Tithe Apportionment Analysis

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Analysing the Tithe Apportionment of 1839 reveals things that are not always obvious from the plain listing.

It gives us the opportunity to add together the plots to show how much land was owned or occupied by individual people, how much was under the different sorts of cultivation, etc.

Clicking on the column headings in the tables below allows you to sort the data in different ways.

Clicking on a row in the tables will take you to the Tithe Map - filtered to show you the appropriate plots.

The biggest landowner was listed as Henry Coombe Compton although he usually spelt his middle name Combe. He was an MP representing South Hampshire which is where he lived. He owned just over 10% of the land listed which was half as much again as the second biggest landowner (George Tilley Gollop).

The smallest landowner was William Tizzard who owned one plot of 25m² in Whitecross.

The top twenty landowners included four women, three Reverends, two Lords and, at No. 20, the Parish itself.

John Crode occupied more land than anyone else (6.6%), the vast majority of it owned by Henry Combe Compton.

Over 40% of the land was given over to arable cultivation, 25% was pasture and 20% meadow.

The most popular field name was Four Acres of which there were 44.

N.B. Please note that this page only supports the "Standard" search type.

Land Owners ⓘ

Owner	Area (m²)	Plots

Occupiers ⓘ

Occupier	Area (m²)	Plots

Cultivation ⓘ

Cultivation	Area (m²)	Plots

Field Names/Description ⓘ

Name	Plots

Anomalies

Creating the interactive Tithe Map has shown up a number of anomalies...

Plot 257 could not be found on the map. You'd expect it to be in Melplash and it may be at the fork in the road by plot 255 (with which it is linked) but the scan of the map is not clear enough to positively identify it.
804A & 804B are missing from the map. 804 is marked (N.E. of Purcombe). All three have been given exactly the same area in the Apportionment. It would appear that 804 encompasses all three on the map and the plot was split between them for the tithing.
1142A & 1142B are missing from the map. 1142 is marked (Salway Ash). See 804A & 804B above
1420-1423 (N side of the road in Whitecross) cannot be positively identified because the scan of the map is not clear enough.
1592 could not be found on the map. It is probably next to 1591 (South Bowood) but has been lost in damage caused by a map fold.
1739 has two entries in the Apportionment. The plot marked on the map is the pasture (Calves Plot) owned by George Hart and occupied by Thomas Stoodley. The house & garden owned & occupied by Giles Marsh Jun. is probably plot 1379 which is listed as "not used" in the Appoprtionment. It is marked on the map in Netherbury village centre and would appear to be linked with him in the 1841 census and a Deed of Admission from 1840.
There was not enough space to include a link for 1781 (Salway Ash) on the map.
Plots 1818-1824 (along the River Simene in Marshwood Vale, W of Broadenham Farm) had double entries in the Apportionment. Plots 818-824 (SE of Waytown) had "Not listed". Looking at the surrounding plots it would appear 818-824 were actually owned & occupied by John HEARN while 1818-1820 were owned by Elizabeth CARTER & Thomas BARRATT and occupied by Job TUCK and 1821-1824 were owned by Reverend Andrew TUCKER and occupied by James DUNHAM. This is how they've been entered here.
1921 is mising from the map. There are two 1221s, one where you'd expect it to be (Purcombe) and one where you'd expect the missing 1921 to be (along the River Simene in Marshwood Vale, N of Bidlake Farm). That one has been labelled 1921 here.
Plot 54 was completely blank in the transcrition supplied by the Parish Council. The version on ancestry.co.uk lists it as owned by Sir William Oglander and occupied by Clement Davy which is in accordance with the neighbouring plots. Even this version has no information for the size of the plot which may have been included in the figures for plot 53.