Stage 1
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Geog Course Work Stage 1: Planning My Hypothesis is that the greater the population within the town boundary the greater number and variety of services. Also if there is more services offered people will travel further to avail of them. I wanted to prove that if there are a wide variety of services the sphere of influence will be greater and people would travel further to avail of these services. The sphere of influence is the area served by a particular settlement or a shop or service. Christallers theory states that larger settlements have a great sphere of influence In order to prove my hypothesis I will have to go out to my chosen settlements and record all the services offered. I will also have to design a questionnaire in which I can establish how far people are travelling to avail of the services offered in my chosen settlements. The settlements I am going to...


