Parliamentary Constituencies of England, 1870-1885 - Southall, Humphrey; Aucott, Paula; Bennett, Chris; University of Portsmouth; Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (A vision of Britain through time, 2009)
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. This file represents a separate set of digital boundaries for constituencies in England and Wales created for the period 1870-85 incorporating eliminations of rotten boroughs between the Boundary Commission Reports of 1868 and 1885. Statistical data and other information used in “A Vision of Britain through Time” can be accessed here: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data.
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.
Great Britain Historical GIS Project. (2009). Parliamentary Constituencies of England, 1870-1885. University of Portsmouth. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/qt609cw8960
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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Keywords: Geospatial data; cartographic dataset; Parliament; Election districts; Administrative and political divisions; England; 1870-1885; Boundaries