Administrative unit

Suffolk AdmC

Administrative County

Suffolk AdmC — Current theme: Agriculture & Land Use

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.



We hold these detailed statistics for Suffolk, which we graph and tabulate here:

Available datasets Period covered Variables
(number of categories)
Acreages of different crops, as reported by Agricultural Censuses 1961-3 1961 Agricultural Census Crop Categories, 1961-3 (29)
Ages of fowls (chickens) as recorded by the Agricultural Census 1961 Agricultural Census Categories of Fowl in 1950 (2)
Ages & usage of fowls (chickens) as recorded by the Agricultural Census 1961 Agricultural Census Categories of Fowl in 1960 (4)
Basic land use categories, as reported by the Agricultural Census 1961 Land Areas reported by the Agricultural Census (6)
Categories of Cattle as reported by the Agricultural Census. 1961 Agricultural Census Cattle Categories for 1960-61 (14)
Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census 1961 Agricultural Census Categories for Farmland (2)
Generalised agricultural crop classification for 1866-1970. 1961 Agricultural Census Generalised Crop Categories (13)
Generalised Cattle Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census. 1961 Agricultural Census Generalised Cattle Categories (3)
Generalised Crop Acreages 1961 Generalised Crop Categories (6)
Generalised Pig Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census. 1961 Agricultural Census Generalised Pig Categories (3)
Generalised Sheep Categories as reported by the Agricultural Census. 1961 Agricultural Census Generalised Sheep Categories (3)
Ownership of rough grazing land 1961 Agricultural Census Categories for Rough Grazing (2)
Pasture Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census 1961 Agricultural Census Categories for Pasture (2)
Total areas of reporting units 1961 Total Area (for Farm Census) (1)
Types of Animal reported by the Agricultural Census 1961 Types of animal listed by the Agricultural Census (6)
Types of goat as reported by the Agricultural Census. 1961 Agricultural Census Goat Categories for 1961 (2)
Types of pig as reported by the Agricultural Census. 1961 Agricultural Census Pig Categories for 1940-41 (8)
Types of poultry as recorded by the Agricultural Census. 1961 Agricultural Census Poultry Categories (4)
Types of sheep as reported by the Agricultural Census. 1961 Agricultural Census Sheep Categories for 1960-70 (6)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.