Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages |
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Authors: | Deborah Jean Warner |
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Institution: | National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
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Abstract: | Abstract The Ordnance Survey's Boundary Survey, carried out between 1841 and 1888, was a major undertaking which resulted in the local administrative boundaries of the whole of Great Britain being reliably mapped for the first time. This was not achieved by imposition but by the use of local knowledge of boundaries, thus making permanent a communal memory of administrative geography and rendering it globally accessible through maps. The Boundary Survey aided the reform of local government areas, a process which started during the same period and provided derived data for the burgeoning collection of statistics in the nineteenth century. |
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Keywords: | Great Britain Ireland nineteenth century public boundaries Ordnance Survey Boundary Survey boundary delimitation topographical maps local government reform |
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