England and Wales registration districts, 1851

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Description:: These are digital boundaries for the system of districts used in England and Wales for vital registration and also for the administration and reporting of the Census of Population. They were largely but not always identical to the system of Poor Law Unions. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1851 Census of Population.
Identifier:: ark:/88435/rv042x46q
Creator:: GBHGIS, University of Portsmouth, Research Project
Provider:: Princeton
Resource Class:: Datasets
Resource Type:: Polygon
Subject:: history, administrative units, registration districts, districts, Poor Law, poor law unions, boundary, Boundaries, administrative boundaries, administrative divisions, and historical boundaries
Theme:: Boundaries
Temporal Coverage:: 1851, 2009, and 2009
Date Issued:: 2009
Spatial Coverage:: United Kingdom, England, and Wales
Access Rights:: Restricted
Format:: Shapefile

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