The document discusses the concept of 'corpse-paths' in relation to spatial humanities and folklore, particularly those that connect mountain hamlets to parish churches. It references the historical belief surrounding these paths as public rights of way for transporting corpses. The author, Stuart Dunn, links this to spatial data analysis as part of his work at King's College London.

1. Spatial data,
Spatial humanities
Stuart Dunn
Department of Digital Humanities
King’s College London
stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk
22nd March 2018

2. Measuring the world
Peter Heylyn, 1599 –
1662

3. https://stuartdunn.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/sourcing-gis-data

4. Corpse-paths
Now it is the time of night
When the graves all open wide
Every one lets for its sprite
In the church-way paths to glide
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Sc. 3

5. Corpse-paths

6. Wm. Self. Weeks. "Public Right of Way Believed
to Be Created by the Passage of a
Corpse." Folklore (1928): 393-398.
Corpse-paths

7. “Some of our mountain hamlets are far
from the parish church, which has
given rise to the “corpse road,” which
goes straight a lance to the village
centre … But the official who dared to
meddle with the corpse road, even
though it might not be sued once in
twenty years, was in for dire trouble”.
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8. Mardale - Schap

9. Mardale - Schap