The Modern Pagan movement in the United Kingdom is primarily represented by Wicca and Neopagan witchcraft, Druidry, and Heathenry.
This estimate accounted for multiple membership overlaps as well as the number of adherents represented by each attendee of a Pagan gathering.
The figures for England, Wales and Scotland are as follows:[9][10] The overall numbers of people reporting Pagan or one of the other categories in the table above rose between 2001 and 2011.
Research conducted by Dr Leo Ruickbie suggested that the south-east of England had the highest concentration of Pagans in the country.
[14] Heathenry consists of a variety of modern movements attempting to revive Germanic paganism, such as that practiced in the British Isles by the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples prior to Christianisation.
Its first organised group was the Ancient Order of Druids, founded in London in 1781 along Masonic lines as a mutual benefit society and still extant today.
[dubious – discuss] The Ancient Druid Order, founded circa 1909, was the first that could be characterised as neo-Pagan, its founder being influenced by the occult movement of the late 19th century.