Vision of Britain | 1831 Census: Abstract of answers

1831 Census of Great Britain, Abstract of answers (Sample Report Title: Abstracts of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, Intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof." Enumeration Abstract.), Table [1] : " Population Abstract".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area	Houses				Occupations			Persons				Agriculture			Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery. [16]	Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicrafts as Masters or Workmen. [17]	Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men. [18]	Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	Male Servants		Female Servants [23]
	English Statute Acres [1]	Inhabited [2]	Families [3]	Building [4]	Uninhabited [5]	Families chiefly employed in Agriculture [6]	Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft [7]	All other Families not comprised in the two preceding Classes [8]	Males [9]	Females [10]	Total of Persons [11]	Males Twenty Years of Age [12]	Occupiers employing Labourers. [13]	Occupiers not employing Labourers. [14]	Labourers employed in Agriculture. [15]				Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]	Female Servants [23]
Beaminster Hundred Total	27,390	1,539	1,584	11	46	783	533	268	3,880	4,083	7,963	1,851	161	88	714	108	514	52	109	74	31	28	251
Beaminster Ch/CP	4,350	566	573	7	10	144	339	90	1,395	1,573	2,968	725	23	23	124	87	313	29	70	42	14	14	116
Chardstock CP/AP	5,540	276	284	0	12	188	78	18	686	671	1,357	337	55	44	134	0	71	5	6	12	10	6	26
Chedington CP/AP	2,690	31	33	0	3	24	7	2	93	85	178	39	2	1	24	0	9	1	1	1	0	0	4
Corscombe CP/AP	4,170	140	142	1	6	122	16	4	361	353	714	175	22	5	88	0	44	2	8	6	0	0	8
Netherbury AP/CP	6,600	380	387	0	7	191	49	147	949	993	1,942	378	39	10	229	4	48	11	23	7	7	5	64
Stoke Abbott AP/CP	1,980	113	121	2	6	81	39	1	283	304	587	143	13	1	78	17	27	1	0	6	0	3	16
Wambrook Ch/CP/AP	2,060	33	44	1	2	33	5	6	113	104	217	54	7	4	37	0	2	3	1	0	0	0	17

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Beaminster Hundred:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

Comments:

1	This transcription also includes sub-parish units, but as they have not been systematically added to the auo they are not included in the material copied into the g_data table.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.

Acknowledgments:

We are grateful to the following contributors. If you make use of the data in your own work, please follow any instructions given here on acknowledgment and re-use.

David Allan Gatley (School of Social Sciences, University of Staffordshire). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.