Tag: Hills and mountains

• Gallows Hill: where Britain put its execution places

  

  I measured 340 Gallows and Gibbet names on the OS map against fifty ordinary places each. They sit near towns but outside them, beside main roads, on low rises rather than high hills; the boundary story is faint.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Crime and punishment, Early modern, Hills and mountains, history, Line of sight, Ordnance Survey, place names, UK

• Dale, Down, Fell and Beck

  

  Brook in the south, beck in the north, burn in the Borders. I mapped every named stream, valley and hill in Britain to find where the lines fall, how sharp they are, and whether they follow the Vikings.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Dialect, Early medieval, Hills and mountains, landscape, language and dialect, Northern England, Ordnance Survey, place names, Rivers, UK, Vikings and Norse