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Registration of Union Counties.
Table 4. Area, Houses, and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes place comprised in each Registrar's District and each Registrar's Sub-District. [Census 1871, Vol. II., pp. 16 and 58.]
SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Area
in
statute
acres.
houses.
POPULATION.
Registrar's Sub-District.
Parish, Township, or Place.
1861.
1871.
Persons.
Males.
Females.
Inhabited.
Uninhabitd.
Building.
Inhabited.
Uninbabitd
Building.
1861.
1871.
1661.
1871.
1861.
1871.
27. Lewisham.
2 Lee
Lewisham. part of Parish .
370
807
25
R
969
80
29 j
4841
5947
1935
2390
2906
3557
3. Lewisham Village
Lewisham, part of Parish .
3781
1326
44
13
2099
268
68
7372
11613
3366
5182
4017
6331
4. Sydenham
Sydenham Chapelry (part
of Lewisham Parish)
1623
1666
62
77
3060
389
65
10595
19065
4555
7989
6040
11076
Lewisham (Entire Parish)
5774
3789
131
98
6118
737
162
22808
36525
9845
16561
12963
20964
1. Croydon
Battersea, part of Parish
Penge (g) Hamlet
770
668
54
76
1956
263
38
5015
13202
2250
6397
2765
7805
(g) Extensive Building operations have been carried on in and around Penge, which is a detached part of the ancient Parish of Battcream and locally situate in the
neighbourhood of the Crystal Palace. The facilities for communication by railway hare greatly contributed to the large increase of population. The other and principal part
of Battersea Parish is in the Wandsworth District.
*Note. In Table 7 of the Census, the proportions of Land and Water in these areas are stated (p. 27) as follows Lee; Land 366a., Water 4a.Lewisham Village;
Land 3744a., Water, 37a. ;—Sydenham; Land 1616a., Water 7a.; penge; land 749a, water 21a (p. 104).