Pelhams Lands Parish (ExP/CP) through time

Pelhams Lands Parish (ExP/CP)

Densities and rates of growth. Age structure: concentrations of young people, and of the old.

How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.

Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.

Parts of Holland.

Formal status

The unit has had the following statuses:

Status	Abbreviation	Start	End	Authority
Extra-Parochial Area	ExP			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991) Permission granted to project.
Civil Parish	CP	1858		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991) Permission granted to project.

Higher level units

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	Authority
LINCOLNSHIRE	Ancient County		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 274.
BOSTON RegD/PLU	Poor Law Union/Reg. District	1862	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 274.
BOSTON RSD	Sanitary District		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 274.
BOSTON RD	Local Government District		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 274.
KIRTON	Registration sub-District		1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
KIRTON Hundred/Wap	Ancient District		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 274.
SWINESHEAD	Registration sub-District		1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'.

Boundaries and changes

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date	Type of change	Other unit involved	Area transferred	Authority
24 Dec 1880	was enlarged by gaining part of	SWINESHEAD CP/AP	Chapel Hill Houses in 1891: 33.	1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 14, 'Changes in the Areas of Civil Parishes effected by Local Government Board Orders under the Provisions of the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876 and 1879, or by the Act of 1882'.; LGBO 11662

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How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Pelhams Lands Parish (ExP/CP) through time, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10446790

Date accessed: 08th April 2026