Abstract
The unique census of religion taken as part of the population census of 1851 has never been subjected to a full statistical analysis, nor have those statistics been mapped at the level of Registration Districts for the whole country. This paper utilizes the statistics for the Church of England to illustrate the variety of measures of denominational strength and weakness that can be mapped. Few of these measures have been used in previous studies of the census data. It is shown that these measures provide a consistent geography of the Church of England in the mid-nineteenth century and that this varies substantially over quite small areas. A county-level areal base is consequently quite inadequate for an analysis of regional variation, even for the omnipresent Church of England. The utilisation of computer-generated maps at the Registration District level of resolution has enabled a much more detailed atlas of religion in 1851 to be produced.
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