Registration Districts of England and Wales, 1861
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- These are digital boundaries for the system of districts used in England and Wales for vital registration and also for the administration and reporting of the Census of Population. They were largely but not always identical to the system of Poor Law Unions. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1861 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.
Description
Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
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Form | Shapefile |
Extent | 4.371 |
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 |
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 | Districts |
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Subject | Administrative and political divisions |
Subject | England |
Subject | Wales |
Subject | 1861 |
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/jm094hn3724 |
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). Registration Districts of England and Wales, 1861. University of Portsmouth. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/jm094hn3724
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