Tag: Persistence test

• What Became of the Abbeys?

  

  Henry VIII closed the monasteries of England and Wales between 1536 and 1540. I traced 808 of them to what stands on their sites today: more houses and churches than ruins. And the Cistercians chose quiet places, not empty ones.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, buildings, Early modern, England, history, Monasteries, Persistence test, Present day, religion, Wales

• How Roman is your road?

  

  Nearly two thousand years on, 5% of Britain’s A-road network still runs on a Roman line. Which county is most Roman, which road wins, and where you can still see the old road in the ground.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Itiner-e, Persistence test, Place search, Present day, Roads, Roman, Roman roads, Romans, Satellite and lidar, UK

• Is Domesday Destiny?

  

  In 1086 the Conqueror’s commissioners counted England’s households, village by village. I set every place they named against the 2021 census: size then barely predicts size now.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Census, cities, Domesday, Domesday Book, England, medieval, Persistence test, population, Present day, Towns and cities