Geography Coursework

Is East Leake A Town Or A Village

Introduction And Aims

East Leake is a settlement located 4.85 miles (as the Crow files) North of Loughborough and 8.55 miles (as the Crow Flies) South of Nottingham this is shown in the map below.

East leake is only 10-15 minutes away from Loughborough this means easy access to Loughborough train station. The train station has links to all major stations including London in 1hour 50minutes. East Leake has access to the number 1 bus route to Loughborough and Nottingham. In the table below I will show the distances from East Leake to all village used within the survey.

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Village/Town

Distance From East Leake (miles)

Gotham

3

Costock

.3

Wysall

3.4

Barton

3.5

Clifton

9.6

Kegworth

8.1

Loughborough

8.1

West Leake

2.1

Normanton

5

From the question "Is East Leake A Town Or A Village" I feel that candidates are 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 on the field trip this includes location map, traffic survey and questionnaire. I will also use sources like the Internet to find pictures and location maps. I will 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 the town or village question.

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.

Definition of a Village:

village

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

settlement]

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

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"

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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.
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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.

The next piece of information I collected was the location map this was ...

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