Types of Animal reported by the Agricultural Census

Year	Horses	Cattle	Sheep	Pigs	Poultry
1871	8,242	45,788	760,082	5,371
1881	8,917	52,567	686,307	2,815
1891	8,919	50,272	675,154	3,832
1901	8,661		596,263	2,466
1931	6,274	42,716	503,941	1,980
1961		60,519	667,846	5,795	162,140

Date:	Source:
1871 - 1901	Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics (HM Stationery Office) ,
1931 - 1961	Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland, Scottish Agricultural Statistics (HM Stationery Office) ,

 

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.

Date:	Acknowledgments:
1961	Scottish Government (Rural Environment, Research and Analysis Directorate). Role: creator. Restrictions on use: the material may be re-used free of charge in any format or medium. You must re-use it accurately and not in a misleading context. You must acknowledge the material as Crown copyright and give the title of the document/publication.

 

This website exists to help people doing personal research projects on particular areas within a locality. So long as you are using our data for only a small number of units, you are not making money out of what you are doing, and you are not systematically re-publishing our data, you do not need to request permission from us, but you do need to acknowledge us as your source with the wording:

"This work is based on data provided through www.VisionofBritain.org.uk and uses historical material which is copyright of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project and the University of Portsmouth".

Where the above statement is included in a web page or similar online resource, the reference to "www.VisionofBritain.org.uk" must be a working hyperlink.

nCube definition