Herefordshire Administrative County (pre-1974) : Farmland Use, as reported by the Land Utilisation Survey

Farmland Use, as reported by the Land Utilisation Survey

Data cube chart.

Land Utilisation Survey farmland categories 1931
Permanent Grass 333,800 Show data context
Arable 80,520 Show data context
Date Source
1931 L. Dudley Stamp, The Land of Britain: Its Use and Misuse (London: Longmans/Geographical Publications, 1948)

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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, Herefordshire Administrative County (pre-1974) through time | Historical Statistics on Agriculture & Land Use | Farmland Use, as reported by the Land Utilisation Survey, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 05th June 2026