Castleton - Human Fieldwork

• CASTLETON - Hypothesis

  • Do visitors have a negative impact on Castleton?
• What we did during our fieldwork

  • Traffic counts
  • Pedestrian counts
  • Environmental quality surveys
  • Drew field sketches
• Field sketches

  • good way to record information
  • good way to annotate observations
  • mark it on the map/name the location
• Castletown is a village located in the Peak District National Park, in central England. Mostly within the county of Derbyshire, but also nearby to Greater Manchester and South and West Yorkshire.
• Castleton is a town in the Peak District that has developed into a tourist attraction because of its; castle, caves and caverns and shopping.
• The town’s main employment is in tourism. In the winter there are fewer jobs.
• These types of towns can be dominated by services for tourists, therefore we wanted to find out if the impacts of tourism on Castleton were positive or negative.
• Risks of Human fieldwork

  • talking to people/the public - remain in groups for safety in numbers
  • getting lost
  • crossing roads - risk of cars
• Advantages of assessing Castleton

  • close to school - more time to collect more primary data
  • lots of tourist facilities - easy to see social, economic, environmental impacts of tourism
• Disadvantages of assessing Castleton

  • having only picked 3 locations to assess, those 3 locations had to be representative for the entirety of Castleton
• Castleton has many human and natural attractions

  • Caverns - Peak Cavern (Devil's Arse)
  • Pevril Castle
  • Mam Tor
  • attractive countryside surroundings