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

Administrative unit

Auckland RegD/PLU

Poor Law Union/Reg. District

Historical statistics
Key findings
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Population

Densities and rates of growth. Age structure: concentrations of young people, and of the old.

Industry

How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.

Life & Death

Numbers of babies born. Deaths, especially infant deaths. Causes of death by age and gender.

Work & Poverty

Unemployment rates and poor relief. What proportions of men and of women did paid work?

Housing

Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.

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Total Population 1801 to 1911: Population grew from 8,397 in 1801 to 106,316 in 1911.
Age Structure, in 5-year bands, from 1851 to 1911: In 1851, only 3.53 per cent of the population were aged 65 and over, but by 1911 3.82 per cent were.
Infant Mortality Rate 1871 to 1911: The highest rate recorded was 191.62 infant deaths per thousand live births in 1901, and the lowest was 136.54 in 1881.
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:: AUCKLAND
Unit Type:: Poor Law Union/Reg. District
Status:: Poor Law Union
Registration District
Date created:: 1837
Date abolished:
Unit ID:: 10155010
Authorities:: F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 663.

Auckland RegD/PLU, County Durham

Alternative names

We know of no alternate names.

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
COUNTY DURHAM	Poor Law/Registration County	1850		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 663.
COUNTY DURHAM	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
BISHOP AUCKLAND	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'.
HAMSTERLEY	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'.
ALLOTMENTS OF MOOR ExP	Parish-level Unit			1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
AUCKLAND ST ANDREW CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 91.
AUCKLAND ST HELEN Ch/CP	Parish-level Unit		1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 91.
BINCHESTER CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 93.
BISHOP AUCKLAND Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866	1886	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 90.
BISHOP AUCKLAND CP	Parish-level Unit	1894		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 90.
BISHOP AUCKLAND AND POLLARDS LANDS CP	Parish-level Unit	1866	1894	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 91.
BOLAM CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 94.
BYERS GREEN Ch/Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit		1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 95.
COUNDON CP/Ch/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 97.
COUNDON GRANGE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 97.
CROOK AND BILLY ROW CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 97.
EAST THICKLEY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 116.
ELDON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 100.
ESCOMB CP/Ch	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 100.
ETHERLEY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 91.
EVENWOOD AND BARONY Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 101.
HAMSTERLEY Ch/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 102.
HELMINGTON ROW CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 104.
HUNWICK AND HELMINGTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 106.
LAND COMMON TO EVENWOOD AND BARONY AND WEST AUCKLAND PA	Parish-level Unit			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'.
LANDS COMMON TO WITTON LE WEAR AND NORTH BEDBURN ExP	Parish-level Unit			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'.
LYNESACK AND SOFTLEY CP/Ch/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 108.
MERRINGTON CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 108.
MERRINGTON LANE CP	Parish-level Unit	1894	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 109.
MIDDLESTONE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 109.
MIDDRIDGE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 109.
MIDDRIDGE GRANGE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 109.
NEWFIELD CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 110.
NEWTON CAP CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 111.
NORTH BEDBURN CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 92.
OLD PARK CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 111.
POLLARDS LAND Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866	1886	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 112.
POLLARDS LAND CP	Parish-level Unit	1894		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 112.
SHILDON Ch/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 114.
SOUTH BEDBURN CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 92.
UNDIVIDED MOOR COMMON TO LYNESACK AND SOFTLEY HAMSTERLEY AND SOUTH BEDBURN PA	Parish-level Unit			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'.
WESTERTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 118.
WHITWORTH CP/AP	Parish-level Unit		1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 118.
WHITWORTH WITHOUT CP	Parish-level Unit	1894	1937	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 119.
WINDLESTONE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 119.
WITTON LE WEAR Ch/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 119.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Auckland 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/10155010

Date accessed: 25th April 2024