Key learning points

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

Keywords

• 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 misconception