Tag: Towns and cities
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Whereabouts: guess the mystery UK town
A daily map game: guess the mystery UK town in six goes. Every guess tells you how far off you are and which way to go, every miss unlocks a clue, and at the end you find out what the name means.
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Higher or Lower: a daily game of UK places by the numbers
Two places, one number: which is higher? A daily game built on 66 measures for every UK council, from pay, house prices and sunshine to the Leave vote, sheep farms and Druids, with a map so you know where they are.
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How many months a year are pleasantly warm?
Count the months whose average afternoon high is 18 to 27 °C and the average city dweller gets 3.6 a year. By 2041 to 2060 it is 2.9: months are lost at the hot end, gained at the cool end, and you can pick your own band.
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The turnpike towns: did the turnpike make the town grow?
England’s 1,245 turnpike trusts were founded in a rush in the 1750s and 1760s, and 10,927 of their milestones and toll houses are still recorded. But did the towns on the turnpikes grow faster? Not that I can see.
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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.
