This is a spatial dataset containing the boundaries of the Watsonian Vice Counties across Wales. This is a 3rd Party dataset supplied to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) under an OS Open Data Licence.

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for the historical administrative counties with county boroughs in England and Wales as at Census Day 1921.The boundaries available are: (BGC) Generalised resolution - clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark).Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

REST URL of WFS Server – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/ADCTYCB_JUN_1921_EW_BGC/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilities

REST URL of Map Server – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/ADCTYCB_JUN_1921_EW_BGC/MapServer

REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/ADCTYCB_JUN_1921_EW_BGC/FeatureServer

The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System (MTS). The MTS represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Edges refer to the linear topological primitives that make up the MTS. The All Lines shapefile contains linear features such as roads, railroads, and hydrography. Additional attribute data associated with the linear features found in the All Lines shapefile are available in relationship (.dbf) files that users must download separately. The All Lines shapefile contains the geometry and attributes of each topological primitive edge. Each edge has a unique TIGER/Line identifier (TLID) value.

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for the historical countries in England and Wales as at Census Day 1921.The boundaries available are: (BGC) Generalised resolution - clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark).Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights. REST URL of WFS Server – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/CTRY_DEC_1921_EW_BFC_Eng_Excl_Monmouthshire_V2/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilities REST URL of Map Server – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/CTRY_DEC_1921_EW_BFC_Eng_Excl_Monmouthshire_V2/MapServer REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/CTRY_DEC_1921_EW_BFC_Eng_Excl_Monmouthshire_V2/FeatureServerNote re Monmouthshire:According to the list of counties included within the regions of England of Wales listed in Table VII of the General Report, Monmouthshire is classed as a Welsh county. To that end, the data provided for regions includes Monmouthshire within the “Welsh counties”.However, for the purposes of the 1921 Census outputs, Monmouthshire was generally included within England. In some of the printed tables, figures were given for both “England including Monmouthshire” and “England excluding Monmouthshire”, likewise for Wales. These additional breakdowns are not being included within the digitised data at this time and for the purposes of dissemination on Nomis, Monmouthshire has been included within England only to align with the majority of printed tables. As such, any user aggregated data from regions to country will not match figures given for England and for Wales on Nomis.

REST URL of WFS Server – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/RGN_DEC_1921_EN_BFC_Excl_Monmouthshire/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilities REST URL of Map Server – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/RGN_DEC_1921_EN_BFC_Excl_Monmouthshire/MapServer REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/RGN_DEC_1921_EN_BFC_Excl_Monmouthshire/FeatureServer Note re Monmouthshire:According to the list of counties included within the regions of England of Wales listed in Table VII of the General Report, Monmouthshire is classed as a Welsh county. To that end, the data provided for regions includes Monmouthshire within the “Welsh counties”.However, for the purposes of the 1921 Census outputs, Monmouthshire was generally included within England. In some of the printed tables, figures were given for both “England including Monmouthshire” and “England excluding Monmouthshire”, likewise for Wales. These additional breakdowns are not being included within the digitised data at this time and for the purposes of dissemination on Nomis, Monmouthshire has been included within England only to align with the majority of printed tables. As such, any user aggregated data from regions to country will not match figures given for England and for Wales on Nomis.

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for the historical County Boroughs in England and Wales as at Census Day 1921.Version 2 note: Includes York, City and County Of CB (H06201859).The boundaries available are: (BGC) Generalised resolution - clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark).Contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

REST URL of WFS Server – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/County_Boroughs_December_1921_Boundaries_EW_BGC_V2/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilities

REST URL of MapServer – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/County_Boroughs_(December_1921)_Boundaries_EW_BGC_V2/MapServer

REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/CB_JUN_1921_EW_BGC_V2/FeatureServer

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for County Unitary Authorities in England and Wales as at December 2014.

The boundaries available are:

These digital boundaries were created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project and form part of the Great Britain Historical Database, which contains a wide range of geographically-located statistics, selected to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain, generally at sub-county scales.

