A market town has a regular public market.

A port is a place on a coast, river or lake where boats can stop to unload people or cargo.

The Industrial Revolution was a period of time where there was a large-scale change from making goods by hand to using machines.

Factories are large buildings where machines are used to manufacture goods.

Similarities and differences and the things that are the same or different when compared with another.

Our local town

Geography

Settlement features

Villages, towns and cities in the UK

Location and growth of settlements

Change in our local area

Designing a new settlement

This unit provides a foundation for Local area: How is it changing?', which involves a detailed case study of change in the school’s local area, and 'UK region: Why is the Lake District a National Park?', which investigates settlements, land use and change at a regional scale. 

This builds on 'Land use: how diverse are local and UK landscapes?', which focuses on land use locally and in the UK as a key aspect of human geography, extending and deepening pupils' understanding of human geography processes by investigating the characteristics of different types of settlement and the reasons why settlements are initially established and then change over time.

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.

Settlements: where do people live and why?

Up to the end of the 1700s, most people in the UK lived in the {{}}. 

In the 1700s people in the UK mainly lived in...

During the 1800s {{}} in the UK began to grow through trade or the goods they produced.

Following the Industrial Revolution, {{}} of the British population lived in towns and cities.

Which of these reveal clues about why towns have grown and developed?

a centre for buying and selling local goods

a coastal place where goods can be imported and exported

Match the key vocabulary with its definition.

is when something changes, usually an improvement

is to add text or notes that provide additional information 

is the identification of similarities or differences

Match the key words with their definitions.

Starter Quiz

Which city is in England?