1851 Scotland ancient counties

Satchell, M. and Shaw-Taylor, L.M.W.S. and Wrigley, E.A. and Anderson, M. and Roughley, C. and Stickler, P. (2023). 1851 Scotland ancient counties. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-852943

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 788 polygons providing boundary and attribute data for the 32 ancient counties of Scotland as given in the 1851 census. As such this represents the counties of Scotland as they were before the boundary changes caused by Inverness and Elgin County Boundaries Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 16) and the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 50) which eliminated the anomalies caused by the existence of detached portions of counties.

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
Anderson M.	University of Edinburgh
Roughley C.	University of Cambridge
Stickler P.	University of Cambridge