Tag: towns

• 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.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, maps, towns, turnpikes, roads, milestones, coaching inns, transport history

• 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

  Black Death, charters, data, maps, market towns, markets, medieval, towns