The population of Welshpool and the border area changed throughout the Victorian as people moved about to earn a living.
Information about the local population
was recorded in the censuses which
were taken every ten years.
Men were employed to travel round the district recording who lived in
which house and what they did. The population figures are taken from these
records.
Britain was divided into parishes (shown on the map) and the figures record how many people lived in the parish. The parish usually consists of the village around the parish church and the area around it. Some parishes contain several small communities.
