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Great Britain Historical Database: Digital Boundaries for Registration Counties of England and Wales, 1851-1911

1851 England and Wales census registration subdistricts

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Populations Past Data: Demographic and Socio-economic Data for Registration Sub-districts of England and Wales, 1851-1911, and Registration Districts of Scotland, 1851-1901

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Summary information

Study title

1851 England and Wales Census registration counties

Creator

Satchell, M, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Shaw-Taylor, L, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Wrigley, E, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Kitson, P
Newton, G, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Study number / PID

852949 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-852949 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

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Abstract

ArcGIS shapefile of 245polygons providing boundary and attribute data for the 55 registration counties of England and Wales as given in the 1851 census.

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.

Topics

HistoryDemography (population, vital statistics and censuses)

Keywords

DIGITIZED MAP DATAMAPSCENSUS DATABOUNDARIESATTRIBUTESGIS2018

Methodology

Data collection period

01/03/2006 - 28/02/2009

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Not available

Analysis unit

Geographic Unit

Universe

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Sampling procedure

Not available

Kind of data

Geospatial

Data collection mode

This shapefile derives from the 173 digital maps of the boundaries of English and Welsh parishes and their subdivisions produced by Roger Kain and Richard Oliver based on the listing in the 1851 census. The maps were subsequently converted into a single GIS by Burton et al. The Burton et al GIS data were checked, edited and enhanced with extra data from the census by Max Satchell, Tony Wrigley and a small army of research assistants with technical support from Peter Kitson and Gill Newton. Max Satchell checked and in some cases digitised GIS polygon data using a variety of cartographic and documentary sources. Of these the most important were digital scans of the Ordnance Survey first edition 1:2500 and 1:10560 maps from the Landmark Group distributed by Edina , the series of maps of registration districts and sub-districts boundaries prepared for the Registrar General prior to the censuses of 1861, 1871 and 1891 and the description of enumeration district boundaries given in the Census Enumerators Books for the censuses from 1851, 1861 and 1871. The 1:63,360 maps and Census Enumerators Books are held in The National Archives, Kew (TNA, RG 18/3-155, 198-227, HO 107, RG 9, RG 10).

Funding information

Grant number

RES-000-23-1579

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2018

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service. Commercial use of data is not permitted.

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