Vision of Britain | 1881 Census: Population tables 2

1881 Census of England and Wales, Tables: Area, Houses and Population in Registration Counties, Table 4 : " Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881".

Show top level table	Melford	Show Sudbury RegD/PLU table

Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
		1871			1881			Persons		Males		Females
		Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Inhabited [5]	Uninhabited [6]	Building [7]	1871 [8]	1881 [9]	1871 [10]	1881 [11]	1871 [12]	1881 [13]
Melford SubD Total	18,310	1,481	43	4	1,416	142	0	6,880	6,489	3,372	3,186	3,508	3,303
Pentlow AP/CP	1,898	82	2	0	75	8	1	377	293	174	143	203	150
Foxearth CP/AP	1,683	98	3	0	93	6	0	423	390	176	192	247	198
Alpheton AP/CP	1,202	76	3	0	64	10	0	290	249	149	123	141	126
Long Melford CP/AP	5,185	654	24	0	714	29	1	3,046	3,293	1,440	1,577	1,606	1,716
Cavendish AP/CP	3,354	305	9	0	261	47	0	1,388	1,149	667	545	721	604
Glemsford AP/CP	2,295	452	4	2	490	23	0	2,251	2,490	1,095	1,229	1,156	1,261
Stanstead CP/AP	1,162	90	3	0	88	8	0	399	369	199	188	200	181
Boxted AP/CP	1,367	43	0	0	41	0	0	194	181	89	92	105	89
Hawkedon AP/CP	1,461	64	5	0	61	7	0	306	278	163	128	143	150
Somerton AP/CP	1,040	33	3	0	28	4	0	168	116	95	57	73	59
Hartest AP/CP	1,964	165	8	2	153	11	0	720	616	355	318	365	298
Shimpling CP/AP	2,698	121	3	0	110	19	0	584	491	279	239	305	252
Lawshall AP/CP	2,969	208	8	0	184	23	0	870	799	430	390	440	409

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1881
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1881
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1881

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	Where the name of the Registration County in which a parish is situated differs from that of the County Proper to which it belongs, the name of the latter is stated in italics.
2	(W) or (W S) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, and has been included in the return; (w) or (w s) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School not belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, but has been included in the return. A statement of the number of persons in the principal Public Institutions in each district will be found in Table 6.
3	The AREAS which have been supplied by the Ordnance Survey Department are printed in Script type (e.g. Chessington 1250, sub-district 30 : 2). Those printed in French type (e.g. Charnham Street (Wilts) 2490, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Tithe Commissioners, and those printed in Arabic type (e.g. Baydon (Wilts) 3060, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Mr. Rickman, in the Enumeration Abstract for 1831. In these latter cases a more accurate estimate of the area is not at present procurable.
4	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 8.
5	Persons who, on the night of the 3rd April 1881, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included among the general population.
6	In cases where detached parts of parishes have been transferred by Local Government Board Orders under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61, the houses and population for 1871 have been corrected, that the figures may be compatible with those for 1881.

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.