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All the fish and chip shops in the UK

Previously we found all the post offices, ATMs, and pubs in the UK. With it being Poisson d'Avril today, we decided to make a constituency hex map of all the fish and chip shops in the UK using the same method.

Tom shared our first version with people on social media earlier and a Wrexhamite (Wrexonion?) replied in outrage and disbelief that we only had two fish and chip shops listed. So we double-checked the code and found they were correct; we were missing some features that had been created as ways. So, we re-ran all the code and got a new map.

A hex cartogram showing the distribution of fish and chip shops by constituency. The hotspots are: Blackpool South (75), Scarborough and Whitby (57) and Clacton (52)
Hex cartogram showing fish and chip shops by constituency.
Credit: Open Innovations / OpenStreetMap collaborators

The top 5 constituencies are:

  1. Blackpool South (75)
  2. Scarborough and Whitby (57)
  3. Clacton (52)
  4. Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley (46)
  5. Normanton and Hemsworth (43) and Herne Bay and Sandwich (43)