Allotments and Small Holdings. 
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allowance for the possible imperfections of the earlier figures, it seems 
impossible to resist the conclusion that a large and important increase 
has taken place. It is noteworthy that the rate of annual increase 
in the last four years has been apparently three times as rapid as 
between 1873 and 1886 
Years 
1873 
1886 
1890 
Allotments 
240,398 
357,795 
455,005 
The changes in each of the several counties of England, and in 
Wales and Scotland, where the system of allotments holds but a 
secondary place, are shown in detail in the following Table :— 
Number of Allotments under one Acre detached from Cottages as 
returned in the Years 1873, 1886, and 1890. 
Counties 
Allotments 
1873 1886 1890 
Counties 
Allotments 
1873 1886 1890 
England 
Bedford . . . . 
3erks . . . . , 
Buckingham . , 
Cambridge . . . 
Chester . . . , 
Cornwall ... 
Cumberland . , 
Derby .... 
'Devon 
Dorset ... 
Durham ... 
Essex .... 
Gloucester . . 
Hants. . . . 
Hereford . . . 
Hertford . . . 
Huntingdon . 
Kent .... 
Lancaster . . 
Leicester . . . 
Lincoln . . . 
Middlesex . . 
Monmouth . . 
Norfolk . . . 
Northampton . 
Northumberland 
No. 
8,364 
5,007 
8,632 
9,596 
929 
1,762 
410 
5,628 
7,063 
7,322 
1,000 
8,269 
7,552 
6,712 
997 
5,197 
3,376 
4,150 
992 
17,168 
7,430 
689 
569 
6,400 
16,447 
968 
No. 
12,602 
8,309 
12,346 
10,576 
2,603 
3,127 
676 
7,128 
10,264 
9,135 
4,294 
12,228 
11,144 
8,590 
1,857 
8,316 
5,402 
6,613 
3,706 
18,496 
11,710 
1,844 
767 
9,130 
19,535 
4,142 
No. 
15,194 
10,231 
17,225 
13,428 
3,239 
2,539 
I, 125 
10,702 
10,470 
10,895 
9,077 
12,770 
14,653 
12,614 
1,440 
10,014 
5,980 
11,660 
4,447 
23,396 
15,921 
3,098 
1,802 
II, 855 
26,229 
3,247 
England 
Nottingham .... 
Oxford 
Rutland 
Salop 
Somerset 
Stafford 
Suffolk 
Surrey 
Sussex . . . ... . 
Warwick 
Westmoreland .... 
Wilts 
Worcester 
York, East Riding . . 
York, North Riding . 
York, West Riding . . 
Total for England . 
Total for Wales . . 
Total for Scotland . 
Total for Great Britain 
No. 
11,317 
9,088 
1,252 
1,002 
9,503 
5,444 
11,664 
1,263 
2,782 
12,794 
52 
15,445 
4,919 
1,781 
4,731 
6,876 
242,542 
1,726 
No. 
14,795 
14,062 
1,878 
1,714 
14,908 
6,312 
15,258 
3,153 
4,852 
17,174 
295 
20,760 
7,322 
4,333 
6,812 
10,704 
348,872 
4,949 
No. 
21,253 
17,947 
2,197 
2,584 
16.477 
10.517 
17,658 
5,266 
6,822 
17,731 
950 
23,723 
9,983 
3,200 
8,480 
12,985 
441,024 
3,97- 
6,419 
246,398 1357,796 
455,005 
The allotments detached from cottages are divided into two groups 
only, viz., those under a quarter of an acre, and those of a quarter but 
under one acre in extent. The increase in both classes of allot- 
ments between 1886 and 1890 is about equally great. 
Considerable local variations will be found in the tables between 
the proportions of these two grades of allotments. On the whole 
the smaller class outnumber the larger by much more than two to 
one. But in particular counties the proportions are reversed. 
While in England, as a whole, there are 310,698 allotments under a 
quarter of an acre, and only 130,356 above that limit, in Bedford- 
shire, Huntingdon, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Worcester the larger type 
of allotments prevails, and in the East Riding of York, Lincolnshire, 
