Tag: Tudor history

• Fire on the Hills: how fast could the Armada beacons carry the news?

  

  I traced the lines of sight between 193 hills named for a beacon and lit a fire at the Lizard. On the names alone it never leaves Cornwall; fill the gaps and it reaches London in 9 hops.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  beacons, data visualisation, England, line of sight, maps, place names, Spanish Armada, Tudor history