Tag: Northern England

• Does the 1974 border still show?

  

  I mapped every business in OpenStreetMap named after Lancashire or Yorkshire. My planned main test, in the places that left Yorkshire, could not be answered. But the old border is sharp where it did not move, and the Lancashire name thins in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  borders, Britain, Business names, Northern England, OpenStreetMap, Persistence test, place names, Present day, Twentieth century

• Lost kingdoms on the high street

  

  Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria vanished more than a thousand years ago, but their names are still on shop signs. 75 of 95 Wessex businesses are in Wessex, and all 33 Northumbria businesses are in Northumbria.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Anglo-Saxons, Britain, Business names, cities, Early medieval, England, medieval, Northern England, OpenStreetMap, Persistence test, place names, Present day

• 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

  Britain, Domesday, Domesday Book, history, medieval, Norman Conquest, Northern England, Persistence test, Present day, war

• Silver and Names

  

  The Vikings left two traces in Britain: buried silver and place names ending in -by, -thorpe and -thwaite. I put every listed Viking hoard on the map of Norse names. Mostly they agree, but Lincolnshire, with 294 Norse names, has no listed hoard at all.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Britain, Coins and hoards, Early medieval, England, medieval, Northern England, Ordnance Survey, place names, Vikings and Norse

• 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