Parliamentary Constituencies of England, 1949-1955

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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. In 1949 the whole system of county and borough/burgh constituencies was overhauled to achieve greater consistency across the UK and all two-member and non-spatial constituencies were abolished. This file represents the system as it was established following the Boundary Commission Report of 1949.
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	3.261
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

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

Subject	Parliament
Subject	Election districts
Subject	Administrative and political divisions
Subject	England
Subject	1949-1955
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/mt820mx1728

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Preferred citation: Great Britain Historical GIS Project. (2009). Parliamentary Constituencies of England, 1949-1955. University of Portsmouth. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/mt820mx1728.

A vision of Britain through time

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