CORRECTION - Re: New publication - Historic Parishes of England & Wales

Please note that cheques should be made payable to 'University of Essex'
and not 'History Data Service' as previously stated.

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>Historic Parishes of England & Wales
>An Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a
>Gazetteer and Metadata
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>ROGER J.P. KAIN - RICHARD R. OLIVER
>Colchester  History Data Service  2001  [ISBN
>0-9540032-0-9]
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>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.
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>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'.
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