The GBH project has done a good deal of work on this. Our typology uses 7
levels, where level 1 is a nation state. Many administrative geographies
include two levels between counties and parishes:
ancient: several counties had high-level subdivisions like Ridings and
Rapes as well as hundreds, etc
C19 vital registration: Registration Districts were divided into sub-Districts
ecclesiastical: Archdeaconries were divided into Rural Deaneries
Ed has been having problems getting into our site. Has anyone else?
http://tiger.iso.port.ac.uk:7778/pls/nfp/pargaz.au_ft.home
Best wishes,
Humphrey Southall
At 17:00 21/06/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Ed
>
>In the "places" authority of the Collections Management System we divide
>the UK up as follows:
>
>Nation State = United Kingdom
>1st level political division = England, Scotland etc.
>
>(kingdom/Principality/Province)
>2nd level political division = Government Region in England
> Unitary Authority in Scotland
>& Wales
> District in Northern Ireland
>Former (1974) county = Used in England to group Unitary
> Authorities with the remainder
>of the county
>3rd level political division = Unitary Authority or County in England
> Community in Wales
> Parish in Scotland
>4th level political division = District in England
> (I fudge this because in UA's
>the civil
> is technically level 4)
>5th level political division = Civil Parish /Non-parish area in England
>Settlement = Any distinct settlement which
>has a name
> different to that of its
>Parish
>Locality = Any named part of a settlement
>
>The generic 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. level can be applied world wide. So far
>I haven't needed more than 5 levels. In a world wide context we also
>have a level called "Dependency" which should sit in a separate
>hierarchy under nation state but given the limitations of my software is
>actually squeezed in between Nation state and 1st level PD.
>
>Possibly "administrative" would be better than "political".
>For England I find myself searching and providing output for all the
>levels at some time or other.
>
>Incidentally Magic uses Wards to divide up Non-parish areas (but doesn't
>give their names).
>
>Trevor Reynolds
>Collections Registrar, English Heritage, Room 530, 23 Savile Row, London
>W1S 2ET, United Kingdom
>Tel: +44 (0) 20 7973 3482 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7973 3209
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