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Administrative Counties of England and Wales 1921
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System
- Originator
- Southall, Humphrey
- Originator
- Aucott, Paula
- Publication Date
- 20090930
- Title
- Administrative Counties of England and Wales 1921
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
- Publisher
- University of Portsmouth
- Online Linkage
- https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-gbhgis-ew1921-admcounties
- Abstract
- These are digital boundaries for the system of counties essentially created by the 1889 Local Government Act and continuing to exist until 1974. Their initial primary focus was the administration of education. During the twentieth century, they can be treated as aggregates of local government districts, although note that administratively County Boroughs were independent of the counties they were geographically part of. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1921 Census of Population, and does not separately identify County Boroughs.
- Purpose
- The mission of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project is to provide a systematic spatial framework for historical information about Britain.
- 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
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- 1921
- Bounding Box
- West
- -6.983857
- East
- 2.076794
- North
- 55.811185
- South
- 49.881199
- Theme Keyword
- Boundaries
- Counties
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Theme Keyword
- boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Theme Keyword
- history
- Administrative units
- Administrative Counties
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- Great Britain
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- To promote awareness of our work and to provide a public benefit, the University of Portsmouth and the Great Britain Historical GIS makes these county boundaries, but not other more detailed boundaries, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. This does not mean they are in the public domain: (1) You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that the University of Portsmouth or the Great Britain Historical GIS endorses you or your use. (2) The share-alike requirement means that anything you publish using these boundaries must also be under a CC BY-SA license. In particular, if you use these boundaries to map your attribute data, you must make the attribute data available under that license. For unrestricted commercial licensing, contact gbhgis@port.ac.uk.
- 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
- None planned
- 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
- Native Data Set Environment
- Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.0.10450
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- Unknown
- Logical Consistency Report
- Unknown
- Completeness Report
- Unknown
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- Unknown
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System
- Originator
- Southall, Humphrey
- Originator
- Aucott, Paula
- Publication Date
- 2009
- Title
- Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
- Publisher
- University of Portsmouth
- Source Scale Denominator
- Unknown
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2009
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- Dataset source
- 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
- 62
- 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_admcounties
- Entity Type Definition
- administrative county boundaries of Great Britain from 1921
- Entity Type Definition Source
- GBHGIS
- 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 unitThis value is a unique identifier from our gazetteer. The g_unit value can be used to identify the same unit in different years even if the name/boundary/status of the unit has changed.
- Definition Source
- GBHGIS
- G_NAME
- Name of unit at this date
- Definition Source
- GBHGIS
- NAMESTATUS
- Status of name: P = Preferred or O = OfficialEquates to "G_NAME_STATUS" in gazetteer.As far as possible all unit names are the Preferred English name at the date given in the file name. 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.
- P
- Preferred
- Definition Source
- GBHGIS
- G_LANGUAGE
- Language of name: eng = English, cym = Welsh
- eng
- English
- Definition Source
- GBHGIS
- UNITTYPE
- Administrative unit type of the unit: ADM_CNTY = Administrative County, PR_CNTY = Poor Law County/Registration County, ANC_CNTY = Ancient County
- ADM_CNTY
- Administrative County
- Definition Source
- GBHGIS
- IM_AUTH
- Source of information
- Definition Source
- GBHGIS
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Distributor
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Online Access
- http://hgl.harvard.edu/
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20200304
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Contact Position
- Geospatial Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- Harvard Library
- Address
- Library Technology Services
- Address
- 90 Mount Auburn Street
- City
- Cambridge
- State or Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 617-495-2417
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 617-496-0440
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- hgl_ref@hulmail.harvard.edu
- Hours of Service
- Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST-USA
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
