Population. Comparative account of the population of Great Britain in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831; with the annual value of real property in the year 1815: also a statement of progress in the inquiry regarding the occupations of families and persons, and the duration of life. As required by the Population act of 1830 / [Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 19 October 1831.

  • Great Britain. Census Office.
Date:
[1831]
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Credit: Population. Comparative account of the population of Great Britain in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831; with the annual value of real property in the year 1815: also a statement of progress in the inquiry regarding the occupations of families and persons, and the duration of life. As required by the Population act of 1830 / [Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 19 October 1831. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AINSTEY OF THE CITY OF YORK: Specification. r Baker » - 1 Blacksmith, Horse-shoes - 4(5 Brewer - m 3 Bricklayer - 17 Brickmaker - 18 Mason or Waller - 8 House-painter - - 1 Butcher, Flesher - 25 Carpenter - 30 Cabinet-maker - - 4 Wheelwright - 29 Sawyer - 4 Carrier - - - 6 Cheesemonger - - T - 1 Coach-owner, driver, fyc. - Coal-merchant, Fuel Cooper - Currier - - - - - Earthenware, China, Pottery Farrier, Cow-doctor, Cattle-doctor Glazier, Plumber - Grocer ----- Huckster, Hawker, Pedlar, Duffer Maltster - Miller ----- Paper-maker r - r 2 3 3 1 Publican or Innkeeper, Retailer of Beer - - - - - Saddler - - - - * Shoe and Boot-maker, or mender 37 4 9i 2 2 2 7 7 2 10 J Shopkeeper < Dealer in sundry necessary Articles, such as are sold in a Village Shop - 28 Tailor, Breeches-maker - - 49 Tanner ----- 3 Whitesmith - - - - 1 (33 Trades) - 454 The Specification or Formula delivered to the Enumerators contained 100 Species of Trade or Handicraft. In the City of York, no more than Two of these were without a single instance, and 25 Species being added, the result is 123; so that a just medium seems to have been observed. In the Ainstey only 33 Species of Trade or Handicraft found instances for entry. The most striking results of a general Enumeration are those which place great towns in comparison with each other; and as the Population of the Metropolis cannot elsewhere be exhibited in one view, from the circumstance of its extending into two Counties, this opportunity is taken, of giving such a description of its several parts as may be necessary for the information of foreigners, and not unacceptable to the inhabitants of the British Empire. 1. London within the Walls is the parent City around which the Metropolis has spread itself in all directions. No place in Great Britain can have been an earlier resort of Commerce, London being authentically named as a celebrated Mart(l) before the Romans had subdued the natives into steady obedience. The situation of London was no doubt selected as at the head of a navigable tide-way, the deep water ceasing at London Bridge, and the River not being navigable for sea-borne vessels over the Vauxhall shoal. London is thus placed fifty Miles inland; an advantage the more striking, as although England is not extensive enough to produce a large River, such access of shipping is unequalled (except perhaps by the Elbe) on the Continent of Europe. This situation has always secured to the Merchants of London the Supply and the Export of a territory not less than 300 Miles in circumference ; and the superior power of assortment at such an emporium, has always enlarged their commerce in a greater proportion than this fortunate position naturally indicates. The unembanked Thames must have appeared as an Estuary of some breadth, in which the same quantity of tidal water, could have had comparatively little effect, and the Hill of moderate acclivity on which the City of London within the Walls is placed, must have been more remarkable and conspicuous than at present. (2) From the Eastern Ascent at Tower Hill to the Western Descent at Ludgate Hill, its extent exceeds an English Mile (3) by one quarter part, and the Walls extend to the Northward so as to inclose a space (1) Tacitus, Ann. Lib. 14. Londinium, cognomento quitlem Colonise non insigne, sed copia negotiatorum et commentuum inaxime celebre. [a.d. 61.] (2) After it became known that Low-water mark at Alloa, (thirty miles further up the Firth of Forth than Leith, the Port of Edinburgh) was actually many feet higher than the High-water mark at Leith, the action of the tide in Estuaries might have been expected to attract notice, especially as the Estuary of the Severn furnishes a striking instance of the up-hill rush of the Tidal wave in a narrowed channel. But the practical knowledge of the 1 ides has hitherto advanced so little, that a Circular Letter of Instructions to the several Custom House Officers stationed around the Coast of Great Britain, would produce more information in three months than is at present accessible. A rare instance of valuable knowledge within our reach, hitherto unaccountably slighted in a nation iustly priding itself on the higher branches of nautical Science. (3) The length of the English Mile is as Six to Seven, compared with the Geographical Mile, and its Area being exactly as Three to Four of the Area of the Square Geographical Mile, it is readily reducible to the only Measure which is universal in the civilized world.