I make that 933:1? Portsmouth (Navy/dockyard town) had 115:1 in the 1860s. (822 pubs and beerhouses against a population of 95k). There was a row of five pubs right outside the dockyard gate.
I see Leopoldsburg had a large military camp nearby. Same story?
Really surprising that Inverness and Skye have only 16 pubs considering how much tourism the area has. I felt like it wasn't lacking for pubs but maybe I saw all 16...
Ah, interesting. Searching the dataset for my local area, this seems to include some restaurants, but omits hotels entirely. That's skewing the numbers downward tremendously.
I thought about doing something similar pre-Covid. There are commercial datasets that are more complete (Local Data Company was the one I targeted when I was researching), but... well... £000's a quarter.
The project would have had to cover its costs, so the idea went to the great backlog in the sky.
I was in Inverness a few weeks ago, seems like the tourist season is on, and it was fairly hard to find a pub other than downtown. The other interesting thing is that a lot of them don't seem to not go by the advertised opening times, which later on made total sense based on what an old man told me about the Highlands having their own time.
I see Leopoldsburg had a large military camp nearby. Same story?
> Pub data is sourced from the Food Hygiene Rating Service (FHRS) via GetTheData Open Pubs
https://www.getthedata.com/open-pubs
So nice interface and all but some data curation will be needed - perhaps on a crowd sourced basis? Click and add comment &c.
The project would have had to cover its costs, so the idea went to the great backlog in the sky.