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I thought this might be of general interest. Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:24:51 +0000 From: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: "From: Local-History list" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: New publication - Historic Parishes of England & Wales Picked up from the lis-maps list. Might be of interest to some people? Roger Fern. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Priority: NORMAL Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:06:02 +0100 Reply-to: lis-maps - a forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship <[log in to unmask]> From: Antonio da Cruz <[log in to unmask]> Subject: New publication - Historic Parishes of England & Wales To: [log in to unmask] Posted on behalf of Roger Kain and Richard Oliver. If you would like this information as an attachment including an order form please e-mail Richard at <[log in to unmask]> ---------------------------------------------------- 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 'History Data Service'. ---------------------- -------------------------------------- Roger W. Fern, 27 Ladybank, Chapel Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE5 1UJ. (0191) 267-3074 [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------