Total Population

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Year Population 10 years earlier Current Total Population
1801 1,472 Show data context
1811 1,472 Show data context 2,423 Show data context
1821 2,423 Show data context 3,931 Show data context
1831 3,931 Show data context 10,280 Show data context
1841 10,280 Show data context 14,942 Show data context
1851 14,942 Show data context 16,864 Show data context
1881 20,650 Show data context 19,906 Show data context
1891 19,906 Show data context 22,653 Show data context
Date: Source:
1801 - 1851 1851 Census of Great Britain, Population tables 2, Table [1] , 'Population Abstract'
1881 1881 Census of England and Wales, Population tables 2, Table 4 , 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'
1891 1891 Census of England and Wales, Population tables 2, Table 2 , 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'

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This classification is designed to permit data from the 1801 Crop Returns to be included with data from the annual Agricultural Census from 1866 onwards. The 1801 Returns were highly simplified, and varied in what they reported from one parish to another, so in practice we can consistently identify only three individual crops (wheat, rye and potatoes) and two pairings ("Barley and Oats", and "Peas and Beans"). Everything else has to be included in "Other". The 1801 returns also provided limited geographical cov...


erage: a great many parishes were missing from the data, and some additional parish names could not be identified, matched more than one parish within the named county, or lacked information on the county they were in. Nottinghamshire is completely missing. County totals include data for parishes that could not be identified. The national total for England includes parishes with missing county information. The national total for England is also used as the total for England and Wales, to permit the web site to present comparisons with national totals, even though the 1801 returns contain no data on Wales.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Trevethin CP/AP through time | Population Statistics | Total Population, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 31st October 2024