A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



amalgamate entire parishes with one or more parishes. Under the 1879 Act it was not necessary 

 for the area dealt with to be entirely detached. These Acts also declared that every part added to 

 a parish in another county becomes part of that county. 



Then came the Local Government Act, 1888, which permits the alteration of civil parish boun- 

 daries and the amalgamation of civil parishes by Local Government Board orders. It also created the 

 administrative counties. The Local Government Act of 1 894 enacts that where a civil parish is partly 

 in a rural district and partly in an urban district each part shall become a separate civil parish ; and 

 also that where a civil parish is situated in more than one urban district each part shall become a 

 separate civil parish, imless the county council otherwise direct. Meanwhile, the ecclesiastical parishes 

 had been altered and new ones created under entirely different Acts, which cannot be entered into 

 here, as the table treats of the ancient parishes in their civil aspect. 



Population 



The first census of England was taken in 1801, and was very little more than a counting of the 

 population in each parish (or place), excluding all persons, such as soldiers, sailors, &c., who formed 

 no part of its ordinary population. It was the de facto population (i.e. the population actually 

 resident at a particular time) and not the de jure (i.e. the population really belonging to any par- 

 ticular place at a particular time). This principle has been sustained throughout the censuses. 



The Army at home (including militia), the men of the Royal Navy ashore, and the registered 

 seamen ashore were not included in the population of the places where they happened to be, at the 

 time of the census, until 1 84 1 . The men of the Royal Navy and other persons on board vessels (naval 

 or mercantile) in home ports were first included in the population of those places in 1 85 1. Others 

 temporarily present, such as gipsies, persons in barges, &c. were included in 1 84 1 and perhaps earlier. 



General 



Up to and including 1831 the returns were mainly made by the overseers of the poor, and 

 more than one day was allowed for the enumeration, but the 1841-1901 returns were made under 

 the superintendence of the registration oflScers and the enumeration was to be completed in one day. 

 The Householder's Schedule was first used in 1 84 1 . The exact dates of the censuses are as follows : — 



10 March, 1801 30 May, 1831 8 April, i86i 6 April, 1891 



27 May, 181 1 7 June, 1841 3 April, 1871 I April, 1901 



28 May, 1 82 1 31 March, 1851 4 April, 1881 



Notes Explanatory of the Table 



This table gives the population of the ancient county and arranges the parishes, &c. under the 

 hundred or other subdivision to which they belong, but there is no doubt that the constitution of 

 hundreds, parishes, &c. was in some cases doubtful. 



In the main the table follows the arrangement in the 184 1 census volume. 



The table gives the population and area of each parish, &c.as it existed in 1 801, as far as possible. 



The areas are those supplied by the Ordnance Survey Department, except in the case of those 

 marked ' e,' which were calculated by other authorities. The area includes inland water (if any), 

 but not tidal water or foreshore. 



t after the name of a parish, part of parish, or place indicates that it was affected by the operation of 

 the Divided Parishes Acts, but the Registrar-General failed to obtain particulars of every such change. 

 The changes which escaped notification were, however, probably small in area and with little, if any, 

 population. Considerable difficulty was experienced both in 1891 and 1901 in tracing the results 

 of changes efiFected in civil parishes under the provisions of these Acts ; by the Registrar-General's 

 courtesy, however, reference has been permitted to certain records of formeriy detached parts of parishes, 

 which has made it possible approximately to ascertain the population in 1 901 of parishes as constituted 

 prior to such alterations, though the figures in many instances must be regarded as partly estimates. 



X after the name of a parish (or place) indicates that the ecclesiastical parish of the same name 

 at the 1 901 census was co-extensive with such parish (or place). 



in the table indicates that there is no population on the area in question, 



— in the table indicates that no popularion can be ascertained. 



The word 'chapelry' seems often to have been used as an equivalent for 'township' in 1841, 

 which census volume has been adopted as the standard for names and descriptions of areas. 



The figures in italics in the table relate to the area and population of such subdivisions of 

 ancient parishes as chapelries, townships, and hamlets. 



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