Some communities along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, developed as linear settlements, as is still clearly seen in Champlain
A linear settlement is a (normally small to medium-sized) settlement or group of buildings that is formed in a long line.[1] Many of these settlements are formed along a transport route, such as a road, river, or canal. Others form due to physical restrictions, such as coastlines, mountains, hills or valleys. Linear settlements may have no obvious centre.[2]
In the case of settlements built along a route, the route predated the settlement, and then the settlement grew along the transport route. Often, it is only a single street with houses on either side of the road. Mileham, Norfolk, England is an example of this pattern. Later development may add side turnings and districts away from the original main street. Places such as Southport, England developed in this way.
A linear settlement is in contrast with ribbon development, which is the outward spread of an existing town along a main street, and with a nucleated settlement, which is a group of buildings clustered around a central point.
A sketch of a street village
Particular types of linear settlements are linear village, chain village,[citation needed]street village (Polish: ulicówka;[3] German: Straßendorf,[3] Lithuanian: gatvinis kaimas, French: village-rue), and some others. Different countries have various classifications of linear settlements.
Sułoszowa, Poland, is notable for its 9 km long, single main street and its thin strips of farm land, inhabited by 6000 people.
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particular form of linearsettlement in German-speaking countries that is characterized by rows of houses situated along a linear object such as a riverbank...
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town of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Nantwich. Betley forms a continual linearsettlement with Wrinehill. Betley School Betley lies on the A531 from Madeley...
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the routes of communications radiating from a human settlement. The resulting linearsettlements are clearly visible on land use maps and aerial photographs...
detached and moved to other such cities. The Line, a 170-kilometer-long linearsettlement in Saudi Arabia, a smart city currently in the early stages of construction...
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The TRAPPIST-1 system may contain several such planets. Linearsettlement, a type of settlement that could be set up on such planets Starr, Michelle (5...
was recorded in the Domesday Book as Mortestorne. Mosterton is a linearsettlement, grown along the A3066 road. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) from Crewkerne...
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