Land of Britain | About this site

The Land of Britain web site was created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project, based at the University of Portsmouth, with funding from the Frederick Soddy Trust. Our main web site, A Vision of Britain through Time covers the whole of Britain, but not at this level of detail. Contact us at gbhgis@port.ac.uk.

We are deeply grateful to Rex Walford, director of the Land Use UK Survey, for letting us draw on the teacher's pack he created with Tony Binns, featuring Brighton area maps from the 1960s and 1990s survey, and to the copyright holder for the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain for allowing us to re-publish Dudley Stamp's maps. We thank the British Library of Political and Economic Science for scanning the Stamp field survey sheets, and the British Library for scanning the Ordnance Survey First Series sheet.

The data from the 1941/2 National Farm Survey forms part of class MAF 32 in the National Archives, with maps showing farm boundaries in class MAF 73. Parish-level farm census data are preserved in National Archives class MAF 68, but the data used here come from transcriptions originally made by Professor J.T. Coppock of Edinburgh University and now available from the UK Data Archive (SN 3980: Agricultural Census Parish Summaries, 1877 and 1931).

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