Is East Leake A Town Or A Village?

Authors Avatar

Introduction and Aims

East Leake is a settlement, which is located 4.85 miles North of Loughborough, and 8. 55 miles South of Nottingham. This is clearly shown in the map below:

East Leake is only about 10-15 minutes away from Loughborough this means that there is easy access to Loughborough train station. The train station has links to all major stations including London, which would take around 1 hour and 50 minutes to get to. East Leake also has access to the number 1 bus route to Loughborough and Nottingham. In the table below I will show distances from East Leake to all villages used within the survey.

 

From the question ‘Is East Leake a town or a village’ I feel that I should be trying to collect and present information to prove whether East Leake is a town or a village. To do this I am going to use information discovered from the field trip; this includes location maps, traffic surveys and a questionnaire. I will also use photos from the field trip and annotate them to show and explain my ideas. On the location map I will indicate high/low order shops this will be one of the most conclusive pieces of evidence to answer if East Leake is a town or a village.

Definition of a Village:

village

     1: a community of people smaller than a town [syn: ,

           ]

     2: a settlement smaller than a town [syn: ]

Definition of a Town:

town

     n 1: an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a

          city; "they drive through town on their way to work"

        

From these definitions we can see there are no clear boundaries to separate a town from a village. This means there is often confusion between a small town and a large village.

Data Collection

Next I will go onto data collection this section is where I will describe the information I have collected and why it was collected. I will show I collected the data my self, using evidence and I will conclude with how I could improve the data.

I have collected photos of the settlement so they can be annotated and conclusions drawn from them to add to the evidence to answer the coursework question. Pictures are the best way to display information because you can compare a photo from the East Leake settlement to a picture from a Town or Village to show the similarities or differences. I collected these pictures whilst on the field trip this method was used because it was the most convenient way to collect the photographs.

Join now!

The next piece of information I collected was the location map this was given to the class in the form of a rough copy with the basic settlement aerial diagram this was then filled in whilst on the field trip. I was then given a best copy to this copy I added the order of the shops i.e. high order, middle order or low order. This was very useful because it is one of the most conclusive pieces of evidence; it is the clearest way to show whether a settlement is a town or a village. For example you are ...

This is a preview of the whole essay