Index Villaris, 1680
Description
INDEX VILLARIS: or, An Alphabetical Table of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, and private seats in England and Wales was first published by John Adams in 1680. This dataset is a transcription of all 24,000 entries in Index Villaris: each title as printed, Adams's county and hundred as spelled, his latitude and longitude, and the symbols by which he classified each place. Beside the transcript, an editorial layer gives our best identification of the place each entry means: its historic county (with a Chapman code), the hundred meant (linked to Wikidata and to the Vision of Britain unit where one exists), a point, and links to CAMPOP Places, Wikidata and GB1900. Every city and market town is typed as such and linked to its CAMPOP Places identifier. The two layers are kept apart, and every editorial change since v2.0.4 is listed, with its basis, in corrections.csv.
The points are OpenStreetMap nodes chosen by hand for each place (© OpenStreetMap contributors, used as Geocoding Results under the OSMF Geocoding Guideline), or for corrected places the coordinates of their Wikidata item. A second set of coordinates applies a thin plate spline transformation to Adams's own figures. The data are available as CSV and as GeoJSON in the Linked Places Format.
The dataset can be viewed on an interactive map and as reconstituted county tables through the GitHub repository here.
Files
docuracy/IndexVillaris1680-v2.1.0.zip
Additional details
Related works
- Is derived from
- Book: https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/eebo-ocm12608556e (URL)
- Dataset: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright (URL)
- References
- Dataset: https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/transport/data/towns.html (URL)
- Dataset: https://w3id.org/campop/place/ (URL)
Software
- Repository URL
- https://github.com/docuracy/IndexVillaris1680
References
- Wikipedia contributors. "John Adams (cartographer)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Accessed February 14, 2024.
- Heawood, Edward. "John Adams and His Map of England." The Geographical Journal 79, no. 1 (1932): 37-44. Accessed April 30, 2021. doi:10.2307/1784518.
- Taylor, E. G. R. "Notes on John Adams and Contemporary Map Makers." The Geographical Journal 97, no. 3 (1941): 182-84. Accessed April 30, 2021. doi:10.2307/1787329.
- Ravenhill, William. "John Adams, His Map of England, Its Projection, and His Index Villaris of 1680." The Geographical Journal 144, no. 3 (1978): 424-37. Accessed April 30, 2021. doi:10.2307/634819.
- Mostern, Ruth, and Humphrey Southall. "Gazetteers Past: Placing Names from Antiquity to the Internet." In Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers, edited by Mostern Ruth, Southall Humphrey, and Berman Merrick Lex, 15-25. Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. Accessed April 30, 2021. doi:10.2307/j.ctt2005zq7.6.