On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:50 -0800, Tyler Bell wrote: > Short summary: The most significant changes happened in 1974. There > is significant change between the present counties and 1974; less so > between those leading up to 1974 and the first edition OS maps, but > still enough to avoid basing research conclusions on. I was crying > out for this dataset for some placename spatial analysis back in '95; > I still don't know of a public resource sadly. > > -- TB >
Thanks Tyler and Barry. The historic counties trust stuff is good. It's provides a great outline of the development and changes of the county boundaries, and the confusions about different types of county boundaries. Pity their historical mapping doesn't yet cover the entire UK. It seems they're using the OS First edition maps as their primary source. Are there scanned copies of these available in the public domain (or otherwise freely distributable)? As far as boundaries are concerned, I'm not particularly interested in anything after 1888. I'm trying to tie historical events/places to then current counties. Regards, Tim Bowden > > On Jan 4, 2008 1:29 PM, Barry Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The best source i know of is > > http://www.historiccountiestrust.co.uk/ > > > > doesnt (yet) have all counties. But is working towards it. > > > > It would be nice to get a public dataset :) > > > > As to changes, I dont think they changed that much - in recent times, > > but over the years they have changed, the above site should have more > > about this > > > > > > On 04/01/2008, Tim Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm looking for a "reasonably" accurate source of polygon data for the > > > boundaries of the historical counties of Great Britain. I'm aware of > > > the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System but it > > > seems the data there is only available to academics for academic use. > > > Are there any other sources that anyone can point me towards? > > > > > > As a point of interest, did the county boundaries change much over time? > > > I know the current LGA county boundaries are in a state of constant > > > flux, but I'm only really interested in the historic county boundaries. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Tim Bowden > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Geowanking mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > > > > > > -- > > Barry > > > > - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
