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and Wixford multipliers of 4 and 5 seemed more appropriate. 41
The figure circa 1780 for
Exhall includes the chapelry of Wixford, while for Inkberrow and Stock and Bradley the
number of inhabitants was given as well as the number of families. 42
As in Zones A and
B, these figures suggest uneven growth or stagnation in many parishes between 1676 and
1780.
Table 3.9 Baptism numbers in parish registers in Zone C, The Central (Wood-pasture)
Belt 1575-1810
Baptisms (9 year moving average) 1575 1675 1710 1735 1760 1780 1810
Abbots Morton 4.6 5.4 5.4 4.4
Arrow (with Oversley) 6.6 9.8 9.0 5.9 10.7
Aston Cantlow *13.3 21.1 17.4 15.4 24.3 23.4
Billesley *0.4
Binton 3.9 4.4 4.6 4.6 6.3 6.6
Dormston 3.7 2.6 6.7
Exhall (with Wixford) 4.2 4.2 2.0 *5.9 7.4
Gt Alne 5.3 8.3 8.7
Haselor 6.9 8.0 7.6 9.0 11.4
Inkberrow *25.8 22.0 29.6 29.7 34.2 49.2
Kington 4.3 6.4 3.4 3.8 5.3
Kinwarton *2.0 *2.4 *5.3 0.7 0.4 1.9
Morton Bagot 3.9 5.1 3.3 6.2 4.6
Oldberrow *1.9 3.0 3.8 3.4 5.2 6.3
Rous Lench 5.2 4.8 6.1 5.7 7.2 5.8
Spernall 2.2 2.8 3.7 3.6 1.6 3.2
Stock & Bradley 7.6 6.0 5.2 4.2 4.2 6.2 9.3
Temple Grafton 7.7 6.6
* See footnote for explanation 43
41 Figures for Billesley were not available for 1676. In order to obtain an overall figure for this zone’s
population in 1676 (used in Table 3.14 and 3.15) an estimate was used for Billesley of between 10 and 15.
The number of households in the 1670 Hearth Tax (where known) are as follows: Arrow (with Oversley)
60, Aston Cantlow 105, Exhall 15, Great Alne 53, Haselor 58, Kinwarton 14, Morton Bagot 40, Spernall
16, Temple Grafton 47, Wixford 23.
42 For each parish the figure c. 1780 is from the number of families in Ransome ‘The State of the Bishopric
of Worcester’ multiplied by 4 and 5 respectively. Inkberrow had 889 inhabitants and 215 families, Bradley
had 124 inhabitants and 28 families. According to Eden, The State of the Poor, pp. 803-804,
(http://find.galegroup.com/ecco, 3.30 p.m., 22 Feb. 2010), in 1761 Inkberrow had 214 families and 947
inhabitants, in 1770 215 families and 889 souls (as in Ransome), and 300 families returned to Bishop North
in 1776. Inkberrow’s population was thought to have grown further to 1795, as confirmed in Table 3.10.
43 1675 figures for Aston Cantlow are based on 1677, for Inkberrow on 1680 and for Oldberrow on 1679.
Kinwarton’s figures before 1760 probably also include Great Alne. Exhall’s parish register also contains
Wixford. The 1780 figure for Exhall is actually based on 1781. The first available figure for Billesley is
based on 1822 not 1810.
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