A tale of two Bostons

There are two places featured in this blogpost: both called Boston.

The first is Boston in Lincolnshire.
This small town is home to the Boston Stump.
I've been there about 4 times: twice when driving the school minibus to take teams to sports fixtures (though that was when I first started teaching and before I got a life...) and the other 2 were when the A47 was closed and I had to take a detour through the town.
Boston has a large percentage of residents who have moved into the town from other locations, and this has changed the character of the town.

This downloadable PDF from Refugee Support has a lot of fascinating detail on the influx, and would make an excellent resource for a group that was studying the impact of migration on a community.

The second Boston is in the United States of America.
This BOSTON GLOBE article describes a similar influx of migrants to this city, which has created a dramatic shift in the town's structure....

Good for population, cultural and urban geography investigations...

There are some amazing additional mapping resources that I discovered from this link:



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