1851 England and Wales ancient counties

Satchell, M. and Shaw-Taylor, L.M.W.S. and Wrigley, E.A. and Kitson, P.K. and Newton, G.H. (2023). 1851 England and Wales ancient counties. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-852942

These data were created as part of a research program directed by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Tony Wrigley, which aims ultimately to reconstruct the evolution of the occupational structure of Britain from the late medieval period down to the early twentieth century.

Data description (abstract)

ArcGIS shapefile of 244 polygons providing boundary and attribute data for the fifty-five ancient counties of England and Wales as given in the 1851 census for England and Wales.

Data creators:
Creator Name Affiliation ORCID (as URL)
Satchell M. The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3340-9825
Shaw-Taylor L.M.W.S. The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3703-7689
Wrigley E.A. The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Kitson P.K.
Newton G.H. The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Sponsors: Economic and Social Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust , The British Academy
Grant reference: RES-000-23-1579
Topic classification: History
Demography (population, vital statistics and censuses)
Keywords: maps, digitized map data, boundaries, attributes, census data, 1851, GIS
Project title: The changing occupational structure of nineteenth century Britain
Grant holders: Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Professor E. A. Wrigley
Project dates:
FromTo
1 March 200628 February 2009
Date published: 06 Apr 2018 15:44
Last modified: 31 Aug 2023 10:18

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