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STATISTICS.

The geology, physiognomy, and character of the country, along the eastern base of the Malvern hills, differing, in many particulars, from that lying at the western, I have, in the following statistical details of the district, exhibited the results obtained from the two divisions separately.

Table 1.—Shewing the area and population of the several parishes in each division, the rate of increase in each, and the number of inhabited houses.

E A S T E R N D I V I S I O N		Area in Statute Acre.	Population.				Inhabited Houses.
			1801	1811	1821	1831	1801	1811	1821	1831
	Great Malvern	4340	819	1205	1568	2010	163	204	293	372
	Little Malvern	550	34	34	67	88	6	8	14	16
	Hanley Castle	5630	986	1186	1424	1653	176	197	256	286
	Welland	2100	334	391	453	490	64	75	94	109
	Redmarley	3580	689	775	955	1050	126	152	161	187
	Leigh & Bransford	6840	1492	1533	1810	2271	269	301	350	411
	Madresfield	920	153	151	202	191	24	35	39	41
	Newland	680	132	133	125	130	20	26	25	25
	Eastern Division	24640	4639	5408	6604	7783	848	998	1232	1447
W E S T E R N D I V I S I O N	Ledbury	8630	3058	3136	3421	3909	577	604	635	729
	Colwall	3800	635	665	782	909	111	99	142	161
	Mathon	3670	546	618	633	690	89	90	98	116
	Coddington	1510	194	208	184	164	28	31	29	34
	Cradley	6460	1317	1383	1459	1509	222	235	254	315
	Western Division	24070	5751	6010	6479	7181	1027	1059	1159	1355

From the preceding table, it appears that the number of inhabitants in the whole district, by the census of 1831, was 15,064; the number of