page_title: Beit Ur al-Fauqa
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Beit Ur al-Fauqa / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial view of Beit Ur al-Fauqa (Upper Beth Horon)
context_page_description: Beit Ur al-Fauqa is a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, 14 kilometers west of Ramallah and 3 kilometers southeast of Beit Ur al-Tahta. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 864 in the 2007 census.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Beit 'Ur al-Fuqa had a population of 147, all Muslim. By the time of the 1931 census, Beit 'Ur al-Fauqa had 47 occupied houses and a population of 173, still all Muslim.
  In the 1945 village statistics the population was 210, all Muslims,  while the total land area was 3,762 dunams (3.762 km²; 1.453 sq mi), according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 989 dunams (98.9 ha; 244 acres) were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,277 dunams (127.7 ha; 316 acres) for cereals, while 26 dunams (2.6 ha; 6.4 acres) were classified as built-up (urban) areas.
caption: Aerial view of Beit Ur al-Fauqa, 1931
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