Generalised Crop Acreages

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Year Wheat Barley & Oats Rye Potatoes Peas & Beans Other
1871 395 Show data context 5,122 Show data context 41 Show data context 1,436 Show data context 116 Show data context 8,065 Show data context
1881 103 Show data context 5,470 Show data context 33 Show data context 1,455 Show data context 148 Show data context 1,518 Show data context
1891 0 Show data context 5,062 Show data context 70 Show data context 975 Show data context 65 Show data context 11,066 Show data context
1901 5 Show data context 5,019 Show data context 66 Show data context 941 Show data context 85 Show data context 10,085 Show data context
1911 15 Show data context 4,754 Show data context 60 Show data context 998 Show data context 48 Show data context 8,955 Show data context
1931 0 Show data context 4,191 Show data context 21 Show data context 908 Show data context 4 Show data context 9,316 Show data context
1961 5 Show data context 3,707 Show data context 518 Show data context 13,850 Show data context
Date: Source:
1871 - 1911 Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics (HM Stationery Office) ,
1931 - 1961 Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland, Scottish 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, Buteshire ScoCnty through time | Agriculture & Land Use Statistics | Generalised Crop Acreages, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 29th May 2024