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Unit Summary

This unit explores different types of settlements, from villages to cities. Pupils learn about settlement features, growth and location, and use their local area to understand how places change. They apply what they've learned by designing a new settlement.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to use Ordnance Survey maps to identify some reasons your local town grew and compare it to another town you know.

Key Notes

• Some early settlements grew from villages into towns and cities, through trade or because of the goods they produced.
• During the industrial revolution, some towns and villages grew into cities because factories developed.
• OS maps and aerial photographs reveal clues about why towns have grown and developed.
• Geographers compare places by analysing their similarities and differences

Vocabulary To Learn

• market town: A market town has a regular public market.
• port: A port is a place on a coast, river or lake where boats can stop to unload people or cargo.
• Industrial Revolution: The Industrial Revolution was a period of time where there was a large-scale change from making goods by hand to using machines.
• factories: Factories are large buildings where machines are used to manufacture goods.
• similarities and differences: Similarities and differences and the things that are the same or different when compared with another.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• All settlements grew in the industrial revolution because factories were built to provide jobs.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

• Change in our local area Study Guide
• Designing a new settlement Study Guide
• Location and growth of settlements Study Guide
• Settlement features Study Guide
• Villages, towns and cities in the UK Study Guide