Tag: Lancashire

• Canal Mania: Did the Canal Towns Boom, and Do They Still Lead?

  

  England’s canal towns grew about 4.0 times over between 1801 and 1861. But they were rising before the canals came, and today they are bigger, not richer.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  canals, Census 2021, data visualisation, history, Industrial Revolution, Lancashire, maps, open data

• Laid Waste: the Harrying of the North

  

  Domesday Book called hundreds of northern places waste after William the Conqueror’s Harrying of the North. I mapped them: Yorkshire was worth 35% of its 1066 value, the waste climbed the hills rather than the roads to York, and its scar on today’s map is faint.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data visualisation, Domesday Book, Harrying of the North, history, Lancashire, maps, Norman Conquest, Yorkshire