[Talk-GB] Looking for places to map?

[Steve Doerr]

On 23/02/2010 16:23, Peter Reed wrote:
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> I haven't tried to collect parish boundaries yet, but it's an obvious 
> step forward.
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I'm not sure I'm necessarily thinking rigidly in terms of parishes. What 
we're actually trying to replicate is the area for which your population 
statistics are being reported, which might be a parish, might be a group 
of parishes that form part of a recognized 'settlement' (as you put it 
in your preamble). In fact, in the case of urban areas, civil parishes 
were abolished for administrative purposes a long time ago. I'm not sure 
that there is any sense in which (to use the Medway example again) the 
towns of Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham can be said to have a 
separate administrative existence today: the unitary authority is 
presumably divided into wards, but there are probably several of these 
for each of those historical towns. Is there any definition of the areas 
for which population is being quoted in your source? I feel we're almost 
dealing with an analogous unit to the 'ceremonial county' (as opposed to 
the administrative one), but at a lower level - a  recognized town or 
village unit within an administrative unit.

-- 
Steve
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