Tag: UK

• The Listed Kingdom: every listed building in the UK

  

  I put all 465,740 entries on the UK’s four lists of listed buildings on one map, read their names to see what they are and their descriptions to see when they were built. Mostly Georgian and Victorian houses, with a great many churches at the top.

  Tristan Hotham

  Games & other interests

  data, history, maps, architecture, heritage, open data, listed buildings, UK

• High Street or Main Street? The UK’s street-name divide

  

  I sorted all 913,335 named streets in the UK by name. High Street rules the towns, Main Street the villages of Scotland, Northern Ireland, the East Midlands and Yorkshire, and every region has its own street words.

  Tristan Hotham

  Games & other interests

  data, dialect, maps, OpenStreetMap, Ordnance Survey, place names, street names, UK

• Chips, curry or kebab? The UK’s takeaway map

  

  I sorted all 62,949 takeaways and 141,306 restaurants on the UK’s food hygiene register by what their names say they sell. The chip shop capital is the seaside, the curry capital is Hounslow, and the old Chinatowns still show.

  Tristan Hotham

  Games & other interests

  data, maps, open data, food, takeaways, fish and chips, Food Standards Agency, UK