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IN a recent letter Tracey Simpson-Laing stated that we didn’t have a census until 1851.
That’s incorrect.
The first UK census took place in 1801 and there has subsequently been one every ten years. The sole exception was 1941.
Dale Edwards, Newborough Street, York
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