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England and Wales ancient parishes, 1831
- Identification Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- GBHGIS, University of Portsmouth, Research Project
- Publication Date
- 20090930
- Title
- England and Wales ancient parishes, 1831
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/downloads/8e14e9a5-94c4-461e-a4e1-ae670697bd76/file/ec092f07-1512-4d44-88a2-91fb96c551be
- Abstract
- The system of Ancient Parishes was not defined by central government, but grew up over the centuries starting in Saxon times. By origin it was an entirely ecclesiastical system, but it became the main geography for a variety of statistical reporting, partly because the main local sources for many government inquiries were the parish priests of the Church of England. Its origins mean there was no central record of the system, and boundary mapping of the whole country by the Ordnance Survey was not completed until the late 19th century, so there is room for substantial debate about what parishes actually existed at a given date. This file was constructed around the county-by-county parish listings of the 1831 Census of Population. Under the Ancient Parish system, many parishes especially in the north of England consisted of a mother parish based on the main settlement, plus surrounding Townships, Chapelries and hamlets (many of which later became separate Civil Parishes): the file makes no attempt to represent those subdivisions, only the overall parishes.
- Purpose
- For displaying historical boundaries with GIS software.
- Supplemental Information
- 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
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- Publication date.
- Time Instant
- 20090930
- Bounding Box
- West
- -6.983857
- East
- 2.076794
- North
- 55.811185
- South
- 49.881199
- Theme Keyword
- history
- ancient parishes
- parishes
- administrative units
- boundary
- boundaries
- administrative boundaries
- administrative divisions
- historical boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Theme Keyword
- boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Place Keyword
- United Kingdom
- England
- Wales
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Temporal Keyword
- 1831
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- Data are made freely available to UK educational and research users for non-commercial purposes via a download system requiring membership of the U.K. Access and Management Federation, at http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data/. Data are being made available, for a fee and for non-commercial purposes, to individual researchers and to U.K. public and charitable bodies, via the University of Portsmouth online shop at http://onlinestore.port.ac.uk/. Other users and those needing a licence covering commercial use should contact the Great Britain Historical GIS at gbhgis@port.ac.uk. Note that these restrictions are necessary partly because exclusive licenses already exist covering use of these data for certain specific commercial purposes.
- Use Restrictions
- Copies of the boundary data may not be passed on to other users; each user must obtain their own copy of the data from the University of Portsmouth or from a data library authorised to distribute, who are required to maintain a record of users to whom the data have been supplied. Data may be used to create paper maps, non-georeferenced raster images or PDF files, provided they include a copyright notice and acknowledgment. Geo-referenced vector data in any format may not be disseminated by any method, including online downloads or data feeds. For full details see copyright license included with authorised copies of the data.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Unknown
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- University of Portsmouth
- Delivery Point
- Department of Geography. Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace,
- City
- Portsmouth
- Postal Code
- PO1 3HE
- Country
- GB
- Contact Telephone
- +44 (0)23 9284 2500
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- gbhgis@port.ac.uk
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- University of Portsmouth
- Delivery Point
- Department of Geography. Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace,
- City
- Portsmouth
- Postal Code
- PO1 3HE
- Country
- GB
- Contact Telephone
- +44 (0)23 9284 2497
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- humphrey.southall@port.ac.uk
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- Delivery Point
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- City
- Princeton
- State
- NJ
- Postal Code
- 08544
- Country
- US
- Contact Telephone
- 609-258-1097
- Credit
- University of Portsmouth
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.0.3348
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- GT-polygon composed of chains
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 10995
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Planar
- Map Projection
- Map Projection Name
- British National Grid
- Transverse Mercator
- Scale Factor at Central Meridian
- 0.9996012717
- Longitude of Central Meridian
- -2.0
- Latitude of Projection Origin
- 49.0
- False Easting
- 400000.0
- False Northing
- -100000.0
- Planar Coordinate Information
- Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
- coordinate pair
- Coordinate Representation
- Abscissa Resolution
- 0.000000002219846528817016
- Ordinate Resolution
- 0.000000002219846528817016
- Planar Distance Units
- meter
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D OSGB 1936
- Ellipsoid Name
- Airy 1830
- Semi-major Axis
- 6377563.396
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 299.3249646
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- EW1831_parishes
- Entity Type Definition
- Polygons representing historical administrative divisions.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- Esri
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- Esri
- G_UNIT
- Unique identifier for unit. (These polygons include a "g_unit" value. This value is a unique identifier from our gazetteer.
The g_unit value can be used to identify the same parish in different years even if the name/boundaries/status of the unit has changed.
It also can be used to link to historical statistics deposited by the data creator at the UK Data Archive (University of Essex), hence no statistics and other superfluous attribute data is included in these boundary files.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- G_NAME
- Name of unit at this date.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- G_LANGUAGE
- Language of name: eng = English, cym = Welsh (N.B. see general notes).
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- G_YEAR
- Date of polygon.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- NATION
- Nation parish within (N.B. see general notes). (Parish polygons have been assigned to a Nation based on which Ancient County they were contained within, rather than which Ancient County they were in. Where a parish was split between two counties, it has been assigned to the Nation which holds the largest part of that parish. This is not a direct relationship in the gazetteer, but has been added as a derived value.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- IM_AUTH
- Source of information.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- IM_NOTE
- Further information on source.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- NAMESTATUS
- Status of name: P = Preferred or O = Official (Equates to "G_NAME_STATUS" in gazetteer, see general notes) (As far as possible all unit names are the Preferred English name at the date given in the g_year column. Where this was unavailable they have been assigned their Preferred Welsh name in that year.
Where the name status is given as 'O' this indicates it was the preferred official name at this particular date, although another name later replaced it as the preferred name.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- UNITTYPE
- Type of unit: PAR_UNIT = parish-level unit.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- NATION_ID
- Unique identifier for nation.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- NOTES
- Notes relating to specific polygon(s).
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- Distribution Information
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20170427
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- University of Portsmouth
- Contact Person
- Paula Aucott
- Contact Position
- Senior Research Associate
- Contact Address
- Address
- Department of Geography, Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace,
- City
- Portsmouth
- Postal Code
- PO1 3HE
- Country
- GB
- Contact Voice Telephone
- +44 (0)23 9284 2500
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- paula.aucott@port.ac.uk
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998