Tag: Lost places

• London’s buried rivers: what still flows in the open, and what runs in the dark

  

  I mapped every waterway OpenStreetMap records in Greater London. 228 km of it, about one kilometre in 6, runs in culverts and tunnels, and the Fleet, Tyburn and Westbourne are 97% underground.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, history, landscape, London, Lost places, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Rivers

• Drowned valleys: the villages flooded for reservoirs in the age of big dams

  

  From Capel Celyn to Mologa and the Lost Villages of the St Lawrence, I mapped the 100 places Wikipedia records as flooded by reservoirs. Most went under between 1930 and 1979, just as the world’s dam building peaked.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, landscape, Lost places, Rivers, Twentieth century, Wales, weather and climate, Wikidata, Wikipedia, World

• Ghost towns of the world: where places were abandoned, and why

  

  I mapped 5,448 abandoned settlements in open data and coloured each by why it emptied: mining, war, disaster, reservoirs, Chernobyl and medieval decline. 80% of Wikidata’s ghost towns are American, and only 5% say why.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  history, medieval, cities, population, industry, world maps, Classification, Data bias, Lost places, Twentieth century, Wikidata, Wikipedia, World

• Market towns that failed: what became of the medieval markets of England and Wales?

  

  Medieval kings licensed markets in their thousands, each a bet that a village would become a town. I followed all 2,173 market places in England and Wales to today: 665 are towns, 1,168 are villages, and a few are fields or sea.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, cities, England, industry, Lost places, medieval, Persistence test, Plague, population, Present day, Towns and cities, Wales

• Rotten Boroughs: Where Are They Now?

  

  Before 1832 Gatton had 7 voters and two MPs while Manchester had none. I mapped all 56 boroughs the Reform Act abolished: today 25 are villages, a hamlet or an empty hill.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Census, Cornwall, elections, England, Georgian, history, Lost places, Parliament, Persistence test, population, Present day, Towns and cities