Tag: Remoteness and access

• The middle of nowhere: the places on Earth farthest from any town

  

  I measured how far every point on land is from the nearest town of 1,000 people. A quarter of the land outside Antarctica is more than 100 km from one; the most landlocked place on Earth is just 65 km from one; and Britain’s middle of nowhere is near Cape Wrath.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, GeoNames, landscape, Natural Earth, Present day, Remoteness and access, World, world maps

• Bus deserts: the villages with no bus and the last bus home

  

  I counted every timetabled bus in England on a Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday and checked every village. 41% have no stop with four or more weekday buses within 800 metres, 62% have no bus after seven in the evening and 68% have none on Sunday.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, England, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Remoteness and access, Transport

• School catchments: how much of the UK does one school serve?

  

  Every one of the UK’s 27,024 state schools, the official catchments that 33 councils publish openly, and nearest-school zones everywhere else. The biggest catchment, Golspie High School, covers 2,215 km².

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Education, population, Present day, Remoteness and access, Scotland, UK

• The footpath capital of Britain

  

  Which part of Britain has the most public footpaths per square mile? From the councils’ own data: Rossendale, with 7.7 miles of right of way per square mile, and the South Pennine mill towns fill the top ten. Powys has the most per person; Harrow the fewest of anywhere with a definitive map.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, England, landscape, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Remoteness and access, Wales, Walking routes