The Synoptic

For the synoptic unit, I am trying to find useful resources about Cumbria and related issues, so watch this space for anything that I may find that might be useful.

Following this link displays a colour copy of the resource booklet, which might be useful especially for the chloropleth maps for instance.

These websites are recommended for further research:

• visitcumbria.com - an extremely comprehensive site but you'd better get reading as there are over 1000 pages!! Much of the information is tourist-orientated, but some links are well worth a look, especially the introduction for general background info.


• westlakesrenaissance.co.uk is particularly useful as the West Lakes Renaissance features in figures 6 and 9. The urban regeneration company is helping the economic revival of Furness and West Cumbria. Over the next 10 years £200 million will be invested into a series of projects, and used to create 5,000 new jobs, encourage substantial private sector investment and open up new opportunities for businesses


• cumbria-investment.co.uk has some really useful information including some key facts on the regions and industries (applicable to figure 2) the workforce and education (applicable to figure 5b) transport and communications.