1851 England and Wales ancient counties

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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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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-852942
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=861a03935bfea33fcf608452077e18b9835750fb5dd36af1538a901ee087f2ce
Provenance
Creator Satchell, M, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; Shaw-Taylor, L, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; Wrigley, E, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; Kitson, P; Newton, G, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2018
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council; The Leverhulme Trust; The British Academy
Rights M. Satchell, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. L.M.W.S. Shaw-Taylor, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. E.A. Wrigley, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. H. Southall, University of Southampton. N. Burton, University of Southampton. R.J.P Kain, School of Advanced Study, University of London. R.R. Oliver, University of Exeter
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Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage United Kingdom