Tag: castles

• Haunted, or just old? What Britain’s ghost stories say about its buildings

  

  I set 260 reportedly haunted places against Britain’s 40,409 most important listed buildings. Haunted buildings are barely older than their kind, but castles are 9 times and inns 9 times as common among them, and churches almost vanish.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  British history, castles, data visualisation, folklore, ghosts, haunted places, listed buildings, pubs

• The Conquest in Castles

  

  I mapped 3,288 Norman-type castle sites across Britain. Only 113 carry a date from 1066 to 1199, and they show a castle frontier that leapt across England within a few years of Hastings.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  castles, data visualisation, Domesday Book, history, maps, Norman Conquest, open data, Welsh Marches