Settlements
Village, Market Town or Port: Reading a Settlement’s Shape
Read a village, market town or port through its routes, centre and waterfront, and separate visible settlement…
subjects
Settlements
Explore how villages and towns take form, and what their patterns reveal.
Our point of view
A map is a beginning, not the whole story
We look beyond lines and labels to notice how land and human choices give places their character. Every explanation aims to distinguish what a map shows from what it cannot tell us.