Civil Parishes of England and Wales, 1931

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Abstract: These are digital boundaries for the system of Civil Parishes which was and is the most detailed level of local administration in England and Wales, although in many areas parish councils are now moribund. This system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, although based on an earlier system of Ancient Parishes which were primarily ecclesiastical. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1931 Census of Population. To distinguish between identical place names with different administrative geographies, an Administrative County Boundaries layer may be used to add County name attributes to this layer. 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.

Type of resource	cartographic, software, multimedia
Form	Shapefile
Extent	19.395
Place	Portsmouth, GB
Publisher	University of Portsmouth
Publication date	2009
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Map data	1:126720 ; Custom projection W 6°59ʹ2ʺ--E 2°4ʹ36ʺ/N 55°48ʹ40ʺ--N 49°52ʹ52ʺW 6°21ʹ53ʺ--E 1°45ʹ58ʺ/N 55°48ʹ40ʺ--N 49°52ʹ57ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Subject	Parishes
Subject	Administrative and political divisions
Subject	Wales
Subject	1931
Subject	Boundaries
Genre	Geospatial data
Genre	Cartographic dataset

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
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	Title The Great Britain Historical GIS Project: From Maps to Changing Human Geography Associated with Southall, Humphrey Bennett, Chris Gilham, Vicki L. Gregory, Ian N. Imprint 2002 Title Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 2: A Geo-Spatial Ontology of Administrative Units Associated with Southall, Humphrey Imprint 2002 Title A Vision of Britain through Time Imprint 2002
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/gm960bz8147

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: Great Britain Historical GIS Project. (2009). Civil Parishes of England and Wales, 1931. University of Portsmouth. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gm960bz8147

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