Crop Returns for England, 1801

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The aim of the project was to extract the 1801 crop returns for England from the National Archives, Home Office Papers, reference PRO, HO67. The objective was to produce a transcript of the returns for subsequent publication. This was achieved in 1982/3 as Michael Turner (transcriber and editor), <i>Home Office Acreage Returns (HO 67): List and Analysis</i>, (PRO, List and Index Society, in 4 volumes, 189 and 190 in 1982, and volumes 195 and 196 in 1983), 827 pp.<br>
<br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The resource arises from a full transcript of the 1801 Crop Returns. The originals are contained in the National Archives, Home Office Papers, under the reference PRO, HO67. The 1801 Crop Returns were collected by the Home Office in a period of concern about two issues: the recurrence of poor harvest in the second half of the 1790s; and the suspected impending invasion by the French at the time of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The 1801 returns took the form of a census or audit of standing crop resources. The Secretary of State for Home Affairs devolved the enquiry to the bishops of the 26 dioceses of England and Wales that existed at the time. The bishops in turn organised their parish clergy to list the acreages of growing crops. The printed pro-forma employed for the purpose listed eight crops: wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, peas, beans, turnips or rape, and rye. Sometimes the clergy also volunteered the details of other crops and of other agricultural matters. The published collation of these details on a county by county basis, and within counties on a parish by parish basis, formed the printed version of the returns in 1982-3 and now also the digital version. Not all parish clergy were able to collect the required details, and some of the original pro-forma must have gone astray. However, something like 47 per cent by area of the parishes of England are covered ranging from over 80 per cent of Worcestershire, the Lindsey Division of Lincolnshire, and the Isle of Wight, to less than one per cent of Suffolk and zero per cent for Nottinghamshire. The omission of Nottinghamshire is a mystery since at the time it was mainly in the Diocese of York, and other counties associated with that diocese have on or over 70 per cent by parish area accounted for.<br>
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Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.<br>
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本数据集摘要的版权归英国数据服务中心（UK Data Service）及数据集采集版权所有者所有。

本项目旨在从英国国家档案馆（The National Archives）内政部档案系列（档案编号PRO, HO67）中提取1801年英格兰农作物申报数据，目标是完成该申报数据的转录工作以便后续出版。该项目成果于1982至1983年间正式推出：由迈克尔·特纳（Michael Turner）担任转录员与编辑，编撰《内政部耕地面积申报档案（HO 67）：清单与分析》（Home Office Acreage Returns (HO 67): List and Analysis），由目录索引学会（List and Index Society）与英国国家档案馆联合出版，共4卷，其中189、190卷于1982年发行，195、196卷于1983年发行，全书共计827页。

【核心主题】
本数据集源自1801年农作物申报数据的完整转录本，原始档案现藏于英国国家档案馆内政部档案系列，档案编号PRO, HO67。

1801年农作物申报数据的收集工作由英国内政部主导，彼时英国正面临两大核心关切：一是1790年代后半期连续爆发的歉收危机；二是法国大革命战争与拿破仑战争期间，法国即将入侵的潜在威胁。本次申报采用针对现存农作物资源的普查与审计形式：英国内政大臣将数据采集任务委托给当时英格兰与威尔士的26个教区主教，各教区主教则进一步组织所辖教区的神职人员统计各类种植作物的耕地面积。

本次采集使用的制式填报表格共列出8类作物：小麦、大麦、燕麦、马铃薯、豌豆、菜豆、芜菁或油菜，以及黑麦。部分神职人员还额外填报了其他作物及其他农业相关信息。1982至1983年出版的申报档案汇编按郡级行政区划进行整理，郡内再以教区为单位整合各项数据，该版本即为本次数字数据集的前身。并非所有教区神职人员都能完成要求的数据采集工作，部分原始制式表格也已遗失。

但即便如此，英格兰教区按面积统计的覆盖率仍达到约47%：覆盖比例最高的地区包括伍斯特郡、林肯郡林赛分区与怀特岛，覆盖率均超过80%；而萨福克郡覆盖率不足1%，诺丁汉郡则完全未被覆盖。诺丁汉郡的数据缺失尤为蹊跷：当时该郡主要隶属于约克教区，而同属约克教区的其他郡按教区面积统计的覆盖率均达到70%及以上。

请注意：本数据集未包含任何具体个人信息，因此无法用于个人家族史研究。