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Summary |
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Vice-Counties Lookup Table |
| NDAD reference |
CRDA/17/DS/1/1/10 |
| Scope & content |
Acts as a lookup table for values entered in the VCOUNTY field in the VCOUNTY table, providing the name of the Vice-County.
"The Vice-county System of Great Britain was devised in 1852 by Hewett Cotterell Watson as a means of graphically representing the distribution of plants. Watson defined 112 vice-counties of approximately equal areas based on sub-divisions of counties;Vice-county boundaries do not change like political boundaries so they allow for continuity both in interpreting historical records and for passing on the 'territory' between successive county recorders. The Vice-county System was adopted by the forerunners of the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) as a basis for organising their network of recorders and soon became popular for all forms of wildlife recording. Vice-counties remain the key organisational unit for the BSBI and many other national and local wildlife recording schemes. "
JNCC "Digitised Watsonian Vice-county maps - Defining a new standard", 2003.
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Identity statement |
| Table name |
VICE_COUNTIES |
| Number of records |
113 |
| SIZE of file (KB) |
1.94 |
| Maximum record size (bytes) |
28 |
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Description |
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Fields |
| Number of fields |
2 |
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| Field name: |
VCOUNTY_CODE |
| Data type: |
Variable Length String |
| Original description: |
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Code for the Vice-County This is the key to the file. {Maximum length 4} |
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[not permitted for this field] |
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This field forms a 1 - Many relationship with the following tables: via the field VCOUNTY |
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This field may take any value appropriate to its datatype. |
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| Field name: |
VCOUNTY_NAME |
| Data type: |
Variable Length String |
| Original description: |
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Name of the Vice-County {Maximum length 25}. The breakdown of the country into vice-counties (the Watsonian Vice County System) derives from work undertaken by HC Watson around 1852 while writing a flora of Britain (Cybele Brittanica). He divided the country into 38 sub provinces and 112 vice counties. (Vice county 113 is the Channel Islands). |
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This field may take any value appropriate to its datatype. |
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* maximum list length 500
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Table details: CRDA/17/DS/1/1/10
