vol 45, no. 3, pp. 119-134. DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2012.664101 |
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Use limitation | For full details see License document included with this layer |
WGS84 Cartographics | This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection. |
Referenced by |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cd037jv4035 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- These data are licensed by Stanford Libraries and are available to Stanford University affiliates for non-commercial activities of research, teaching, educational or scholarly work purposes only. Affiliates are limited to current faculty, staff and students. An End User Licence outlining the full terms of use is included with this download.
- Copyright
- Copyright © Great Britain Historical GIS Project and the University of Portsmouth. By downloading any data from this site, you agree to the terms contained in the End User Licence.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Great Britain Historical GIS Project. (2009). Parliamentary Constituencies of Wales, 1832-1862. University of Portsmouth. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/cd037jv4035
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