ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Proximity to Oxford related to numbers of objects

County

Number of objects

% of total number of objects from England in PRM

[39,978]

Proximity

*

Bedfordshire

1,749

4.3

3

Berkshire

77

0.1

2

Birmingham

28

0

3

Bristol

22

0

3

Buckinghamshire

1,183

2.9

2

Cambridgeshire

247

0.6

3

Cheshire

24

0

4

Cleveland

1

0

5

Cornwall

62

0.1

5

Cumbria

21

0

5

Derbyshire

20

0

4

Devon

552

1.3

4

Dorset

514

1.2

4

Durham

2

0

5

Essex

1,007

2.5

4

Gloucestershire

219

0.5

2

Greater Manchester

36

0

4

Hampshire and Isle of Wight

1,204

3

3

Herefordshire

13

0

3

Hertfordshire

48

0.1

3

Kent

1,899

4.7

4

Lancashire

54

0.1

5

Leicestershire

7

0

3

Lincolnshire

64

0.1

4

London [Greater]

3,385

8.4

3

Merseyside

19

0

4

Norfolk

812

2

4

Northamptonshire

217

0.5

2

Northumberland

85

0.2

5

Nottinghamshire

15

0

4

Oxfordshire

5,841

14.6

1

Rutland

1

0

3

Shropshire

18

0

4

Somerset

879

2.1

3

Staffordshire

18

0

4

Suffolk

3,114

7.7

4

Surrey

1,471

3.6

3

Sussex

4,039

10.1

4

Tyne and Wear

6

0

5

Warwickshire

8

0

2

West Midlands

0

0

3

Wiltshire

1,983

4.9

3

Worcestershire

302

0.7

3

Yorkshire

791

1.9

4

Key

* Note proximity is marked by

1 = Oxfordshire

2 = Counties which border Oxfordshire

3 = County towns' distance from Oxfordshire by miles up to 100 [worked out using http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp so quickest distance by road]

4 = County towns' distance from Oxfordshire by miles up to 200 [worked out using http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp so quickest distance by road]

5 = County towns' distance from Oxfordshire by miles up to 500 [worked out using http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp so quickest distance by road]