Bedfordshire AdmC — Current theme: Agriculture & Land Use

This aspect of the Vision of Britain system presents data from two kinds of source: Agricultural Censuses, which gathered data on the kinds of crops planted and animals raised, usually from farmers; and Land Use Mapping, which actually surveyed land use, field by field. Work on this theme has been funded by DEFRA, the Environment Agency and the Frederick Soddy Trust. Our most detailed information on land use is, in fact, the complete set of the maps published by the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain, included in our 'Historical Mapping' section.

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We hold these detailed statistics for Bedfordshire, which we graph and tabulate here:

Available datasets	Period covered	Variables (number of categories)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by Agricultural Censuses 1922-35	1931	Agricultural Census Crop Categories, 1922- (22)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by Agricultural Censuses 1961-3	1961	Agricultural Census Crop Categories, 1961-3 (29)
Ages of fowls (chickens) as recorded by the Agricultural Census	1961	Agricultural Census Categories of Fowl in 1950 (2)
Ages & usage of fowls (chickens) as recorded by the Agricultural Census	1961	Agricultural Census Categories of Fowl in 1960 (4)
Basic land use categories, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1921 to 1961	Land Areas reported by the Agricultural Census (6)
Categories of Cattle as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1961	Agricultural Census Cattle Categories for 1960-61 (14)
Categories of Cattle as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Cattle Categories for 1920-31 (7)
Categories of horse as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Horse Categories for 1920-31 (5)
Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1921 to 1961	Agricultural Census Categories for Farmland (2)
Farmland Use, as reported by the Land Utilisation Survey	1931	Land Utilisation Survey farmland categories (2)
Farmworkers, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1931	Agricultural Census Categories for Farmworkers in 1930 (6)
Farmworkers, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1931	Agricultural Census Generalised Categories for Farmworkers (5)
Generalised agricultural crop classification for 1866-1970.	1931 to 1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Crop Categories (13)
Generalised Categories for Horses as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Generalised Horse Categories (2)
Generalised Cattle Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931 to 1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Cattle Categories (3)
Generalised Crop Acreages	1931 to 1961	Generalised Crop Categories (6)
Generalised Pig Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Pig Categories (3)
Generalised Sheep Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931 to 1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Sheep Categories (3)
Land Utilisation in the 1930s (LUSGB data)	1931	Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain categories (6)
Ownership of rough grazing land	1961	Agricultural Census Categories for Rough Grazing (2)
Pasture Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1921 to 1961	Agricultural Census Categories for Pasture (2)
Sizes of farms as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Farm Size in four categories (4)
Sizes of farms as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Farm Size Categories for 1920 (7)
Total area, in acres	1931	Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain Total (1)
Total areas of reporting units	1921 to 1961	Total Area (for Farm Census) (1)
Total Farm Workforce, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1931	Variable for total number of farmworkers (1)
Total number of farms & smallholdings	1931	Total Number of Farms (1)
Types of Animal reported by the Agricultural Census	1931 to 1961	Types of animal listed by the Agricultural Census (6)
Types of goat as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1961	Agricultural Census Goat Categories for 1961 (2)
Types of pig as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Pig Categories for 1920-30 (3)
Types of pig as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1961	Agricultural Census Pig Categories for 1940-41 (8)
Types of poultry as recorded by the Agricultural Census.	1931 to 1961	Agricultural Census Poultry Categories (4)
Types of sheep as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1961	Agricultural Census Sheep Categories for 1960-70 (6)
Types of sheep as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Sheep Categories for 1920-30 (4)

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