1851 Census of Religious Worship
The 1851 Census of Religious Worship was a separate census from the 1851 Census of Population, gathering data on church attendance on Sunday 30th March 1851.
These data are taken from the published reports, which for England and Wales assemble data by Registration District, and for Scotland by counties and burghs. The data for England and Wales were computerised by Paul Ell as part of his doctoral research, and include some changes to the tabulated numbers based on information in the footnotes to the tables. The Scottish data were computerised later for the GBHDB, with funding from the ESRC and the UK National Lottery.
The data list, for each religious denomination within each area, the number of churches, the number of "sittings" (total seats available across all services on the census Sunday) and the number of "attendances", i.e. persons attending services. The only non-Christian group included were Jews.
Main topics
Data taken from the 1851 Census of Religious Worship for Great Britain.
Baptists
Bible Christians
Church of England
Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion
Independents
Methodist New Connexion
Primitive Methodists
Roman Catholics
Society of Friends
Wesleyan Methodist Association
Wesleyan Methodist Original Connexion
Wesleyan Reformers