252 WESTMORLAND AGRICULTURE, 1800— 1900 



Barbon, 32 allotments under J acre. 



Kirkby Lonsdale 89 allotments under J of an acre. 



In a paper read before the Royal Statistical Society in 1887 on the 

 size and distribution of Agricultural Holdings in England and abroad, 

 Westmorland was included in the counties where 60 per cent, of the 

 population was rural, with a percentage of population outside Urban 

 Sanitary Authorities of 70. The percentage of the whole population 

 actually engaged in agriculture in the county was 11. 7. The 

 average size of holdings, 68 acres. The percentage of holdings under 

 20 acres, 36.4, under 5 acres, 15.0. Allotments of all sorts per 1,000 

 acres cultivated, .4. 



Before the same Society in iSSS Major Craigie read a paper on 

 the " English Poor Rate," and gave the following statistics with 

 regard to Westmorland as compared with the average of all 

 England : — 



Average of 

 Westmorland. all England. 



Greatest density : Persons to a square mile, Census 1881 82 . . 446 



Percentage of Land to Total Ratable Value, 1870 . . 66.3 . . 38 



Persons employed in agriculture per 1000 of the popula- 

 tion, 1881 .. .. .. .. .. .. 117 .. 53 



Percentage of population under Urban Sanitary Govern- 

 ment, 188 1 .. .. .. .. .. ..30 .. 68 



Least Pauperism : Pauper in each 1000 of population 



1st July, 1887 . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.4 . . 27.2 



An important return of owners of land (exclusive of the Metropolis) 

 was made in 1875 by the Local Government Board. It has been called 

 the New Doomsday Book, and referred to the year 1S72. The following 

 extract relates to Westmorland : — 



