lympstone

Question 1

Where is Lympstone located?

Answer 1

-Its a village in East Devon
-Eastern shore of the Exe estuary
-10 miles south from Exeter
-population of 1750

Question 2

What are the Charactertistics of this place?

Answer 2

-Affluent commuter village
-House prices average £450,000+( well above UK average)
-low deprivation- in top 10 least deprived area in UK
-Conservation area with listed buildings

Question 3

What was Lympstone like in the past?

Answer 3

-Historic boat building village
-18-19th century they thrived in martime trade
-Post ww2: transition from working village to commuter settlement

Question 4

What is lympstones current economy like?

Answer 4

The shift to the ‘knowledge economy’
-30% People in managerial positions
-Self employment and home working
-Students with 5as-cs is over 75%- well funded education/access to private tuition
-65% own their own home
-growth in the quaternary- Met office in Exeter in 2003
-Exeter science park in 2015= 3000 jobs
-Exeter uni- worth £540million to local economy throught the multiplier effect from students

Question 5

What is Lympstones demography?

Answer 5

-Older age profile- high proportion over 65
-99% white, 1% non-white
-53.8% christian and 44.7% non-religious

Question 6

What are lympstones political views?

Answer 6

-Parish council- 7 elected council members- they maintain non-excludable goods such as street lighting
-East devon which contains Lympstone predominantly vote for conserative or lib dem

Question 7

How lympstone has changed overtime

Answer 7

used to be:
-small port for ships
-boats got to big for lympstone on the river exe
-Lympstone turned into a fishing port and became a beach/seaside town- attracted wealthy visitors- railway connected lympstone to Exeter in 1861- connected to urvan hubs- became a commuter settlement

Question 8

what is Lympstones natural features?

Answer 8

-19th century- fishing for shelfish and the using the North atlantic for whaling
-Mid 19th century tourists came to lympstone with wealthy victorians wanting to be by the sea
-railways arrived in 1861
-trading port with cross channel links in the 13th century
-banks of river exe

Question 9

what is the built environment here?

Answer 9

-detached/semi-detatched in modern subburb on edge of the village

Question 10

what are the shifting flows for lympstone?

Answer 10

-Meterorological office based here
-IT equipment, IT jobs
-commuter settlment- access to exeter and london(in 2 hours)
-many people are constantly protesting to protect old architecture like old churches
-the “knowledge economy”