AddressGB: Geo-coded British Census Addresses, 1851-1911

Links c. 121 million individuals from historic British census data for 1851 to 1911 (I-CeM) to modern road data (OS Open Roads) and historic street/placenames (GB1900).

Enables researchers to map historic British census data at street and property level. This provides a much higher spatial resolution than existing approaches that aggregate individuals to parishes or census registration sub-districts.

For full documentation see the README. For the method, see CensusGeocoder. 

For each census year (e.g. England & Wales, 1851), it contains the following files:

GIS Data

a modified version of GB1900, with GB1900 points assigned to historic administrative boundaries (gb1900.tsv)

a modified version of OS Open Roads, with roads segmented by relevant historic administrative boundaries (osopenroads.tsv)

Lookup Data

a lookup file linking individuals in I-CeM to the modified version of GB1900 (gb1900_recidlkup.tsv)

a lookup file linking individuals in I-CeM to the modified version of OS Open Roads (osopenroads_recidlkup.tsv)

Metadata

A metadata file for each file type, specifying field type and number of records.

Licence / Other Info

AddressGB contains modified data from GB1900. It acknowledges the Great Britain Historical GIS, the GB1900 partners and volunteers, and makes the data available on the same Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike Licence as per the GB1900 project site.

AddressGB contains no named individuals and no addresses from I-CeM. It only contains the unique person identifiers (RecID) to link entries to I-CeM. For more information on I-CeM, see https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/icem/.