1. Edexcel GCE
Geography
Advanced Subsidiary
Unit 2: Geographical Investigations
Resource Booklet
Tuesday 19 May 2009 – Afternoon Paper Reference
6GE02/01
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2. Figure 1 (i) GIS Flood map for Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Flooding from rivers or
sea without defences
Mainly Extent of extreme
residential flood
Flood defences
Areas benefiting from
flood defences
Flood
Area of town’s
defences
CBD
were built
here in
2005
500m
Tributary of
River Severn
(Source: adapted from the Environment Agency)
(ii) Digital map of Shrewsbury
Train
station
Other GIS layers
available, e.g.
• Roads
• Railways
• Population
density
• Average
income
• Height
• Power lines
• Phone lines
• Water
supplies
Main road Main road
County bridge into bridge into
showground the town the town
(Source: Google Maps)
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3. Figure 2 Extracts from North Norfolk shoreline management plan.
Predicted shoreline retreat by 2025
Predicted shoreline retreat by 2055
Predicted shoreline retreat by 2105
A small Area of conservation
coastal town Important heritage area
Medium-term:
Allow retreat through
no active intervention needs to be cleaned up, i.e. grey
Map
Various coastal
defences used
at present , e.g.
rip-rap, groynes,
gabions,
revetments
Medium-term:
Hold the line through
Bacton gas terminal maintaining / upgrading
– important strategic existing defences
location
(Source: http://www.northnorfolk.org/coastal/documents)
(ii) Digital map of North Norfolk coast
Other GIS layers
available, e.g.
• Roads
• Railways
• Population density
• Average income
• Height
• Power lines
• Biodiversity value
• Water supplies
• Cliff geology &
stability
Main coast
Historic coastal defences in
road
place, e.g. groynes
(Source: Google Maps)
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4. Figure 3 Distribution of service outlets in ‘sparse’, ‘rural-urban fringe’ and ‘urban’
areas of England (2007).
Sparse rural Rural-urban fringe
Rural Urban England
Service Hamlet Village Hamlet Village
total* total total
Banks & building societies 2 20 28 30 1519 10152 11671
Cash-points (free) 22 43 253 342 2659 29180 31839
Main GP surgeries 9 32 36 240 1253 7174 8427
Jobcentres 1 0 2 0 38 771 809
NHS dentist 4 7 35 98 949 6848 7797
Petrol stations 71 110 585 957 2556 4783 7339
Post offices 113 331 380 2283 4726 6183 10909
Secondary schools 5 11 55 90 550 2756 3306
Supermarkets 6 9 25 62 977 5042 6019
(Source: State of the Countryside 2007)
*Note rural total includes rural towns and fringe areas.
Sparseness is a measure of remoteness – refer to map
Areas classified as
less sparse
sparse
0 50 100 km
(Source: Office for National Statistics)
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5. Figure 4 Information about Wem, North Shropshire
“How can we better
market Wem’s market
“The town hall town image?” (North
is vacant” (local Shropshire District Council)
councillor) “We nearly lost our
swimming pool in 2004.
“Too many shops are Now its only open on
shut – its like a dying a shoestring” (elderly
place” (local business- resident of the town)
person)
The images show a range of specialist shops Wem Fact File
as well as night-time food outlets • Wem is a ‘quaint’ small market
town in N. Shropshire. Population
(2001) of 5142.
11% of shop • Wem is the administrative centre
units vacant for the North Shropshire District
in 2006 Council.
• The High Street is home to
many different shops and local
businesses and the weekly
market takes place every
Thursday in the Town Hall.
• Wem prides itself on not being
35% of shop a ‘Clone town’. There is a rich
floor space diversity of shops.
vacant in • Wem has particular problems
2006 in the form of high level retail
vacancies, adverse impacts from
traffic and a limited number
of (higher order) comparison
outlets.
“It’s a wonderful place “I prefer to shop in Shrewsbury
to retire to” (new which is only 6 miles away”
retired in-comer) (mother of two children)
“Good high school “House prices are reasonable
here – 100% A-Level and it is easy to get to my
passes“ (school job in the West Midlands”
governor) (business commuter)
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