Jay Appleton

Jay Appleton (1919 – 27 April 2015) was a British geographer who proposed "habitat theory" and advanced the notion of "prospect-refuge".

In 1940, he moved south to Diss, but ten years later a university appointment took him back to Yorkshire, and he lived in Cottingham until his death.

He was a Human Geographer with a special interest in transport and in 1962 he published "The Geography of Communications in Great Britain".

[3][4] During the early 1950s, he began writing Norfolk dialect stories and reading them from Birmingham on the Midland Region Programme of the BBC.

More stories were specially written to mark the opening of the BBC studios at St Catherine’s Close in Norwich in 1958.