A HISTORY OF DORSET 



TABLE OF POPULATION 

 1801 — 1901 



ADcieat or Geographical 

 County ' 



Acre- 

 age 



632,270 



1801 



114.452 



1811 



1821 



1831 



1841 I 1851 



124.718 144.494 159,385 175.274 184.380 



1861 I 1871 



1881 1891 1 1901 



189,015 195.774 191,028 194,568 202.984 



1 Anciint County. — The County as defined by the Act, 7 & S Vict., cap. 61, which affected Dorset to the following 

 extent: — (a) added to Dorset (i) Holwell Parish (Sturrainster Division) from Somerset, {2) part of Axminster Ancient 

 Parish and the whole of Thorncombe Parish (Bridport Division), both from Devon, and (3) part ol Hampreston 

 Ancient Parish (East Shaston Division), from Hampshire, and (b) transferred from Dorset to Devonshire Stociiland 

 Ancient Parish. 



The area of the County is taken from the 1901 Census Volume, and does not include a part of Chardstock Parish, 

 added to Devon under the provisions of the Divided Parishes Acts, though necessarily the population of this area 

 is included. 



The population in 1821 is exclusive of 436 militia, who could not be assigned to their respective parishes. (Set 

 also notes to Axminster, Hooke, Pulham, ToUard Royal, and Poole St. James ) 



'^ Consistmg of the Hundreds of Coombs Ditch, Pimperne, and Rushmore, and the Liberty of Dewlish. 



' The population of Andcnon included that of Winterborne Tomson in 1801. 



*> Consisting of the Hundreds of Corfe Castle, Bere Regis, Hundredsbarrow, Hasilor, Rowbarrow, and Winfrith, 

 and the Liberties of Bindon and Owermoigne. 



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