Place 2 (Wasdale)

Question 1

What does a county map show?

Answer 1

Shows where a place is in relation to others

Question 2

What does an aerial photo show?

Answer 2

The topography/ relief of an area

Question 3

What does an OS map show?

Answer 3

The height of land and topography/ relief

Question 4

What is a linear development?

Answer 4

The tendency for large towns and cities to grow outwards along roads has been checked by the green belt policy

Question 5

What is a suburbanised village?

Answer 5

Dormitory or commuter villages with residential workforce employed in urban areas

Question 6

What is a new or overspill town?

Answer 6

Designed both to accommodate the urban workforce and act as self-supporting alternatives

Question 7

What is an extreme rural place?

Answer 7

Commuting is relayed to accessibility. Outlying villages with poor roads or at a great distance from urban areas may decline or become targets for second home owners

Question 8

What type location is Wasdale?

Answer 8

Extreme rural

Question 9

What is the location of Wasdale?

Answer 9

On the western edge of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria.

Nearest small town is Egremont (6.5 miles north along the A595 that runs from Whitehaven to Barrow-In-Furness).

Gosforth is 3 miles inland from Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea

Question 10

What is the locale of Wasdale?

Answer 10

It is sparsely populated and remote

Contains Britain’s deepest lake

3 peaks challenge

Wasdale head pub hosts ‘greatest liar’ competition

Designated quiet area

Question 11

What is the sense of place of Wasdale?

Answer 11

Beautiful area for walking an other outdoor activities

Was voted Britain’s favourite view by ITV

Question 12

What is the Perception of Place for Wasdale?

Answer 12

An isolated and quiet area as doesn’t have much going on

Relies heavily on car ownership

Very green and large areas of natural environments

Question 13

What are the advantages of census data?

Answer 13

It is a legal document

Representative of the whole country

It’s compulsory

Question 14

What are the disadvantages of census data?

Answer 14

It’s every 10 years so can become easily outdated

The boundaries can change

Question 15

What type of data is census data?

Answer 15

Demographic

Secondary data

Quantitative

Question 16

How does the population vary between Seascale and Gosforth?

Answer 16

Seascale (2823) is almost double the population for Gosforth (1396)

Question 17

What is the diversity of Wasdale like?

Answer 17

Gosforth (1.8%) has a non-white percentage that is almost 10 times smaller than the whole country (20.2%)

Question 18

What is the levels of employment like in Wasdale?

Why?

Answer 18

They are high of between 12.3 and 17.5%

It is a rural area so large majorities are farmers

Question 19

What percentage of people in Seascale own their property out right?

Why?

Answer 19

50% of them

Retired people who have paid off morgage

Question 20

Why has the population of Wasdale varied?

Answer 20

The boundaries have changed.

Now people living in wasdale head and nether wasdale were counted as Gosforth whereas they weren’t before. Changed after 1891

Question 21

What is the mean age of Gosforth and Seascale?

Answer 21

Gosforth is 49.7

Seascale is 46.5

Question 22

What is the median age of Gosforth and Seascale?

Answer 22

Gosforth is 53

Seascale is 49

Question 23

What is the age of buildings in Wasdale?

Answer 23

Seascale is much younger (1945- 1954)

Gosforth and Wasdale are older (pre 1900)

Question 24

What is the approximate average for house prices in Wasdale?

Answer 24

The house prices are higher (100k to 150k) in Wasdale than in Whitehaven (under 100k)

Question 25

What is the top method of travel to work in Wasdale? Why?

Answer 25

Cars or vans Everything is isolated. The roads are poor and limited.

Question 26

What is the top method of travel to work excluding cars in Wasdale?

Answer 26

Walk or cycle

Question 27

Why might people in the area choose to work from home Wasdale?

Answer 27

Travel times are long to places like Sellafield

Question 28

What is the top industry in Wasdale? Where?

Answer 28

Manufacturing Sellafield

Question 29

What has happened to the population in Wasdale?

Answer 29

Has had a 1-5 % fall

Question 30

What is the main type of central heating in Wasdale?

Answer 30

Gosforth and Seascale is mainly gas Gosforth has some electric Sellafield uses oil

Question 31

What is the index of multiple deprivation like in Wasdale?

Answer 31

Copeland is amongst the 40% most deprived neighbourhoods in the country

Question 32

What is geospatial data?

Answer 32

Data that is associated with a particular location

Question 33

What are the advantages of geospatial data?

Answer 33

Visualises data Quick collection High accuracy

Question 34

What are the disadvantages of geospatial data?

Answer 34

Requires lots of data Violates privacy Data must be correct to be accurate

Question 35

What are the high deprivation factors in Wasdale?

Answer 35

Income- 88% Employment- 84% Health- 67% Education- 90% Crime- 98%

Question 36

What are the low deprivation factors in Wasdale?

Answer 36

Barriers to services- 4% Living environment- 28%

Question 37

What are crime rates like in Wasdale?

Answer 37

In March 2018, 74 Crimes were reported

Question 38

What are the indicators of health and quality of life like in Wasdale?

Answer 38

Life expectancy is lower than expected Less children in low income families High pupil average High percentage of people in employment High sickness levels Extremely high sickness absence High amounts of people killed or injured in traffic Low noise complaints Low homelessness

Question 39

What are the schools in the area like in Wasdale?

Answer 39

Only 2 primary schools Rated 2 = good

Question 40

What is the gross domestic household income for Cumbria?

Answer 40

£17,277 per head

Question 41

What has happened to the size and shape of Gosforth since the late 18th century?

Answer 41

The south east has become more built up with houses and hotels. The village used to be linear but now it is clustered and nucleated

Question 42

What type of housing is found in Gosforth?

Answer 42

Mainly detached houses with gardens but some semi-detached. They have been suburbanised

Question 43

Who might live in Gosforth?

Answer 43

People who work at Sellafield who have higher roles e.g manager or supervisor who have worked up the ladder and have a higher income Elderly people and families seeking the rural idyll

Question 44

What are the good points of development?

Answer 44

Creates more opportunities and involvement e.g sports teams Have relatively large threshold population

Question 45

What are the bad points of development?

Answer 45

The area becomes crowded and congested. The character changes and there may be a loss of sense of community

Question 46

What does demographic relate to?

Answer 46

Population

Question 47

What are the 4 types of migration?

Answer 47

International: Immigration Emigration Local-national: Immigration Outmigration

Question 48

What is possibly the biggest reason for in- migration in Wasdale?

Answer 48

The development of Sellafield nuclear site in the 1950s

Question 49

What age group has the smallest number of inhabitants in Wasdale?

Answer 49

20-24

Question 50

What is the population of over 65 like in Gosforth? What does it show?

Answer 50

Double the average for England which shows an ageing population

Question 51

What does the age of 20-24 show in Wasdale? Why?

Answer 51

Selective out-migration Limited jobs and higher education

Question 52

What is the most transient age group in Wasdale?

Answer 52

15-24

Question 53

What is the largest employment sector in Wasdale?

Answer 53

Manufacturing (19%) Employs around double the amount as accommodation and food (10%)