streams – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:05:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg streams – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Ben Smith’s Maps of British Stream Names https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/10/ben-smiths-maps-of-british-stream-names/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:05:52 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=5525 More]]>
Ben Smith

Streams in Great Britain have many different names—brook, burn, stream, water—and it turns out that the variations are regional. On Twitter, Ben Smith has been posting maps of Britain’s obscure and idiosyncratic stream names. Atlas Obscura has more, and also points to Phil Taylor doing something similar with Britain’s lakes. Language maps, meet toponyms. [Benjamin Hennig]

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