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Brixton poverty and wealth map reveals the area’s rich and poor divide

Thu 31st January, 2013Thu 31st January, 2013 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Created in the style of Charles Booth’s landmark Poverty Map, this new map covering the UK lets you view housing arranged by the Index of Multiple Deprivation or Output Area …

Brixton / London / Places

Did your street get bombed in the war? View Brixton WW2 bombsites on this fascinating website

Wed 5th December, 2012Wed 5th December, 2012 - by editor - 4 Comments.

A new project called Bomb Sight has produced an interactive website that maps the London WW2 bomb census data recorded between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941 – and it’s clear that Brixton took a bit of …

Brixton / London / Places

Brixton ranks low on London life expectancy rates

Tue 24th July, 2012 - by editor - 2 Comments.

This intriguing map uses a novel way to highlight London’s social inequalities, demonstrating how where you live can have a dramatic impact on your life expectancy rates.

London / Places / railways

Fantastic London transport map is a rail buff’s delight

Tue 22nd March, 2011Mon 21st March, 2011 - by editor - 7 Comments.

If you’re as cartographically obsessed as me, you’ll quite happily spend long hours poring over Ordnance Survey maps, archive maps, route diagrams and rail maps, and if you’ve any interest …

London / Places

London’s most common surnames listed by area and origin in a natty map

Wed 26th January, 2011Wed 26th January, 2011 - by editor - 1 Comment

Data-chewing whizzkid James Cheshire has imbibed a ton of facts from the 2001 electoral register to create an interactive map showing off the most common surnames in London by area.