Tag: dragons

• Here be dragons: do Britain’s dragons live by the church?

  

  I put 26 named dragon legends and 135 Dragon, Drake, Worm and Serpent place names on the map. The legends cling to the parish church (77% within 1 km, against 55% of comparable places); barrows, hillforts and rivers barely matter.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  barrows, British history, churches, data visualisation, dragons, folklore, maps, place names