TABLE 22.
Number of Holdings of various Sizes in England and Wales, in certain years from 1870 fo 1895.
(See Chapter VIL.)

Year. |

870
1871
1872
1875
| 880
1885
1889
{95

+ acre
out less |
than |
1 acre.

1 acre
to
5 acres,
both inelusive.


No. |

No. |

18.659

103,189

22,152
27,352

114,273
121.826
{33.372

Total
not exceeding

5 acres.

No.
113,050
121,848

136,425
49,178
133.372

Above
5 and
not exceeding

2() acres.

No.
127,761

126,674
129,250
126.714

Total
not exceeding

2) acres.

No.
240,811
237,999

263,099
278,428
260.086%

Above
20 and
not exceeding

Y() acres

No.
15,418

73,472
74,611
74.846

Total
not exceeding

50 acres.

No.
316,229

333,630
336,149
336,571
353,039
334,932%

Above
50 and
not exceeding

{00 acres

No.
54.569 |

54,498
74,369
54,937

56.791

Total
not exceeding

LOO acres.

No.
370.798

388,128
390,518
391,508

391.723%

Above
100 and
not exceeding

300 acres.

No.

el

Fu

65,766
66,373
67,024
68.277 |

Above
300 acres
and not
exceeding
( 000 acres.

No.

15,633
16,241
16.035

15.494

Above
1,000
acres.

No.

173
506
573

527

Total
above
100
acres.

No.
78,749

81,872
83,120
83.632

[4.298

Grand
Total.

No.
£49,547 |
69,4445!
181,422%
170,000
173,638
175,140
192,387
476,021%*

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* Excluding holdings of less than 1 acre, but including 35,554 holdings returned as of exactly 1 acre.
+ The totals of holdings in these years are not comparable with those for other years. These figures are numbers of returns received, and
in these earlier years when distribution of holdings by size-groups was undertaken the number of holdings was usually given as less than the
aumber of returns.