They represent the boundaries of Registration Counties in England and Wales as in use at the date of each Census of Population between 1851 and 1911, 1911 being the last census to report extensively on these units.

A PDF map that shows the counties and unitary authorities in the United Kingdom as at 1 April 2023. (File Size - 583 KB)

These geolocated datasets derive from annotations of Christopher Saxton's County Maps of England & Wales, annotations of published volumes of John Leland's Itineraries in Wales, and annotations of Wenceslaus Hollar's vignettes intended for publication in Britannia. Please see the GitHub repository for details of the sources used and visualisation of their geographic scope.

In the middle of 2001 Roger Kain and Richard Oliver, from the University of Exeter, published a substantial work entitled Historic Parishes of England and Wales: Electronic Map - Gazetteer- Metadata. This was the final product of a project aimed at locating and mapping the boundaries of parish and sub-parish units of the mid-nineteenth century. The authors published the results in a series of electronic maps supplied on CD-ROM. Each one of these 115 maps contain a scanned 1”:1 mile OS New Popular Series map, overlain by the boundaries. A reference number can be found in each of the polygons that can then be used to look up information about that parish in gazetteer in an accompanying book.

A major limitation of this work is that although the boundaries are in digital form, they are divided into 115 tiles, none of which have any spatial co-ordinate information inherent in them. This means that although the maps are invaluable as a reference tool, they can not be used together within a GIS to select, analyse and present historic information.

We have therefore created a single digital map of the boundaries to provide a single, continuous coverage of polygons, each of which contain the information provided by Kain and Oliver in their accompanying book. This information includes the parish name, Ancient County, and a reference number that coincides with entries for that parish in the 1851 census report.

It is recommended that users also order disc 1 of study 4348; Historic Parishes of England and Wales : an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

A county is a sub-national division of a country and where introduced by the Normans after the conquest of England in 1066, although a similar Anglo-Saxon administrative system of 'Shires' where in existence prior to this. Counties where usually overseen by a sheriff (Shire Reeve) who was appointed by the crown to collect taxes, raise militia and keep the peace though the administration of law. The implementation of the county system in Wales is a little complicated. In 1284 the Statute of Rhuddlan created six sheriffdoms or 'Shires' in Wales; Anglesey, Caernarfon, Merioneth, Flint, Carmarthen and Cardigan known as the Principality of Wales. The remainder of Wales consisted of the two Royal Lordships of Glamorgan and Pembroke and various Marcher Lordships which often made use of the earlier Commote and Cantref boundaries. The Marcher Lordships were abolished by the Laws in Wales Acts (1535) and the five new counties of Denbighshire, Monmouthshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire were created to replace them. This created a total of thirteen historical counties in Wales. Some townships usually considered a part of Wales were assigned to Shropshire and Herefordshire and minor changes to the boundaries were made in the Laws in Wales Act (1542). The thirteen historic counties remained in use until the Local Government Act 1972, the implementation of which in 1974 saw the abolishment of the historic counties and the creation of eight new administrative counties, Clwyd, Dyfed, Gwent, Gwynedd, Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan, West Glamorgan and Powys. These themselves where replaced in 1996 by the creation of twenty two Unitary Authorities (or 'Principal Areas'), although the former eight counties still have ceremonial significance.

These county maps were produced by the Department of Lands [Agency 3527 1856- ] and have been annotated with a variety of information.


(SR Map Nos.52704-07, X1359-61). 7 maps.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

