1861 England and Wales navigable waterways

Satchell, M. and Shaw-Taylor, Leigh and Wrigley, E.A. (2023). 1861 England and Wales navigable waterways. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-852999

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 the 5550 miles of navigable waterways of England and Wales in 1861. This shapefile derives from a time dynamic GIS and database of navigable waterways of England and Wales 1600-1948 which is so structured that it can generate a GIS of navigable waterways for any given year between these dates.

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 Leigh	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