TABLE 2. 
Area of Agricultural Land in England and Wales in five-year periods from 1871-75 to 1921-25 and in the year 1925, 
distinguishing the Area of Arable Land, Permanent Grass and Rough Grazings. 
(See Chapter IT.) 
Period. 
1871-1875 
{876-1880 
[881-1885 
[886-1890 
1891-1895 
[896-1900 
1901-1905 
[906-1910 
1911-1915 
1916-1920 
[921-1925 
1925 
lillage.* 
Thousands of 
ACTES. 
11,715 
t3. 979 
“32 
9 
oo 
ad 
15 
Arable land. 
Clover and 
Rotation 
Grasses 
Thousands of 
CPOs. 
“1 
Total 
Arable 
Land. 
Thousands of 
acres. 
14,766 
14,348 
13,747 
2,243 
2,676 
%356 
914 
444 
31 
805 
144 
682 
Permanent 
Grass. 
Thousands of 
acres. 
11,799 
12,802 
13,838 
4,560 
5,116 
15,239 
5,545 
15,903 
16,013 
15,075 
14,805 
15.073 
Total 
Cultivated 
Area. 
T'housands of 
acres. 
26,565 
27.150 
27,585 
27,803 
27,792 
27,595 
27,459 
27,347 
27,144 
26,880 
25,949 
25.755 
Rough Grazings :—Mountain, heath, moor or 
down land or other rough land used for 
2razing.t 
Returned by 
occupiers 
having sole 
Jrazing rights. 
Grazed in 
common. 
Potal Rough 
Grazings. 
I'housands of 
acres. 
Thousands of 
acres. 
Thousands of 
acres. 
2,880 
3,412 
3,614 
3,712 
3,786 
3,998 
4,873 
5.024 
3.465 
3.811 
3 020° 
533 
1,062 
1.104 
pd 
LO 
= 
Land under the plough in the year of the return. 
£ Prior to 1921 rough grazings were described as mountain and heath land used for grazing. 
i The area of common land Was not separately distinguished prior to 1921. A special examination of the returns for 1920 showed that 
only 533,000 acres of the common land had been included in the returns of that vear.