HIGHFIELDS SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT Year 10

Name: _________________________

HIGHFIELDS SCHOOL

GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

Year 10

GCSE GEOGRAPHY

Data Collection Booklet

Coursework:

‘Castleton is a tourist honeypot’

‘Is Castleton a tourist honeypot?’

Time Activity Location

09:00 -

10:00 Travelling to Castleton

10:00 –

10:30

Sketching and photography in

Cave Dale (looking at human and

physical features)

Cave Dale

10:30 –

11:00

Ground floor land use survey

Landscape evaluation

Photography

Castleton

11:00 –

11:15

Traffic count

Photography Castleton

11:15 –

11:45

Visit Visitor Centre

Tax disc survey

Photography

Visitor Centre

and Car Park

11:45 –

12:40 Return journey to Highfields

13:50 –

15:30 Write-up results and methodology School

Journey:

Whilst on the coach, make note of the following… M

atlock t

o B

akew

ell

Landscape: rural / urban

Towns / villages /

isolated farms

Busy major roads /

country lanes

Factories / farms

Arable / pastoral

Lots of people & cars /

few people & cars

Bakew

ell t

o C

astleto

n

Landscape: rural / urban

Towns / villages /

isolated farms

Busy major roads /

country lanes

Factories / farms

Arable / pastoral

Lots of people & cars /

few people & cars

Methods of data collection

1. Field Sketches

2. Survey of pedestrians in Cave Dale

3. Environmental Quality Survey

4. Land Use Survey

5. Local authority tourist provision

6. Traffic Count

7. Pedestrian Count

8. Car Park Survey & parking management

9. Tax Disc Survey

10. Visitor Centre Evaluation

Data Collection Team

Names Task(s)

1. Field Sketches of physical features in Cave

Dale

Away from Castleton

Towards Castleton

Field Sketches of footpath erosion in Cave Dale

Erosion

Brief description of Cave Dale

What is it? Why do people go there?

What do you think of it?

2. Survey of pedestrians in Cave Dale

Number (including the Geography group): Type:

Families Groups (school) Older couples Young couples Individuals Groups (3 or more people)

3. Environmental quality survey

Location

-3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 dirty clean

crowded uncrowded

closely packed open spaces

noisy quiet

lots of litter no litter

ugly buildings character cottages

disruptive peaceful

ugly beautiful

Total

Overall total = ________

Location

-3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 dirty clean

crowded uncrowded

closely packed open spaces

noisy quiet

lots of litter no litter

ugly buildings character cottages

disruptive peaceful

ugly beautiful

Total

Overall total = ________

Location

-3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 dirty clean

crowded uncrowded

closely packed open spaces

noisy quiet

lots of litter no litter

ugly buildings character cottages

disruptive peaceful

ugly beautiful

Total

Overall total = ________

Location

-3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 dirty clean

crowded uncrowded

closely packed open spaces

noisy quiet

lots of litter no litter

ugly buildings character cottages

disruptive peaceful

ugly beautiful

Total

Overall total = ________

Location

-3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 dirty clean

crowded uncrowded

closely packed open spaces

noisy quiet

lots of litter no litter

ugly buildings character cottages

disruptive peaceful

ugly beautiful

Total

Overall total = ________

Location

-3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 dirty clean

crowded uncrowded

closely packed open spaces

noisy quiet

lots of litter no litter

ugly buildings character cottages

disruptive peaceful

ugly beautiful

Total

Overall total = ________

4. Land use survey

1 Car park 16

2 17

3 18

4 19

5 20

6 21

7 22 B & B

8 23

9 24

10 25

11 26

12 27

13 28

14 29

15 30

5. Local authority tourist provision

Note in the spaces below, any evidence of facilities

provided by the local council (e.g. ‘brown’ sign posts, litter

bins).

6. Traffic Survey Data Collection Sheet

Location Start time

Direction of traffic (from / to) :

Type of vehicle Tally Total number

Cars

Vans

Lorries

Buses

Motor bikes

Pedal bikes

Other

Additional notes / observations / comments

Location Start time

Direction of traffic (from / to) :

Type of vehicle Tally Total number

Cars

Vans

Lorries

Buses

Motor bikes

Pedal bikes

Other

Additional notes / observations / comments

7. Pedestrian Count

Location:

Approximate age

Count Total

0-4 years

5-16 years

17-25 years

26-40 years

41-60 years

60+ years

Location:

Approximate age

Count Total

0-4 years

5-16 years

17-25 years

26-40 years

41-60 years

60+ years

8. Car park survey

Cost of parking (photo of information board?)

Number of spaces (cars / coaches / disabled)

Number of cars

Number of camper vans / caravans

Number of coaches

Number of car parks

Car parking management

Look at opportunities for on-street parking … note down what

you see.

9. Tax disc survey

Look at the tax disc – on it, is written the name of the post

office where the tax disc was purchased. You need to write the

name of the post office in the box below.

Look around the Visitor Centre

Who is the information aimed at? What information is available? (list)

What services are provided for visitors? (list)