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
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