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 130,100 Show data context 55,802 Show data context 35,731 Show data context 1,045 Show data context 36,516 Show data context 13,165 Show data context 16,172 Show data context 16,723 Show data context 15,817 Show data context 3 Show data context 12,788 Show data context 41,888 Show data context 21,124 Show data context
1881 111,096 Show data context 69,648 Show data context 38,804 Show data context 559 Show data context 29,905 Show data context 8,758 Show data context 18,971 Show data context 18,810 Show data context 11,564 Show data context 0 Show data context 22,728 Show data context 22,141 Show data context
1891 110,191 Show data context 58,535 Show data context 41,517 Show data context 591 Show data context 28,991 Show data context 16,147 Show data context 17,147 Show data context 18,780 Show data context 9,095 Show data context 0 Show data context 13,116 Show data context 50,463 Show data context 16,747 Show data context
1901 93,514 Show data context 53,896 Show data context 46,389 Show data context 1,038 Show data context 20,071 Show data context 25,501 Show data context 16,225 Show data context 16,880 Show data context 7,153 Show data context 0 Show data context 12,464 Show data context 60,869 Show data context 24,427 Show data context
1911 105,102 Show data context 49,310 Show data context 46,106 Show data context 1,091 Show data context 28,378 Show data context 30,265 Show data context 14,251 Show data context 17,313 Show data context 5,453 Show data context 0 Show data context 12,480 Show data context 39,546 Show data context 24,517 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, Cambridgeshire 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: 26th April 2024