AGSL GeoDiscovery
Burghs and Districts of Scotland, 1971
- Description:
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These are digital boundaries for the system of burghs and districts of county essentially created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 and continuing to exist until 1975. Scotland was divided into Cities, Large Burghs, Small Burghs and Districts of County (with the exception of the counties of Kinross and Nairn, whose rural areas were not subdivided). These units generally functioned as sub-divisions of Scottish Counties with powers varying according to status, but the four Cities had full independence from the County they were situated within. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1971 Census of Population. 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.
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/xr801bn2282
- Identifier:
- https://purl.stanford.edu/xr801bn2282
- 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:
- Boroughs, Cities and towns, Administrative and political divisions, and Boundaries
- Theme:
- Boundaries
- Temporal Coverage:
- 1971 and 1832-1862
- Date Issued:
- 2017
- Spatial Coverage:
- Scotland
- Rights:
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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