Every month this year, if possible, I will attempt to bring to you a short, quite basic, dive into some data analysis on irrelevant topics that I would typically blog about. Today, I hope you enjoy this crescent analysis, though I reckon you won't.
Diamond Geezer has started blogging about squares, and included this titbit about Harrow in a recent post:
Harrow has just two squares, only one of which is publicly accessible.
By contrast Harrow has 201 Avenues, 123 Drives and 57 Crescents.
And I wondered how the rest of South London compares with similar figures. Coming from the prevalence of crescents in my day to day life, I was curious as to how South London is distributed by the number of crescents; using Find My Street, I compiled this graph:
Yes, it stunned me too. For some reason, the outermost ring of South London generally prefers crescents. My main theory is that these boroughs, mainly Croydon, Bromley and Bexley, which far outnumber the rest, weren't always in London, and are home to newer development areas which coincided with crescents being all the rage.
Either way, the top three boroughs are Croydon (74), Bromley (56), and Bexley (54). A lead of almost twenty is quite spectacular for Croydon, proving that Croydonians benefit from moon-shaped roads the most. Meanwhile, Merton and Wandsworth are bottom of the crescent rankings, with just twenty each.
To be specific, I didn't include footpaths in my data, because if I did then it would be thrown out of balance what with the sheer number that exist without a specific name. Yet if I included them, Croydon would have a hundred crescents, which is far too many.
There are many roads called "Crescent ...", but I only wanted roads where crescent was the suffix. I did include roads called "The Crescent", though, and it turns out that there are many of those in the UK. According to this website, The Crescent is the 14th most popular street name in the UK, and I don't know how they got to that conclusion without having tired and overworked interns shifting through various files, but I'll consider it fact unless proven otherwise.
There are a total of 431 crescents in South London using those rules, with an average of 36 crescents per borough. Yet only four (the aforementioned trio plus Greenwich, which has 39) are above average. Notably, this also means that the south-east outweighs the rest of the south when it comes to crescents.
Alright, this is getting ridiculous. Goodbye.
| Borough | No. |
| Bexley | 54 |
| Bromley | 56 |
| Croydon | 74 |
| Greenwich | 39 |
| Kingston | 31 |
| Lambeth | 25 |
| Lewisham | 29 |
| Merton | 20 |
| Richmond | 25 |
| Southwark | 27 |
| Sutton | 31 |
| Wandsworth | 20 |
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