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England and Wales local government districts, 1921
- 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 local government districts, 1921
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/downloads/d634c7d0-75a1-431d-964c-60759fbcb432/file/03cb18aa-373d-4575-a8a8-82fe1f977f69
- Abstract
- These are digital boundaries for the system of districts essentially created by the 1894 Local Government Act and continuing to exist until 1974. England and Wales were divided into County Boroughs, Municipal Boroughs, Urban Districts and Rural Districts. These generally functioned as sub-divisions of Administrative Counties with powers varying according to status, but County Boroughs were large cities with full independence from their County. The County of London was divided into Metropolitan Boroughs, plus the City of London which had the unique status of County Corporate. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1921 Census of Population.
- 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
- Local Government Districts
- history
- administrative units
- districts
- 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
- 1921
- 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
- 1824
- 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
- EW1921_lgdistricts
- 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. (This value is a unique identifier from our gazetteer. The g_unit value can be used to identify the same district 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).)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- G_NAME
- Name of unit at this date.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- NAMESTATUS
- Status of name: P = Preferred or O = Official (N.B. see general notes). (Equates to "G_NAME_STATUS" in gazetteer.
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
- G_LANGUAGE
- Language of name: eng = English, cym = Welsh (N.B. see general notes).
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- UNITTYPE
- Administrative unit type of the unit: LG_DIST = Local Government District (N.B. see general notes). (Equates to "G_UNIT_TYPE" in gazetteer.
The Unittype value is the administrative unit type for this unit at the date given in the file name.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- G_STATUS
- Status of the unit:
RD = Rural District,
UD = Urban District,
CB = County Borough,
MB = Municipal Borough,
MetB = Metropolitan Borough,
CC = County Corporate,
LCC = London County Corporate,
LB = London Borough (N.B. see general notes). (The g_status value is the status for this unit at the date given in the g_year column. All these units are district level and can only have one g_status value at a time.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- NATION
- Nation district within (N.B. see general notes). (District polygons have been assigned to a Nation based on which Ancient County area they fell within. Where a district was split between two counties, it has been assigned to the county which holds the largest part of that district. This is not a direct relationship in the gazetteer, but has been added as a derived value at UKBorders request.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- G_YEAR
- Date of polygon.
- 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
- 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