Tea bags · per 250g · 1836 Estimated
This figure may be significantly off. It is projected back 150 years from the first recorded price, using general inflation. Items do not track inflation evenly — groceries in particular were far more expensive relative to other goods before modern agriculture, so a figure this old can understate the real price by two-fold or more. Use it for a sense of scale, not as a historical price.
2.5pin June 1836 — about £4.18 in today's money.
- Price in 18362.5p
- Same money today£4.18
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£2.77
- Change since 1836+10880%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1836. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (February 1986) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 150 years. The further back it reaches, the less it should be trusted. Treat it as an approximation, not a historical fact.
- Source
- Office for National Statistics (ONS), dataset MM23. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Series title
- RPI: Ave price - Tea bags, per 250g
- Series
- CZNQ
- Estimated for
- June 1836
- Coverage
- February 1986 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 9.9 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- Back-cast
- 150 years before the first record · very low confidence
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0