[Just to avoid confusion, NB the electronic map mentioned below is
NOT a GIS, but primarily a set of Adobe Illustrator files.]

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Historic Parishes of England & Wales
An Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a
Gazetteer and Metadata
ROGER J.P. KAIN - RICHARD R. OLIVER
Colchester History Data Service 2001 [ISBN
0-9540032-0-9]
This book introduces a newly compiled Electronic Map of the
historic (mainly pre-1850) parishes, townships, and other
local administrative areas of England and Wales. The
Electronic Map (available separately) uses as a base the
115 sheets of the Ordnance Survey one inch to one mile
(1:63,360) New Popular Edition maps (1945-8) with National
Grid. The boundaries of about 18,233 places with their
reference numbers are superimposed above the map. Numbers
link places on the map to the full electronic dataset of
metadata which accompanies the maps and contains
information in 11 fields, ranging from the provenance of
the boundaries to data from the 1851 census. The boundary
map and metadata are now available in electronic format
from the History Data Service, The Data Archive, University
of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ (A sample of
the map can be seen at
http://www.ex.ac.uk/geography/research/boundaries.html).
This combination of electronic map, book and metadata will
become an invaluable tool for all those interested in
plotting local-area-based data from the past (population,
agricultural statistics, tax data etc.) from the 14th to
the 19th centuries.
In the book we describe the data, the method of compilation
and how the boundaries and associated metadata can be
accessed. We also include an abbreviated version of the
full Gazetteer/Metadata which serves as a hard copy index
to the places located on the Electronic Map.
We wish to acknowledge the support of the The Leverhulme
Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council which
funded the research.
Orders: Please send orders to History Data Service, UK Data
Archive, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4
3SQ. Telephone enquiries: +44 (0)1206 872326; Fax
enquiries: +44 (0)1206 872003;
Email enquiries: [log in to unmask]; http://hds.essex.ac.uk.
The book price of £12.95 includes postage and packing by
surface mail. Please make cheques etc payable in sterling
to 'University of Essex'.