'Analysis on settlement hierachy coursework\r'

'In my introduction of my investigating I do a opening that give tongue to, â€Å"the resolvings of Pres cardinalod and Wendover portray the law of closure pecking order.” I predicted that Presdeuceod was a bear-sized colonisation and Wendover was a scurvy town, and I said that I would try and prove this by observing and comparing the twain blockages with severally other. Over the last four months I fix investigated this hypothesis thoroughly and my results and selective information presentation contain proved that my hypothesis was correct.\r\nI nominate collected this selective information in various different techniques, and my main technique was the questionnaire, which I carried turn up in both solutions. Some of which is particular information, like the questionnaire which I designed, the photographs which I took of particular work and characteristics in each shut pop tabu which I collected all myself; and any(prenominal) of it is unessenti al information like the entropy which I collected from the Aylesbury reference library.\r\nMy info helps show that the devil exterminations that I carried egress my investigating in, Prestwood and Wendover argon placed in some sort of direct in the closing hierarchy. Prestwood is the shrimpyer resolve of the two with a nation of 7124 passel, and Wendover creationness the bigger small town of the two having a macrocosm of 8612 pile; I collected this data form the Aylesbury reference library.\r\nAlso in Wendover in that respect is a wider rove of places where the mickle surrender forebodeed from in Wendover, whereas in Prestwood the bulk of commonwealth haggleed from deep down the firmness of purpose and so I sketched come forth a body politic put on survey of the go and whether or non they were full(prenominal) or measly. afterwards examining and comparing each of the extermination diagrams I realized that at that place is mettlesomeer beat of m unrivaledy of high point operate in Wendover than Prestwood which symbolizes a nonher characteristic of a town.\r\nWhilst amass my data for my questionnaire I had to write rectify the function available and whether they were moo or high go.\r\nI undercoat aside that Wendover has a big add of work available than Prestwood and so more sight would visit the gag rule due to the wider range of operate.\r\nI carried fall step forward a employment survey in any case and I found out that Wendover has a higher(prenominal)(prenominal) median(a) of vehicles passed per minute in a wide awake part of the resolving power than Prestwood.\r\n1. What argon the commonwealths of the two villages?\r\nTo investigate round this question I researched and collected information from the Aylesbury reference library. During my visit in that respect I found out the population of each settlement. I observe that the population of sight living in Prestwood is 7124 population.\r\nI also found that Wendover has a population of 8612 people.\r\nDue to the fact that I found out that Wendover has a turgidr population of people than Wendover it gives us the conjecture that it is a queen-sizer settlement also and more likely to be give tongue to as being a town than a colonisation. This makes my theory and prodigy correct, when I stated that the intumescentr settlement would possess a larger population.\r\n2. What work ar available in each settlement? (Low/High)\r\nThe settlement of Wendover contains of a large arrive of offset, medium and high roam run, with a total account of 10 paltry order, 21 medium order and 10 high order go. In the accepted bea of which I carried out my investigation in that respect were a shape of 10 pathetic and medium order services and 8 high order services.\r\nThe settlement of Prestwood contains mostly medium order services with some low order and whizz or two high order services. In the plastered area of whic h I carried out my investigation in Prestwood there were a play of 10 low and medium orders services and 6 high order services.\r\nThese facts agree with my theory and prediction of; the settlement with the larger population would hand a larger number of high order services and the smaller settlement would have a larger lot of low and medium order services. I think that this is true due to the fact that if there are more people living in the settlement there will correspondingly have a range of low, medium and high order services.\r\n3. How farther do people lead to visit Prestwood and Wendover for their services? (High/Low)\r\nDuring my investigation I carried out a questionnaire to find out information about this question.\r\nIn the settlement of Wendover people proceedled from distant surroundings like the outskirts of Aylesbury and Princes Risborough. Whereas in the settlement of Prestwood I found out that there are only very fewer people whom visit the services actuall y impertinent Prestwood, let alone locomotion a long maintain to do the services. I also discovered whilst carrying out my questionnaire in Wendover that most people whom have visited from a distance used the high order services, while on the contrary the settlement of Prestwood most people visited to use the low order services.\r\nThese statistics give me the impression that people are only willing to travel a long distance to use the high order services sooner than in Prestwood most people have traveled from within the village or the outskirts of it. Due to the fact that there are more high order services available in Wendover may be the reason in why there is a higher heart of people using the services, and why more people have travelled to Wendover from a distance than Prestwood. From my questionnaire research I found that the popular upper limit people travel to visit Prestwood is the settlement of Gt. Kingshill, which is only 3 proceedings away from the services. I have not included the person whom visited from Aylesbury or Hughenden or the person whom was passing through, due to the number for each was so little. In extent, the maximum length people travel to use the services of Wendover was the settlements of Gt. Missenden and Prestwood, which is roughly 7 miles.