Vision of Ireland | 1881 Census: Population tables 2

1881 Census of England and Wales, Tables: Area, Houses and Population in Registration Counties, Table 4 : " Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881".

List for top level	Blackburn	List for Lancashire RegC

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
		1871			1881			Persons		Males		Females
		Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Inhabited [5]	Uninhabited [6]	Building [7]	1871 [8]	1881 [9]	1871 [10]	1881 [11]	1871 [12]	1881 [13]
Blackburn RegD/PLU Total	45,855	28,289	2,110	291	34,496	2,793	417	143,810	175,954	68,379	83,617	75,431	92,337
Billington SubD	5,964	354	16	15	410	20	14	1,765	1,997	876	1,009	889	988
Harwood SubD	7,799	2,642	188	20	3,407	143	81	13,185	17,752	6,372	8,617	6,813	9,135
Mellor SubD	7,127	530	50	4	506	62	2	2,415	2,272	1,197	1,116	1,218	1,156
Blackburn SubD	3,681	14,690	1,092	159	17,673	1,487	223	76,339	91,958	36,099	43,453	40,240	48,505
Oswaldtwistle SubD	5,411	2,951	176	28	3,461	270	9	14,733	17,056	7,067	8,241	7,666	8,815
Darwen SubD	9,448	5,282	436	50	6,766	685	48	26,553	33,555	12,528	15,836	14,025	17,719
Witton SubD	6,425	1,840	152	15	2,273	126	40	8,820	11,364	4,240	5,345	4,580	6,019

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	Where the name of the Registration County in which a parish is situated differs from that of the County Proper to which it belongs, the name of the latter is stated in italics.
2	(W) or (W S) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, and has been included in the return; (w) or (w s) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School not belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, but has been included in the return. A statement of the number of persons in the principal Public Institutions in each district will be found in Table 6.
3	The AREAS which have been supplied by the Ordnance Survey Department are printed in Script type (e.g. Chessington 1250, sub-district 30 : 2). Those printed in French type (e.g. Charnham Street (Wilts) 2490, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Tithe Commissioners, and those printed in Arabic type (e.g. Baydon (Wilts) 3060, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Mr. Rickman, in the Enumeration Abstract for 1831. In these latter cases a more accurate estimate of the area is not at present procurable.
4	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 8.
5	Persons who, on the night of the 3rd April 1881, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included among the general population.
6	In cases where detached parts of parishes have been transferred by Local Government Board Orders under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61, the houses and population for 1871 have been corrected, that the figures may be compatible with those for 1881.

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