Picture above – View north-west through gap in the hedge from west end of Westfield Rd., Barton. Although not always relevant to the topic of density of population, the alternating ‘densities’ along both banks of the Humber Estuary are interesting. Starting near the mouth of the Humber on the south bank stands the seasonal high density […]

So knowledge of/control of a nation’s population is essential to the efficient management of a nation’s economy, welfare provision and future planning. My personal opinion is that ‘free movement of labour’ within the, then, Common Market made some sense within a few like-minded nations – if only because back then it was to the advantage of

Of course the overall figure of persons per square mile across the whole area of a nation is a crude yardstick. In the case of Britain, for example, the new housing policy immediately following the Great War (‘Homes for Heroes’) required a density of new-builds, mostly for working class people, of four to the acre. Given

A clear knowledge of the total population figure is fundamental to the functioning of a modern country. Forward planning by the government for all social and economic policies relies on this knowledge. Obviously in the 21st century the government needs to know much more than the global figure but the basic premise still stands. Governments through history

In often heated debates in/on the media in the last few years related to immigration and its associated phrases such as; racism, economic migrants, E.C. policy of free movement and the looming possibility of migrants driven by climate change I have yet to here any commentator, academic or politician home-in on density of population statistics.

In the Country Park at Barton on Humber, in an area between the Visitor Centre (T.I.C.) and the Humber bank promenade is an arcing area of land where plants and grasses have been allowed to develop naturally. Nestling amongst the plants is a willow twig statue entitled ‘Daphne’. Daphne was a female fallow dear that,