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A settlement is a general term used in archeology, landscape history and other subjects for a permanent or temporary community in which people live which avoids being specific as to size, population or importance. A settlement can therefore range in size from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. The term may include hamlets, villages, towns and cities.[1] The National Curriculum for England uses the term and expects 12 year old children to understand and define it.[2]
The medieval settlement research group (a British organisation) includes as part of a settlement, associated features such as roads, enclosures, field systems, boundary banks and ditches, ponds, parks and woods, mills, manor houses, moats and churches.[3]
Settlements can be ordered by size (or some other factor such as availability of services) to define a settlement hierarchy.[1]
Landscape history studies the form (morphology) of settlements – for example whether they are dispersed or nucleated.
Notes
- ^ a b http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/urbanrural/settlementtypesrev_print.shtml
- ^ http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/secondary_geography/geo03/03q3?view=get
- ^ MSRG
See also
- Category:Settlements
- Colonization
- Developed Environments
- Israeli settlement
- Resettlement
- Transmigration program
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