4B.3 - How past and present connections have shaped the demographic and cultural characteristics of your chosen places Flashcards
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Wootton: General information
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- 2 schools
- Multiple places of worship - all Christian
- Good links to the A621
- Lots of new development
- Conservative bias
- On the rural-urban continuum, its a suburbanised village with old core
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Wootton: Economic activity
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- 71% of people 16-74 are in active employment
- 39.2% are in full-time employment
- 29% of people are unemployed
- 17.6% are retired
- 28.6% of those working are managers, directors and senior officials (professional occupations)
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Wootton: Physical landscapes
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- 984 hectares
- 36m elevation
- very green, marshland
- prone to flooding
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Wootton: Services provided
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- religious buildings
- park
- schools
- shops and post office
- garage/petrol station
- library
- care homes
- pharmacy
- loads of bus routes through
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Wootton: What’s happened in the past 100 years
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- long association with brick making
- much residential development in the last 50 years
- housing plans include 1000 new homes, salon, doctors surgery
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Kempston: Economic activity
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- Police headquarters for Bedfordshire
- Big Sainsbury’s = shopping
- Bakery’s/corner shop/computer shops
- warehouses - Amazon
- Near Bedfordshire hospital - jobs
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Kempston: Physical landscapes
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- On the bend of the River Ouse
- 52 acres of wood
- 40m above sea level
- high risk of flooding
- minimal elevation but still a small hill still has high population density and concentration of services
- floodplains either side of the river = unsuitable for development
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Kempston: Services provided
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- TNC involvement - Tesco, Sainsburys, Subway
- local businesses - bakeries, computer servicing
- banks - Barclays
- health practitioners - Kempston Dental
- Police HQ/Fire Brigade
- youth clubs/education facilities
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Kempston: What’s happened in the past 100 years?
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- underwent 2 boundary changes in the 20th century
- Parish’s changed 5 times in the last 100 years
- 5th biggest Parish in England
- 1989 - Ridgeway special school and child development centre transferred from the civil parish of Kempston Rural to Kempston