England and Wales Country (Dep) : 1801 Crop Acreages

1801 Crop Acreages

Data cube chart.

1801 Crop Return categories 1801
Wheat 1,734,502 Show data context
Barley 983,814 Show data context
Oats 1,336,980 Show data context
Barley & Oats 2,572 Show data context
Potatoes 106,951 Show data context
Peas 217,835 Show data context
Beans 281,408 Show data context
Peas & Beans 54,135 Show data context
Turnips 121,567 Show data context
Rape 5,970 Show data context
Turnips or Rape 354,016 Show data context
Rye 36,655 Show data context
Other 1,070 Show data context
Date Source
1801 Home Office: Parish Acreage Returns

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Date Acknowledgments
1801 (1) Michael Turner (Department of Economic History, University of Hull). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes. (2) Great Britain Historical GIS Project (Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth). Role: digitiser. Restrictions on use: the data may be freely used.

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nCube definition


Housing density, simplified to under 1 person per room, 1 to 1.5, and over 1.5. Data for these categories can be computed for districts in England and Wales for all censuses from 1931 onwards, but for Scotland they can only be computed for 1971 on.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, England and Wales Country (Dep) through time | Historical Statistics on Agriculture & Land Use | 1801 Crop Acreages, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 03rd June 2026