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Title: Parliamentary Constituencies of Wales, 1832-1862

• Southall, Humphrey
• Aucott, Paula
• Bennett, Chris
• University of Portsmouth
• Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System

Dates

• Issued: 2009
• Coverage: 2009

Publishers

• University of Portsmouth

Summary

These are digital boundaries for the system of Constituencies which were and are the units from which Members of Parliament are elected, and which they then represent. The system of county and borough constituencies has early origins but was not systematically mapped until the reforms introduced by the Representation of the People Act in 1832. This file represents the system as it was established following the Boundary Commission Report of 1832. The next Boundary Commission was not until 1868, but slightly earlier eliminations of rotten boroughs mean that a separate set of digital boundaries for constituencies in England and Wales has been created for the period 1862-8. 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. Great Britain Historical GIS Project. (2009). Parliamentary Constituencies of Wales, 1832-1862. University of Portsmouth. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/cd037jv4035 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 For full details see License document included with this layer This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Boundaries
• Wales
• Parliament
• Election districts
• Administrative and political divisions
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-5.669578, -2.64879, 53.428873, 51.379355)
• Geometry: BBOX (-5.669578, -2.64879, 53.428873, 51.379355)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Southall, Humphrey, Aucott, Paula, Bennett, Chris, University of Portsmouth, Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System. Parliamentary Constituencies of Wales, 1832-1862. University of Portsmouth. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/cd037jv4035

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• English