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The actual
recorded figures for the population of the parish were:- |
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In
the year 1841 - 647 people
In the year 1851 - 596
In the year 1861 - 602
In the year 1871 - 568
In the year 1881 - 486
In the year 1891 - 457
In the year 1901 - 430
As
in the other rural parishes in the area most of the inhabitants were involved
in farming or working on the land in some way in Victorian times.
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Compare this
graph with those of other parishes in the area.
Is the overall trend the same?
Why do you think the population declined in the later Victorian period? |
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