Clare IrlC — Current theme: Agriculture & Land Use

• Percentage Arable (Farm Census)
• Wheat Farming
• Potato Farming
• Oat Farming
• Cattle per Acre
• Sheep per Acre

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This aspect of the Vision of Britain system presents data from two kinds of source: Agricultural Censuses, which gathered data on the kinds of crops planted and animals raised, usually from farmers; and Land Use Mapping, which actually surveyed land use, field by field. Work on this theme has been funded by DEFRA, the Environment Agency and the Frederick Soddy Trust. Our most detailed information on land use is, in fact, the complete set of the maps published by the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain, included in our 'Historical Mapping' section.

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Our detailed statistics are held in structures called nCubes, which you can think of as tables with one dimension, or with two ... or with twenty. Their dimensions are defined by the variables each nCube combines, and each variable is made up of categories. These nCubes are available at national level for this theme:

Available nCubes	Period covered	Variables (number of categories)
Total areas of reporting units	1871	Total Area (for Farm Census) (1)
Basic land use categories, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1871	Land Areas reported by the Agricultural Census (6)
Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census	1871	Agricultural Census Categories for Farmland (2)
Generalised Crop Acreages	1871	Generalised Crop Categories (6)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by the Agricultural Census in 1871.	1871	Agricultural Census Crop Categories, 1871- (17)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by the Agricultural Census in 1871.	1871	Agricultural Census Crop Categories, 1871- (19)
Generalised agricultural crop classification for 1866-1970.	1871	Agricultural Census Generalised Crop Categories (13)
Types of Animal reported by the Agricultural Census	1871	Types of animal listed by the Agricultural Census (6)