English Provincial City Populations 1700-1901

I recently posted a query trying to get this information.
I'm posting this (at D.J's suggestion) so they'll be
archived for anybody in the future.

data is in 000s

The source is:

John West 1983 Town Records Phillimore.

1700
Bristol 30
Norwich 30
York 10
Exeter 10

1750
Bristol 50
Norwich 36
Newcastle 29
Birmingham 23
Liverpool 22
Manchester 19
Nottingham 18
Sunderland 16
Exeter 15
Plymouth 15
Coventry 13

1801
Liverpool 86
Manchester 76
Birmingham 73
Bristol 63
Leeds 53
Plymouth 43
Norwich 36
Sheffield 31
Rochdale 29
Newcastle 28
Nottingham 28

1851
Liverpool 400
Manchester 240
Birmingham 232
Leeds 172
Bristol 137
Sheffield 135
Bradford 103
Newcastle 87
Rochdale 80
Norwich 68
Preston 68

1901
Liverpool 760
Birmingham 630
Leeds 428
Sheffield 380
Bristol 328
Bradford 279
Manchester 279
Kingston on Hull 240
Nottingham 239
Newcastle 215
Leicester 211

Roger Mills \(aka Set Square\)...

Interesting! Are there any figures for the overall population on those
dates? I imagine it didn't rise quite so fast, and that what we are seeing
is people moving from the countryside and gravitating to the cities.

Over the period quoted, the population of Birmingham seems to have increased
by a factor of 3 every 50 years. By that token, it would have been about 5.7
million in 2001 - so I guess it must have slowed down a bit in the most
recent 100 years!