uk county boundary files

Imp a retired Geography teacher who has reinvented himself doing English
surname research.
I am in desperate need of county boundary files, either pre or post 1974.
Does anyone know of a source? I am using Mapinfo.

Howard

Howard,

I dont think you'll find a 'free' version as the Ordnance Survey
creates this data and includes it with their BoundaryLine product. The
OS do have some raster images that you could use in MapInfo
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/outlinemaps/index.html

I also thought that MapInfo came with some sample data that included
county boundaries, though I could be mistaken.

Greg.

wrote:

You may also want to look at

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/index.php?p=familyname

A project done by University College London on surname distribution both
current and historic in the UK.



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