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 68,817 Show data context 21,233 Show data context 7,484 Show data context 1,140 Show data context 32,465 Show data context 6,973 Show data context 15,445 Show data context 4,720 Show data context 772 Show data context 2,672 Show data context 8,156 Show data context 34,217 Show data context 8,682 Show data context
1881 53,222 Show data context 18,579 Show data context 9,888 Show data context 422 Show data context 22,737 Show data context 6,400 Show data context 13,776 Show data context 3,406 Show data context 945 Show data context 2,698 Show data context 18,764 Show data context 7,236 Show data context
1891 41,145 Show data context 12,385 Show data context 13,146 Show data context 549 Show data context 21,367 Show data context 7,757 Show data context 12,184 Show data context 3,643 Show data context 901 Show data context 3,280 Show data context 8,232 Show data context 30,049 Show data context 9,511 Show data context
1901 27,009 Show data context 9,593 Show data context 19,955 Show data context 862 Show data context 18,143 Show data context 6,988 Show data context 7,971 Show data context 4,944 Show data context 1,865 Show data context 4,029 Show data context 6,475 Show data context 29,334 Show data context 13,249 Show data context
1911 27,540 Show data context 5,929 Show data context 18,717 Show data context 635 Show data context 17,759 Show data context 6,124 Show data context 7,034 Show data context 6,184 Show data context 1,720 Show data context 3,061 Show data context 5,589 Show data context 19,488 Show data context 10,319 Show data context
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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, Worcestershire 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: 23rd April 2024