Generalised Crop Acreages

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Year Wheat Barley & Oats Rye Potatoes Peas & Beans Other
1871 2,037 Show data context 24,194 Show data context 157 Show data context 6,007 Show data context 217 Show data context 43,284 Show data context
1881 843 Show data context 20,020 Show data context 67 Show data context 5,139 Show data context 111 Show data context 3,745 Show data context
1891 514 Show data context 20,292 Show data context 49 Show data context 6,100 Show data context 92 Show data context 28,138 Show data context
1901 535 Show data context 15,972 Show data context 128 Show data context 4,187 Show data context 57 Show data context 43,207 Show data context
1911 309 Show data context 16,117 Show data context 3 Show data context 3,476 Show data context 29 Show data context 30,794 Show data context
Date: Source:
1871 - 1911 Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics (HM Stationery Office) ,

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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, Caernarvonshire AncC through time | Agriculture & Land Use Statistics | Generalised Crop Acreages, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 05th May 2024