Towns Act

Some articles on towns, town:

Planned Developments - Europe - United Kingdom - England (and Scotland)
... The Romans planned many towns in Britain, but the settlements were changed out of all recognition in subsequent centuries ... The town of Winchelsea is said to be the first post-Roman new town in Britain, constructed to a grid system under the instructions of King Edward I in 1280, and largely completed ... The best known pre-20th-century new town in the UK was undoubtedly the Edinburgh New Town, built in accordance with a 1766 master plan by James Craig, and (along with Bath and Dublin) the archetype of the ...
Planned Community - Europe - United Kingdom - England (and Scotland)
... The Romans planned many towns in Britain, but the settlements were changed out of all recognition in subsequent centuries ... The town of Winchelsea is said to be the first post-Roman new town in Britain, constructed to a grid system under the instructions of King Edward I in 1280, and largely completed by 1292 ... The best known pre-20th century new town in the UK was undoubtedly the Edinburgh New Town, built in accordance with a 1766 master plan by James Craig, and (along ...

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