ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Historic Parishes of England and Wales : an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:4348</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigators </H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Kain, R.J.P.<br>Oliver, R.R.<br>University of Exeter. School of Geography and Archaeology<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsor</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Economic and Social Research Council<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> May 2001 </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Kain, R.J.P. and Oliver, R.R., <i> Historic Parishes of England and Wales : an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], May 2001. SN: 4348, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4348-1 </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> R.J.P. Kain and R.R. Oliver </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 4348 . Historic Parishes of England and Wales : an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Kain, R.J.P. , University of Exeter. School of Geography and Archaeology</h5> <h3>Principal Investigators:</h3> <h5>Kain, R.J.P. , University of Exeter. School of Geography and Archaeology</h5> <h5>Oliver, R.R. , University of Exeter. School of Geography and Archaeology</h5> <H3>Sponsor:</H3><H5> Economic and Social Research Council<br> <i class='myclass'> Grant Number:</i> R000222312 </H5> <h3> Other Acknowledgements: </h3> <h5>H. Jones and S. Rouillard, School of Geography and Archaeology, University of Exeter, helped with cartography.<br></h5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>This research project aimed to fill a major lacuna militating against the effective exploitation of many post-medieval to mid-Victorian historical sources collected by local administrative areas: the lack of information on the boundaries of those administrative areas, the so-called 'historic' or 'ancient' parishes of England and Wales. It is known that these districts came into being during the Middle Ages, that the map of these ecclesiastical parishes was essentially complete by the fifteenth century, that these ecclesiastical boundaries were adopted during the early modern period for secular and judicial purposes, and that boundaries remained essentially unchanged until a number of reforms from the mid-nineteenth century onwards reorganised the local administrative geography of the country. The project aimed to reconstruct those boundaries as they were before the post-nineteenth century changes.</h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>The digitised maps cover the whole of England and Wales, and are organised by Ordnance Survey Sheet number. The maps contain a scanned bitmap image of the Ordnance Survey one inch to one mile (1:63,360) New Popular Edition maps (1945-8) with National Grid. They contain the boundaries of some 18,233 places, and are arranged as three electronic 'layers'. The first is a scan of the Ordnance Survey maps stored as grey tone sheet images. This enables Ordnance Survey physical, cultural and place-name content to be readily visible in the background for orientation and general location purposes, while not obscuring the added boundary and reference number material. The second layer consists of the boundaries, stored as solid red lines; and the third layer contains the reference numbers that link places on the map to the gazetteer/metadata dataset that accompanies the maps.<br> <br> The maps are available on CD-ROM in Adobe Illustrator (ISBN:0-9540032-2-5) or Adobe Acrobat (ISBN:0-9540032-1-7) PDF formats. We recommend using the Adobe Illustrator format if you already have the software (as it enables you to edit the maps and select the layers to view). However, the Adobe Acrobat PDF format is perfectly suitable for viewing the maps, and we will supply the necessary reader software.<br> <br> An accompanying book <i>Historic Parishes of England and Wales: An Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata</i> by Roger Kain and Richard Oliver (ISBN:0-9540032-0-9) provides an introduction to the provenance of the maps. It also includes an abbreviated version of the gazetteer/metadata dataset, and a discussion of historical boundaries.<br> <br> This unique combination publication is set to become a standard reference resource and is an invaluable tool for all those interested in plotting local area-based data from the past (population, agricultural, statistics, tax data etc.) from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries.<br> <br> Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.<br> <br> <br></h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'> Time Period Covered:</i> 1500 - 1850 The boundaries were collected for the first half of the nineteenth century, however, since there is little evidence of either new parishes being created or existing ones being divided after circa 1500, a map of parish boundaries for the first half of the nineteenth century should be of value for at least the whole of the modern period . Given the presumption of continuity rather than change in boundary alignments, such a map should also form a useful starting point for the reconstruction of earlier boundaries. <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> 1998 - 2001 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> England and Wales <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> Parishes <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Administrative units (geographical/political) <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Image </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Pre-1850 parishes of England and Wales. </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> No information recorded <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> No sampling (total universe) <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> 18233 (obtained) <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Compilation or synthesis of existing material <br><i class='myclass'>Data Sources: </i> Tithe maps; enclosure maps; published returns of the 1851 Census; drainage maps; estate maps; Ordnance Survey 1:63,360 New Series (1895-9,and 1903-13 editions); Ordnance Survey Seventh Series (1953-74); Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 First Edition; parochial assessment maps; and county mapping by A. Bryant, and Christopher and John Greenwood. </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information.<br/>Available to all users based in HE/FE institutions, for not-for-profit educational and research purposes only. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> History Data Service, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: hds@essex.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 17 May 2001<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> R.J.P. Kain and R.R. Oliver</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>4 January 2012</h5> </body></html>