The Castleton Area of the Peak District requires a new management plan to cope with the increasing pressure of visitors.

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Castleton Coursework

Introduction

The Peak District National Park was created in 1951, is was the first ever National Park created in the UK, it is situated in Derbyshire and centrally located within the UK. I am going to create a study to find out if the hypothesis is correct. I am going to find out this information by including “graphs, surveys, field sketches and the analysis of this data. From all of this data I hope to conclude that the hypothesis is either correct or false, that the Peak District needs a new management plan.  

Hypothesis

        The Castleton Area of the Peak District requires a new management plan to cope with the increasing pressure of visitors.

Castleton Map

        The land use map of Castleton (map 2) shows you how many different kinds of shops there are; the types are Local, Tourist and Mixed. From studying the map I have worked out that the majority of shops in Castleton are mixed and tourist. This is because the Peak District is aimed more at tourism than at local people, there are several facilities which are in Castleton that are just aimed at local people such as the police station.

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Traffic Survey

I Have run a traffic survey to see how many cars/vehicles go past in a certain time, I run the survey for 5:00 minutes between 10:45 and 10:50, the survey was run at the bus terminus on How Lane (see map 2), these were my results:

        

        

Litter Survey

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