Title: Administrative Counties of England and Wales 1951
- Polygon data
- 2009
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: September 30, 2009
- Coverage: 1951
Publishers
- University of Portsmouth
Summary
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 1951 Census of Population, and does not separately identify County Boroughs.
Subjects
- Boundaries
- Great Britain
- Counties
- history
- Administrative units
- Administrative Counties
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-6.983857, 2.076794, 55.811185, 49.881199)
- Geometry: BBOX (-6.983857, 2.076794, 55.811185, 49.881199)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Restricted
Citation
Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System, Southall, Humphrey, Aucott, Paula. Administrative Counties of England and Wales 1951. University of Portsmouth. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-gbhgis-ew1951-admcounties
Format
Shapefile