Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 07:41:10 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
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Subject: ENGLAND AND WALES HISTORIC PARISH BOUNDARIES MAP
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PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

The History Data Service of the UK Data Archive
and the Department of Geography, University of Exeter
announce the completion of an ESRC-funded project
to compile an electronic map and gazetteer/metadata
of the historic (pre-1850) boundaries of English and Welsh 
parishes, townships and their divisions.  History Data 
Service has published a book by Roger Kain and Richard 
Oliver which describes the electronic map and its 
compilation and how the boundary data can be accessed.  It 
also includes an abbreviated gazetteer of places located on 
the electronic map.  The book details are:

Roger J P Kain and Richard R Oliver, 
The Historic Parishes of England and Wales:
an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a 
Gazetteer and Metadata
(Colchester, History Data Service, 2001).  
ISBN 0-9540032-0-9.
Price £12.95 post free from History Data Service, UK Data 
Archive, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 
3SQ.

Further details of the book and an order form are in the 
attachment. 

A sample of the map can be seen at: 

http://www.ex.ac.uk/geography/research/boundaries.html




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Roger Kain 
School of Geography and Archaeology, 
University of Exeter,
EXETER EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom
Tel              01392 263333 [+44 1392 263333]
Fax              01392 263342 [+44 1392 263342]
Home Fax  01395 223754  [+44 1395 223754]
http://www.ex.ac.uk/geography/research/maphist.html
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