Civil Parishes of England and Wales, 1891

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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 1891 Census of Population.

Description

Type of resource cartographic, software, multimedia
Form Shapefile
Extent 20.032
Place Portsmouth, GB
Publisher University of Portsmouth
Publication date 2009
Language English
Digital origin born digital
Map data 1:126720Scale not given. ; 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
Creator Aucott, Paula
Creator Bennett, Chris
Creator University of Portsmouth

Subjects

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
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.
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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). Civil Parishes of England and Wales, 1891. University of Portsmouth. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nh764wk7485

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