The census records an urban majority

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1. Story
2. The 1851 census of England and Wales is conventionally cited as the first in which more than half the population lived in towns. The precise share depends on where the urban threshold is set, and the figure quoted varies accordingly; the direction of travel does not. It is the first time any national population is recorded as predominantly urban.
3. Knowledge
4. Manchester
5. Liverpool
6. Nineteenth-century British urbanisation
7. The census records an urban majority
8. Connections
9. Nineteenth-century British urbanisation
10. Manchester
11. Liverpool
12. Parliamentary enclosure
13. Manchester
14. The peak of parliamentary enclosure
15. Chadwick reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population
16. The census records an urban majority
17. The Bridgewater Canal
18. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
19. The steam engine
20. Nineteenth-century British urbanisation
21. Birmingham
22. The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
23. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
24. Chadwick reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population
25. The census records an urban majority
26. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
27. Raw cotton
28. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
29. The census records an urban majority
30. Evidence
31. Supports urban and municipal population growth and the conventional dating of the urban majority to the 1851 count. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted. No population figure is quoted anywhere in this pack, because township, borough and conurbation boundaries differ and the distinction cannot be made responsibly without the returns.