Summary information

Study title

Allotments Historical Data Collection, 1793-1873

Creator

Burchardt, J., University of Reading

Study number / PID

8808 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-8808-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


The Allotments Historical Data Collection is a set of seven data sets relating to the history of allotments in England between 1793 and 1873. The largest of these data sets is the Combined Allotments Database, which consists of 3503 records for 2281 unique allotment sites, each record containing 22 fields. This is the only systematic list of nineteenth-century English allotments and their attributes (such as number of tenants, plots, plot size, rent etc) in existence.  It was assembled in two phases, the first between 1992 and 1997 as part of the research for a PhD, and the second between 2003 and 2010 as part of the Family and Community Historical Research Society's Allotments Project.  This second phase drew on the voluntary efforts of about 30 local historians.

Further information can be found on the Family and Community Historical Research Society website.


Main Topics:

Allotments, 1793-1873

Allotment sites, 1793-1873

Allotment tenants, 1793-1873

Allotment societies, 1793-1873

Allotment site rules, 1793-1873

Allotments, other attributes (including rents, plot size, site size, landlords etc), 1793-1873

Methodology

Data collection period

30/09/1991 - 01/01/2010

Country

England, Isle of Man

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Administrative units (geographical/political)
National

Universe

Not available

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Text
Numeric

Data collection mode

Compilation/Synthesis

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2021

Terms of data access

  The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Related publications

Not available