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Extract from 1831 Census

Area in English statute acres - 230
Number of inhabited houses - 102
By how many families occupied - 104
Number of houses under construction - 3
Number of uninhabited houses - 9
Number of Families chiefly employed in Agriculture - 39
Number of Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures and Handicraft - 55
Number of All other Families not comprised in the two preceding classes - 10
Total number of all inhabitants - 527
Total number of male inhabitants - 268
Total number of female inhabitants - 259
Males of twenty years of age and above - 116
Agriculture: number of Occupiers employing Labourers - 10
Agriculture: number of Occupiers not employing Labourers - 3
Labourers employed in Agriculture - 31
Number Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery - 0
Number Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicraft as Masters or Workmen - 56
Number of Professionals - 3
Number of Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural - 6
Number of Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) - 6
Number of Male Servants 20 Years of Age - 1
Number of Male Servants under 20 Years of Age - 0
Number of Female Servants - 22

This data from the 1831 census report made by D.Gatley

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