SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY 



TABLE OF POPULATION 

 1801 — 1901 



Ancient or Geographical 

 County 1 



Acre- 

 age 



298,494 



1801 



63.393 



1811 



70,119 



1821 



83,716 



1831 



1841 



95,483 107,936 



1851 



i85i 



124,478135,287 



1871 



146,257 



1881 



1891 



igoi 



149,473160,621171,174 



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1 Anient County.— The County as defined by the Act 7 & 8 Vict. cap. 61. The area is taken from the 1901 

 Census volume. The population given in the table is exclusive of 94 militiamen in 1811 and of 336 militiamen in 

 i82r, who could not be assigned to their respective parishes. (See also note to Whipsnade.) 



'» Sandy is situated partly in Biggleswade Hundred and partly in Wixamtree Hundred. The entire area, and 

 population in 1891 and 1901, are shown in Biggleswade Hundred. 



8 Shitlington is situated partly in Flitt Hundred. It is entirely entered in Clifton Hundred. 



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