Tag: Business names

• Does the 1974 border still show?

  

  I mapped every business in OpenStreetMap named after Lancashire or Yorkshire. My planned main test, in the places that left Yorkshire, could not be answered. But the old border is sharp where it did not move, and the Lancashire name thins in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  borders, Britain, Business names, Northern England, OpenStreetMap, Persistence test, place names, Present day, Twentieth century

• Lost kingdoms on the high street

  

  Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria vanished more than a thousand years ago, but their names are still on shop signs. 75 of 95 Wessex businesses are in Wessex, and all 33 Northumbria businesses are in Northumbria.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Anglo-Saxons, Britain, Business names, cities, Early medieval, England, medieval, Northern England, OpenStreetMap, Persistence test, place names, Present day

• Chips, curry or kebab? The UK’s takeaway map

  

  I sorted all 62,949 takeaways and 141,306 restaurants on the UK’s food hygiene register by what their names say they sell. The chip shop capital is the seaside, the curry capital is Hounslow, and the old Chinatowns still show.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Business names, cities, Classification, food and drink, maps, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Text mining, UK

• Barm, bap, cob or roll? Britain’s bread roll lines

  

  Roll, bun, bap, barm, cob, breadcake, teacake, muffin or batch? I mapped 20,038 answers from two dialect surveys, drew the lines where one word gives way to another, and checked whether the high street agrees.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Business names, Dialect, Dialect surveys, food and drink, language and dialect, Present day, UK

• What pub names remember

  

  I grouped every named pub in Great Britain by name: 37,559 pubs and 16,349 names. Kings, coaching, railways, the arms of great families, and the local names that give a county away.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Business names, Classification, food and drink, Monarchy, OpenStreetMap, place names, Present day, UK