4B.3 - How past and present connections have shaped the demographic and cultural characteristics of your chosen places

Question 1

Wootton: General information

Answer 1

• 2 schools
• Multiple places of worship - all Christian
• Good links to the A621
• Lots of new development
• Conservative bias
• On the rural-urban continuum, its a suburbanised village with old core

Question 2

Wootton: Economic activity

Answer 2

• 71% of people 16-74 are in active employment
  
  • 39.2% are in full-time employment
• 29% of people are unemployed
  
  • 17.6% are retired
• 28.6% of those working are managers, directors and senior officials (professional occupations)

Question 3

Wootton: Physical landscapes

Answer 3

• 984 hectares
• 36m elevation
• very green, marshland
• prone to flooding

Question 4

Wootton: Services provided

Answer 4

• religious buildings
• park
• schools
• shops and post office
• garage/petrol station
• library
• care homes
• pharmacy
• loads of bus routes through

Question 5

Wootton: What’s happened in the past 100 years

Answer 5

• long association with brick making
• much residential development in the last 50 years
• housing plans include 1000 new homes, salon, doctors surgery

Question 6

Kempston: Economic activity

Answer 6

• Police headquarters for Bedfordshire
• Big Sainsbury’s = shopping
• Bakery’s/corner shop/computer shops
• warehouses - Amazon
• Near Bedfordshire hospital - jobs

Question 7

Kempston: Physical landscapes

Answer 7

• On the bend of the River Ouse
• 52 acres of wood
• 40m above sea level
• high risk of flooding
• minimal elevation but still a small hill still has high population density and concentration of services
• floodplains either side of the river = unsuitable for development

Question 8

Kempston: Services provided

Answer 8

• TNC involvement - Tesco, Sainsburys, Subway
• local businesses - bakeries, computer servicing
• banks - Barclays
• health practitioners - Kempston Dental
• Police HQ/Fire Brigade
• youth clubs/education facilities

Question 9

Kempston: What’s happened in the past 100 years?

Answer 9

• underwent 2 boundary changes in the 20th century
• Parish’s changed 5 times in the last 100 years
• 5th biggest Parish in England
• 1989 - Ridgeway special school and child development centre transferred from the civil parish of Kempston Rural to Kempston