Market Drayton RegD/PLU through time | Census tables with data for the Poor Law Union/Reg. District

Administrative unit

Market Drayton RegD/PLU

Poor Law Union/Reg. District

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Industry

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Life & Death

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Total Population 1801 to 1911: Population grew from 10,637 in 1801 to 14,627 in 1911.
Age Structure, in 5-year bands, from 1851 to 1911: In 1851, only 6. per cent of the population were aged 65 and over, but by 1911 7.92 per cent were.
Infant Mortality Rate 1871 to 1911: The highest rate recorded was 134.8 infant deaths per thousand live births in 1901, and the lowest was 93.09 in 1911.
Occupational Structure in 1881:

Here we are presenting statistics for a historical unit, which may have changed its boundaries significantly during the period covered.

Preferred Name:: MARKET DRAYTON
Unit Type:: Poor Law Union/Reg. District
Status:: Poor Law Union
Registration District
Date created:: 1837
Date abolished:: 1930
Unit ID:: 10139430
Authorities:: F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 736.

Market Drayton RegD/PLU, Shropshire

Alternative names

The following alternative names exist:

Name	Status	Language	Start	End	Authority
MARKET DRAYTON	Preferred	English			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 736.
DRAYTON	Alternate	English			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 736.

Unit associations

We know of no associations with other units.

Unit history

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
SHROPSHIRE	Poor Law/Registration County	1850		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 736.
SHROPSHIRE	Administrative County			Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.)

Boundary changes

We know of no boundary changes affecting this unit.

Lower level units

This unit contained the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
HODNET	Registration sub-District		01 Apr 1887	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. GB1851POP2_M[1].
MARKET DRAYTON	Registration sub-District			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
MORETON SAY	Registration sub-District		01 Jun 1910	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ADDERLEY CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 379.
ASHLEY AP/CP	Parish-level Unit	1836	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 402.
CHESWARDINE CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 382.
CHILDS ERCALL CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 385.
DRAYTON IN HALES CP/AP	Parish-level Unit		1914	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 385.
HINSTOCK AP/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 387.
HODNET CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 387.
MARKET DRAYTON CP	Parish-level Unit	1914		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 384.
MORETON SAY CP/Ch	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 390.
MUCKLESTONE CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 417.
NORTON IN HALES AP/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 391.
STOKE UPON TERN CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 395.
SUTTON UPON TERN CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 395.
TITTENLEY Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 38.
TYRLEY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 427.
WOORE Ch/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 398.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Market Drayton RegD/PLU through time | Census tables with data for the Poor Law Union/Reg. District, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10139430

Date accessed: 23rd April 2024