Generalised agricultural crop classification for 1866-1970.

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Year Wheat Barley Oats Rye Beans & Peas Potatoes Turnips & Swedes Mangolds Cabbage, Rape, etc Hops Bare Fallow Clover & Rotation Grasses Other Crops
1871 53,582 Show data context 29,311 Show data context 9,374 Show data context 528 Show data context 27,467 Show data context 5,819 Show data context 11,687 Show data context 4,488 Show data context 6,913 Show data context 0 Show data context 7,525 Show data context 15,868 Show data context 9,316 Show data context
1881 46,379 Show data context 31,053 Show data context 12,571 Show data context 285 Show data context 18,589 Show data context 5,587 Show data context 11,912 Show data context 3,375 Show data context 1,815 Show data context 0 Show data context 18,313 Show data context 9,237 Show data context
1891 44,724 Show data context 23,154 Show data context 13,406 Show data context 243 Show data context 17,294 Show data context 7,313 Show data context 9,814 Show data context 3,920 Show data context 1,666 Show data context 0 Show data context 11,230 Show data context 21,146 Show data context 7,846 Show data context
1901 35,227 Show data context 18,529 Show data context 17,905 Show data context 153 Show data context 11,871 Show data context 9,829 Show data context 6,661 Show data context 4,064 Show data context 2,257 Show data context 0 Show data context 9,227 Show data context 27,972 Show data context 9,580 Show data context
1911 42,031 Show data context 10,149 Show data context 20,335 Show data context 154 Show data context 15,162 Show data context 7,918 Show data context 5,512 Show data context 5,049 Show data context 3,000 Show data context 0 Show data context 10,651 Show data context 17,395 Show data context 10,160 Show data context
Date: Source:
1871 - 1911 Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics (HM Stationery Office) ,

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This system for crop classification has been designed by the GBH GIS project to enable comparison of all farm censuses from 1866 to 1970. This inevitably means including many crops in a large 'Other' category. Although Farm Census data for Scotland as well as for England and Wales have been converted to this structure, the Scottish classification for 1961 fits particularly poorly, not identifying rye or beans and peas. Hops are not identified in the Scottish classification for 1931 or 1961, but there were no hops...


at all in Scotland in 1871 or 1901.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Bedfordshire AncC through time | Agriculture & Land Use Statistics | Generalised agricultural crop classification for 1866-1970., A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 27th April 2024