Burghs and Districts of Scotland, 1971

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: These are digital boundaries for the system of burghs and districts of county essentially created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 and continuing to exist until 1975. Scotland was divided into Cities, Large Burghs, Small Burghs and Districts of County (with the exception of the counties of Kinross and Nairn, whose rural areas were not subdivided). These units generally functioned as sub-divisions of Scottish Counties with powers varying according to status, but the four Cities had full independence from the County they were situated within. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1971 Census of Population. 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	1.898
Place	Portsmouth, GBPortsmouth, GB
Publisher	University of Portsmouth : University of Portsmouth
Publication date	2017
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Map data	1:126720 ; Custom projection W 9°11ʹ35ʺ--W 0°42ʹ54ʺ/N 60°51ʹ34ʺ--N 54°30ʹ55ʺW 8°37ʹ1ʺ--W 0°44ʹ2ʺ/N 60°51ʹ16ʺ--N 54°38ʹ1ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creator	Southall, Humphrey
Creator	Aucott, Paula
Creator	Bennett, Chris
Creator	University of Portsmouth
Creator	Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System

Subject	Boroughs
Subject	Cities and towns
Subject	Administrative and political divisions
Subject	Scotland
Subject	1971
Subject	1832-1862
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
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/xr801bn2282

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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). Burghs and Districts of Scotland, 1971. University of Portsmouth. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/xr801bn2282; CREDIT

A vision of Britain through time

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