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	Bedford and Cardington	Show Bedford 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]
Bedford and Cardington SubD Total		18,376	2,849	128	41	3,047	148	32	14,133	14,845	6,665	6,911	7,468	7,934
Wootton AP/CP		3,711	289	17	3	279	16	0	1,312	1,302	632	642	680	660
Bedford St Peter CP/AP		0	654	22	1	786	31	7	3,201	3,976	1,427	1,732	1,774	2,244
Bedford St Paul AP/CP		2,127	1,876	120	28	2,002	85	10	9,462	10,121	4,349	4,380	5,113	5,741
Bedford St Mary CP/AP		0	496	34	17	695	38	14	2,574	3,565	1,246	1,726	1,328	1,839
Bedford St John CP/AP		0	93	5	0	120	2	8	439	537	217	267	222	270
Elstow AP/CP		1,522	112	1	0	107	1	0	605	558	288	278	317	280
Wilshamstead AP/CP		3,027	209	10	0	190	23	0	1,000	820	474	417	526	403
Cardington CP/AP		0	111	3	0	107	6	0	545	512	250	233	295	279
Eastcotts CP/Tn		5,170	180	3	1	162	7	0	798	713	386	348	412	365
Cople CP/AP		2,109	110	0	0	97	1	0	560	459	257	213	303	246
Willington CP/AP		1,648	56	1	0	55	1	0	275	248	140	117	135	131
Goldington CP/AP		2,735	138	1	0	127	12	0	642	579	309	276	333	303
Renhold AP/CP		2,165	102	1	0	103	0	0	523	516	249	252	274	264
Ravensden AP/CP		2,160	97	2	0	95	4	0	495	465	266	248	229	217
Wilden AP/CP		2,160	113	12	0	109	10	0	513	443	262	224	251	219
Roxton CP/AP		2,880	133	6	1	120	17	0	596	551	292	270	304	281
Great Barford AP/CP		2,830	207	1	1	196	10	1	847	788	413	371	434	417

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Bedford and Cardington 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.

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