\r\n4. Do the number of services available job the population of each settlement?\r\nIn Wendover the number of services does reflect the population of the settlement; this is due to having the population of a small town, being smaller than the large town and bigger than a large village. This is corresponding in the amount of the services and the type of order of the services, as there are more services, with a higher order than the small village however a smaller amount of services than the large town.\r\nIn Prestwood the number of services does also reflect population of the settlement; this is due to having the population of a large village, being smaller than a small town barely la rger than a small village. This also corresponds in the amount of the services and the type of order of the services within the settlement.\r\nThese statistics prove my prediction to be accurate due to the fact that I stated that the larger settlement, the higher the number of services available and the smaller the settlement the lower the number of services available.\r\n5. How umpteen vehicles pass in a certain place of each settlement?\r\nIn the certain area of which I carried out my employment survey in Wendover there seemed to be an awful lot more vehicles passing than in the area in Prestwood.\r\nI encountered that the clean number of vehicles passed in Wendover was 22.467, which is a reasonable high amount.\r\nThe average number of vehicles in Prestwood was 15.867.\r\nThese statistics symbolizes the difference of traffic between a town and a village. The larger the settlement the more cars travelling throughout. In my opinion this is due to the population of Wendover being more then Prestwood being higher and so accordingly there should be a higher amount of cars travelling about.\r\nThe data I garner follows the theories I introduced in my introduction precisely, this states about the Settlement Hierarchy. All the settlements followed the settlement hierarchy. This theory states that the smaller the settlement and population the little frequency and quality of the services. Therefore the small towns, with small populations, have very few services and the ones that it does are of low quality. oppositely the large settlements, with large populations, will have more services which are of mitigate quality.\r\nI tush see this bm of data in my results and data presentation. Prestwood has a smaller population so pursue my theory it should have fewer services which are mostly of high and low order services, and from my data I can see that is true. Wendover is a larger settlement and has a larger population so, in agreement with my theory, it should ha ve more services, which are of a high order.\r\nDuring the duration in which I carried out my questionnaire in Prestwood I asked a man where he had travelled from to use the service he had used, and he replied that he was from Newport in Wales and had come down to visit some of his family. Due to this being very unusual answer I counted his data as an anomaly and did not include it in my results table or in any of my graphs. This interpretation does not relate to my knowledge of the area and that is one of the reasons in which I have not included this in my data. Another is that it does not agree and correspond with my theory and is a one-off occurrence during my investigation.\r\nAs I have stated before, the settlement of Wendover would obviously be placed preceding(prenominal) Prestwood in the settlement hierarchy.\r\nBut if I were asked to place them befittingly on the settlement hierarchy this is where I would.\r\nAs you can see above I have placed the two settlements appropr iately; Wendover is plotted beside the small town section and Prestwood at the top of the village section which is symbolizing that its is not preferably a small town but a large village.\r\nIn conclusion, during the time that I have carried out my investigation on whether â€Å"the settlements of Prestwood and Wendover demonstrate the settlement hierarchy” I have discovered many factors in thorough detail.\r\nI have found out that the settlement of Wendover and the settlement of Prestwood do in fact demonstrate in some order the settlement hierarchy.\r\nFrom my own knowledge, experiments and techniques I have make an opinion of my own that Prestwood is a large village and Wendover is a small town.\r\nI have discovered through secondary information from the Aylesbury reference library that the settlement of Prestwood has a population of 7124 people, and Wendover, the larger settlement of the two has a population of 8612 people.\r\nI have also established that the two settlem ents of Wendover and Prestwood also demonstrate the order of services hierarchy due to finding out that the larger population the larger the number of high order services and the smaller the settlement the larger percentage of low and medium order services.\r\nThe larger the population the higher the number of services within and so there is a higher majority of people visiting from far distances.\r\nThe higher the number of services in the settlement the larger the population and the larger the settlement the busier the roads and the higher amount of vehicles passing.\r\n'