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.