Aberdeenshire ScoCnty — Current theme: Agriculture & Land Use

This aspect of the Vision of Britain system presents data from two kinds of source: Agricultural Censuses, which gathered data on the kinds of crops planted and animals raised, usually from farmers; and Land Use Mapping, which actually surveyed land use, field by field. Work on this theme has been funded by DEFRA, the Environment Agency and the Frederick Soddy Trust. Our most detailed information on land use is, in fact, the complete set of the maps published by the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain, included in our 'Historical Mapping' section.

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We hold these detailed statistics for Aberdeenshire, which we graph and tabulate here:

Available datasets	Period covered	Variables (number of categories)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by the 1931 Scottish Agricultural Census	1931	Agricultural Census Crop Categories for 1931 (20)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by the 1961 Scottish Agricultural Census	1961	Agricultural Census Crop Categories for 1961 (18)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by the Agricultural Census for 1891 through 1901.	1891 to 1901	Agricultural Census Crop Categories, 1891-1901 (18)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by the Agricultural Census for 1910.	1911	Agricultural Census Crop Categories for 1910 (19)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by the Agricultural Census in 1871.	1871	Agricultural Census Crop Categories, 1871- (17)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by the Agricultural Census in 1881.	1881	Agricultural Census Crop Categories, 1881- (16)
Acreages of different small fruit, as reported by the 1961 Scottish Farm Census	1961	Scottish Farm Census Small Fruit Categories for 1961 (3)
Acreages of different vegetable, as reported by the 1961 Scottish Farm Census	1961	Scottish Farm Census Vegetable Categories for 1961 (13)
Acreages of farms by type of tenure.	1891 to 1901	Agricultural Census Tenure-type Categories for 1891 (2)
Ages of fowls (chickens) as recorded by the Agricultural Census	1961	Agricultural Census Categories of Fowl in 1950 (2)
Ages of sheep as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1871 to 1891	Agricultural Census Sheep Categories for 1866-1891 (2)
Ages of sheep as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1901	Agricultural Census Sheep Categories for 1900-10 (3)
Ages & usage of fowls (chickens) as recorded by the Agricultural Census	1961	Agricultural Census Categories of Fowl in 1960 (4)
Basic land use categories, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1871 to 1961	Land Areas reported by the Agricultural Census (6)
Categories of Cattle as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1901	Agricultural Census Cattle Categories for 1900-01 (4)
Categories of Cattle as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1911	Agricultural Census Cattle Categories for 1910-11 (5)
Categories of Cattle as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1871 to 1891	Agricultural Census Cattle Categories for 1866-91 (3)
Categories of Cattle as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Cattle Categories for 1920-31 (7)
Categories of Cattle as reported by the Scottish Census.	1961	Scottish Farm Census Cattle Categories for 1961 (20)
Categories of horse as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1871 to 1881	Agricultural Census Horse Categories for 1870-1885 (2)
Categories of horse as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1891	Agricultural Census Horse Categories for 1891 (3)
Categories of horse as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1901	Agricultural Census Horse Categories for 1900-10 (3)
Categories of horse as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Horse Categories for 1920-31 (5)
Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1871 to 1961	Agricultural Census Categories for Farmland (2)
Farmland Use, as reported by the Land Utilisation Survey	1931	Land Utilisation Survey farmland categories (2)
Farmworkers, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1931	Agricultural Census Categories for Farmworkers in 1930 (6)
Farmworkers, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1931 to 1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Categories for Farmworkers (5)
Farmworkers, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1961	Scottish Agricultural Census Categories for Farmworkers in 1961 (8)
Generalised agricultural crop classification for 1866-1970.	1871 to 1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Crop Categories (13)
Generalised Categories for Horses as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1871 to 1931	Agricultural Census Generalised Horse Categories (2)
Generalised Cattle Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1901 to 1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Cattle Categories (3)
Generalised Crop Acreages	1871 to 1961	Generalised Crop Categories (6)
Generalised Pig Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Pig Categories (3)
Generalised Sheep Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1901 to 1961	Agricultural Census Generalised Sheep Categories (3)
Land Utilisation in the 1930s (LUSGB data)	1931	Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain categories (6)
Pasture Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1871 to 1961	Agricultural Census Categories for Pasture (2)
Permanent Grassland, as reported by the 1931 Scottish Farm Census	1931	1931 Scottish Farm Census Categories for Permanent Grassland (3)
Sizes of farms as reported by the Scottish Agricultural Census.	1961	Scottish Agricultural Census Farm Size Categories for 1961 (13)
Total area, in acres	1931	Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain Total (1)
Total areas of reporting units	1881 to 1961	Total Area (for Farm Census) (1)
Total Farm Workforce, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1931 to 1961	Variable for total number of farmworkers (1)
Total number of farms & smallholdings	1961	Total Number of Farms (1)
Types of Animal reported by the Agricultural Census	1871 to 1961	Types of animal listed by the Agricultural Census (6)
Types of pig as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1961	Agricultural Census Pig Categories for 1940-41 (8)
Types of pig as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1901	Agricultural Census Pig Categories for 1900-10 (2)
Types of pig as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Pig Categories for 1920-30 (3)
Types of poultry as recorded by the Agricultural Census.	1931 to 1961	Agricultural Census Poultry Categories (4)
Types of sheep as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1931	Agricultural Census Sheep Categories for 1920-30 (4)
Types of sheep as reported by the Agricultural Census.	1961	Scottish Farm Census Sheep Categories for 1961 (5)

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