Scottish Planned Villages
Details:
- Author(s) Lockhart, Douglas G (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2012
- Pages 276pp; illus
- Publisher Scottish History Society
- Place Published Edinburgh
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
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Library:
- Name National Library of Scotland
- City Edinburgh
- County Lothian
- Country Scotland
- Postcode EH1 1EW
- Visit National Library of Scotland's website
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Notes:
Provides transcriptions / reproductions of documents created in the development of Scottish planned villages in the18th and 19th centuries - plans, regulations, rentals, reports and memoranda, correspondence. Scotland had almost 500 such planned villages. Chapters include: 'Early planned villages in the North East and the Highlands'; 'Agricultural improvement, textile manufacturing and fishing'; 'The planning process, surveying the site, advertisements, village regulations and recruiting settlers'; 'Agriculture, lotted lands and peat mosses'; 'Fishing and harbour development'; 'Suburban communities'; 'The final years of planning '. An appendix lists planned villages