AGSL GeoDiscovery

Local Government Districts of England and Wales, 1971

Description:

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 until 1965. After this date the County Corporate continued to exist, but all other London units were replaced by Greater London which was divided into London Boroughs. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1971 Census of Population. To distinguish between identical place names with different administrative geographies, an Administrative County Boundaries layer may be used to add County name attributes to this layer. Statistical data and other information used in “A Vision of Britain through Time” can be accessed here: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data.

This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.

For full details see License document included with this layer

This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/vs646yq7012

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/vs646yq7012

Language:

eng

Creator:

Southall, Humphrey, Aucott, Paula, Bennett, Chris, University of Portsmouth, and Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System

Publisher:

University of Portsmouth

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

Administrative and political divisions and Boundaries

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

1971

Date Issued:

2009

Spatial Coverage:

England and Wales

Rights:

These data are licensed by Stanford Libraries and are available to Stanford University affiliates for non-commercial activities of research, teaching, educational or scholarly work purposes only. Affiliates are limited to current faculty, staff and students. An End User Licence outlining the full terms of use is included with this download.

Rights Holder:

Copyright © Great Britain Historical GIS Project and the University of Portsmouth. By downloading any data from this site, you agree to the terms contained in the End User Licence.

Access Rights:

Restricted

Format:

Shapefile

Georeferenced:

false