1881 Census of England and Wales, Tables: Area, Houses and Population in Registration Counties, Table 4 : " Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881".

List for top level	Wiltshire	List for England Dep

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
			1871			1881			Persons		Males		Females
			Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Inhabited [5]	Uninhabited [6]	Building [7]	1871 [8]	1881 [9]	1871 [10]	1881 [11]	1871 [12]	1881 [13]
Wiltshire RegC Total		793,144	52,447	2,435	349	53,605	3,791	216	246,146	248,664	121,196	122,766	124,950	125,898
Swindon and Highworth RegD/PLU		50,986	4,760	137	116	6,863	391	31	25,689	35,755	13,449	18,600	12,240	17,155
Cricklade and Wootton Bassett RegD/PLU		43,191	2,618	134	4	2,535	179	4	12,128	11,283	6,021	5,622	6,107	5,661
Malmesbury RegD/PLU		58,045	3,144	112	18	3,014	197	9	14,711	13,949	7,259	6,847	7,452	7,102
Chippenham RegD/PLU		58,405	4,625	221	14	4,610	252	13	21,834	21,211	10,641	10,461	11,193	10,750
Calne RegD/PLU		28,610	2,004	60	13	1,939	88	3	8,923	8,620	4,348	4,203	4,575	4,417
Marlborough RegD/PLU		41,212	1,880	67	5	2,131	126	3	9,986	9,733	5,202	5,094	4,784	4,639
Devizes RegD/PLU		63,491	4,550	211	9	4,432	298	14	21,250	20,530	10,316	10,121	10,934	10,409
Trowbridge and Melksham RegD/PLU		17,768	4,109	239	41	4,040	449	17	18,417	18,077	8,550	8,383	9,867	9,694
Bradford on Avon RegD/PLU		18,800	2,418	197	7	2,438	202	11	10,646	10,860	4,999	5,047	5,647	5,813
Westbury and Whorwellsdown RegD/PLU		31,070	2,724	170	9	2,520	268	0	11,526	10,650	5,674	5,158	5,852	5,492
Warminster RegD/PLU		56,356	3,451	205	4	3,187	303	8	15,260	13,840	7,413	6,783	7,847	7,057
Pewsey RegD/PLU		76,490	2,921	115	9	2,720	168	6	13,386	12,403	6,764	6,288	6,622	6,115
Amesbury RegD/PLU		63,650	1,755	64	1	1,680	83	2	7,953	7,623	4,017	3,869	3,936	3,754
Salisbury RegD/PLU		55,877	5,198	264	41	5,534	444	67	25,534	27,225	12,173	12,909	13,361	14,316
Wilton RegD/PLU		55,795	2,365	61	38	2,256	123	10	10,900	10,250	5,463	5,053	5,437	5,197
Tisbury RegD/PLU		40,494	2,110	73	12	2,015	89	15	9,898	9,306	4,970	4,734	4,928	4,572
Mere RegD/PLU		32,904	1,815	105	8	1,691	131	3	8,105	7,349	3,937	3,594	4,168	3,755

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	Where the name of the Registration County in which a parish is situated differs from that of the County Proper to which it belongs, the name of the latter is stated in italics.
2	(W) or (W S) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, and has been included in the return; (w) or (w s) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School not belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, but has been included in the return. A statement of the number of persons in the principal Public Institutions in each district will be found in Table 6.
3	The AREAS which have been supplied by the Ordnance Survey Department are printed in Script type (e.g. Chessington 1250, sub-district 30 : 2). Those printed in French type (e.g. Charnham Street (Wilts) 2490, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Tithe Commissioners, and those printed in Arabic type (e.g. Baydon (Wilts) 3060, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Mr. Rickman, in the Enumeration Abstract for 1831. In these latter cases a more accurate estimate of the area is not at present procurable.
4	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 8.
5	Persons who, on the night of the 3rd April 1881, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included among the general population.
6	In cases where detached parts of parishes have been transferred by Local Government Board Orders under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61, the houses and population for 1871 have been corrected, that the figures may be compatible with those for 1881.

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