The parish (from Latin 'Paroecia') is probably one of the most recognisable 'old' administrative boundary that many people are familiar with. The parish has always been associated with the administration of church and other ecclesiastical matters. The implementation of parishes as we would understand them today where imported into Wales by the Normans after the 1081. However many agree that there was likely a pre-existing system of church administration prior to the arrival of the Normans which may have been reused or provided a solid foundation for the Anglo-French system. It is from 12th century onwards that a comprehensive picture emerges. Ecclesiastical taxation records in 1254 and 1291 preserve parish names and many of these have continued up to the present day, albeit with some boundary changes.Ecclesiastical parishes were the main unit for tithe and Poor law payments, but by the late nineteenth century the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866 facilitated the need for the creation of 'Civic Parishes' which became the main administrative unit. In many instances these were based on the same boundaries as the ecclesiastical parishes, but changes were made to reflect the needs of growing urbanisation and populations rather than ecclesiastical requirements. The civil parishes where replaced in 1974 following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1972. This would see the civil parishes replaced by 'Communities' which are still in use today, although boundaries and names frequently continue to change. This dataset was created in Esri ArcPro 3.2.1 and reflects the historical hundred boundaries as recorded on the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey 6" to the Mile County Series Mapping surveyed for Wales between 1888 and 1913.

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for County Unitary Authorities in England and Wales as at December 2014.

The boundaries available are:

This dataset represents the spatial boundaries of wastewater services provided by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water. This dataset is critical for understanding the division of service areas among different companies within the United Kingdom.  

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for County Unitary Authorities in England and Wales as at December 2014.

The boundaries available are:

These maps and plans relate to various aspects of planning and development within New South Wales. They consist of a large number of maps and plans of Planning Schemes/Amending Schemes, and Interim Development Orders and Other Instruments prior to the Environment Planning Act, 1979 (submitted by Shire, Municipal and County Councils); and maps and plans relating to various aspects of planning which were produced by the Department or its predecessors, other departments, Councils or individuals (includes such aspects or categories as expressways, green belts, railways, growth centres, electoral districts, public utilities and study areas etc.).

Planning Schemes/Amending Schemes and Interim Development Orders fall into two categories: Regional and Local. By Regional is meant maps pertaining to Cumberland County, Northumberland County, and Illawarra District. By Local is meant maps pertaining to specific shires and municipalities.

Maps of Planning Schemes/Amending Schemes are required to be submitted by statute (submitted by Shire, Municipal or County Councils). Additional maps may consist of scheme maps amended, or certified to, by the Minister; scheme maps as exhibited by the Minister; diagrams indicating recommended amendments arising from objections received thereto; diagrams of recommendations to the Minister; scheme maps as approved and signed by the Minister.

Maps relating to Interim Development Orders or Other Instruments may consist of suspension maps; maps submitted with application for Interim Development Order; Interim Development Control maps; diagrams of representations to the Minister; and maps approved (signed) by the Minister.

Planning Schemes as submitted by Councils sometimes contain supplementary maps to the scheme maps, such as land use, property, communications and public utility maps.

There are some aerial photographs among this material.

(SR Map Nos. 39078-113, 52869-54327, 54937-60; X1384-500, X2501-04). 1,640 maps.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

National and subnational mid-year population estimates for the UK and its constituent countries by administrative area, age and sex (including components of population change, median age and population density).

Boundary-Line is a specialist 1:10 000 scale boundaries dataset. It contains all levels of electoral and administrative boundaries, from district, wards and civil parishes (or communities) up to parliamentary, assembly and European constituencies. The information is represented as vector digital data. The boundary information is updated twice a year, in May and October. The May release contains the boundaries that have become live in the first week of May, in the year of release. The October release contains the May boundaries plus additional information. Boundary-Line files and sub-levels includes: County - The named county, district, district ward, civil parish, county electoral division (ED); European constituencies - The named European region; Greater London Authority - The Greater London Authority, Greater London Authority Assembly constituency, London borough, London borough ward; Metropolitan districts - The named metropolitan district, metropolitan district ward, civil parish where appropriate; Scottish parliamentary electoral region - The named Scottish Parliamentary electoral region, Scottish parliamentary constituency; Unitary authorities- The named unitary authority, unitary authority ward or unitary authority ED as appropriate, civil parish where appropriate, together with community in Wales; Welsh Assembly Electoral Region - The named Welsh Assembly electoral region, Welsh assembly constituency; Westminster constituencies - The named Westminster constituency; Extent of the realm - Low water mark or seaward boundary extension. Other attribution includes: High water mark; Unique identifiers - For administrative areas, polygons and links; Area measurements; Definitive names; Census codes