1851 England and Wales ancient counties

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. 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.

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Geographic Coverage:

GB

Temporal Coverage:

2006-03-01/2009-02-28

Resource Type:

dataset

Available in Data Catalogs:

UK Data Service

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