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Map Notes
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WELLER'S MAP of HAMPSHIRE, 1858, descriptive text
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Printed upper and lower right on the south sheet of the map is
descriptive text, part taken from the 1861 Census, with electoral
data, etc.
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AREA.- 1,070,216 acres, or 1,672 square miles.
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POPULATION (CENSUS OF 1861).- 481,815 (Isle of Wight, 99,746);
increase in decennial period, 1851-1861, 76,45, or 19 per cent.;
average density of population, 290 to the square mile. Number of
inhabited houses, 86,428; increase in decennial period, 11,190.
Families or separate occupiers, 103,967. Proportion per cent of
town population, 50.8; country population 49.2. Proportional
numbers per cent. of persons aged 20 and upward, in each of six
classes of occupations: Professional, 10.8; domestic, 40;
commercial, 4.5; agricultural, 14.7; industrial, 23; indefinite
and non-productive, 7. Blind from birth, 39; deaf and dumb, 228.
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MARRIAGES, 1861.
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Between Bachelors and Spinsters ... 2,988
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Between Bachelors and Widows ... 223
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Between Widowers and Spinsters ... 311
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Between Widowers and Widows ... 149
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Total ... 3,671
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Persons not of full Age, Men ... 161
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Persons not of full Age, Women ... 668
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Signed with Register Marks, Men ... 775
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Signed with Register Marks, Women ... 768
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BIRTHS, 1861.
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Males. ... 7,409
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Females. ... 7,074
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Total. ... 14,483
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Illegitimate. ... 822
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DEATHS, 1861.
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Males. ... 4,232
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Females. ... 3,994
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Total. .. 8,226
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Proportion to Population. ... 1 in 58
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.- There are extensive tracts of
moderately-elevated land, mostly belonging to the chalk range of
southern England. The surface of the county generally is
beautifully varied. in the south-west is the New Forest, the
largest tract of woodland in England; and, in the east, a smaller
wooded district, the Forest of Bere. Chief Rivers: The Avon, the
Exe, the Anton, the Test, and the Itchen. THE ISLE OF WIGHT.-
This beautiful island is included in the county. It has an area
of 99,746 acres, or nearly 156 square miles, and the chief stream
is the Medina.
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DIVISIONS.- There are 38 hundreds; 25 superintendent-registrars'
districts; 1 city, 2 county towns, 24 market towns, and 253
parishes.
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PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION.- Nineteen members are returned:
Hampshire North (registered electors, 3,630), 2; Hampshire South
(5,686), 2; Southampton (3,911), 2; Portsmouth (4,071) 2;
Winchester (914), 2; Andover (244), 2; Lymington (322), 2;
Newport (663), 2; Isle of Wight (2,259), 1; Christ Church (366),
1; Petersfield (332), 1.
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POPULATION OF PRINCIPAL TOWNS.- Winchester, 14,776; Southampton,
46,960; Portsmouth, 94,799; Alton, 3,286; Basingstoke, 4,654;
Christ Church, 9,368; West Cowes, 5,482; Fareham, 4,011; Gosport,
7,789; Lymington, 5,179; Newport, 7,934; Petersfield, 5,655;
Romsey, 2,166; Ryde, 9,269; Ventnor, 3,208.
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EDUCATION.- Parliamentary assistance is afforded to 248 schools,
of which 185 are National, and 17 British schools.
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CRIME.- In 1862, 488 males and 104 females were committed for
trial, and 1,083 males and 583 females summarily convicted. Of
those, 520 males and 192 females had been previously committed
once and less than five times; 57 males and 24 females from five
to ten times; and 25 men and 13 women over ten times.
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