Toxteth And Lympstone

Question 1

% with v. Bad health

Answer 1

Lympstone= 4.1
Toxteth= 9.4

Question 2

% aged 16+ no formal qualifications

Answer 2

Lympstone= 14.1 
Toxteth= 27.2

Question 3

Owner occupiers

Answer 3

Lympstone= 66.1 
Toxteth= 24.0

Question 4

Pop density

Answer 4

Lympstone= 16.6
Toxteth= 87.8

Question 5

What 6 things make up the profile of a place?

Answer 5

Demographics, socio economics, built environment, natural, cultural and political charcteristics

Question 6

Past characteristics: Lympstone’s maritime past

Answer 6

Shipbuilding thrived in C19th

Estuary used for fishing and shellfish industry
-boats went to N. Atlantic to catch cod and hunt whales

Question 7

Past characteristics: Lympstone tourism

Answer 7

Began in the 1840s and attracted wealthy families from E. Devon and Exeter who enjoyed being by the sea

Expansion of built environment to accomodate visitors

Question 8

Past characteristics: impacts of time space compression on Lympstone

Answer 8

Allowed the shellfish industry to access a larger market

Local residents could travel to Exeter more easily. This resulted in it becoming a dormitory settlement for Exeter

Question 9

Past characteristics: Toxteth’s industrial revolution

Answer 9

Began to emerge as a major port with many associated industries (explains high pop density)

Flour milling and brewing developed to serve rapid pop growth

Question 10

Past characteristics: Toxteth’s residential developments

Answer 10

Housing scheme was an attractive greenfield site for MC who wanted to escape congestion and declining environmental quality of inner city

Question 11

Past characteristics: Toxteth’s poorly constructed housing

Answer 11

Built behind large villas. Lots of court dwellings

Unsantiatry and poorly constructed so cholera epidemics happened frequently (encouraged MC to move to suburbs)

Question 12

What has caused higher levels of unemployment in Toxteth?

Answer 12

Migration of docks further north has led to unemployment

Question 13

The knowledge economy in Lympstone

Answer 13

1/3 of employed residents are managers, directors or senior officials in professional occupations

They are a significant part of the flow into Exeter’s tertiary sector

Question 14

What has brought about high numbers of knowledge based jobs in Exeter/Lympstone?

Answer 14

The Meteorological Office’s relocation from Reading to Exeter

Question 15

Exeter’s growing higher education sector

Answer 15

Includes a university of 3000 members of staff, a major hospital and the regional headquarters of many firms

Question 16

EU funding in Liverpool

Answer 16

Structural and Investment Funds Strategy attempts to regenerate Liverpool’s profile

Liverpool’s low carbon sector has expanded with employment created in offshore wind technology