A linear settlement is a (normally small to medium-sized) settlement or group of buildings that is formed in a long line. 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.
10-552: Worston is a small linear village and civil parish in Lancashire , England. The village is north-west of Pendle Hill , east of Clitheroe , and is in the Ribble Valley district. As it is only a small village, with a population of 76 at the 2001 census , it has no parish council , but instead has a parish meeting . The parish meeting is shared with Mearley . From the 2011 Census population information for both Mearley and Worston
20-464: A pitched battle with them and drove them back home. From Clitheroe in the Seventeenth Century [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Media related to Worston at Wikimedia Commons This Lancashire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Linear village In the case of settlements built along a route, the route predated the settlement, and then
30-483: A simplistic understanding of the process of urban growth and ignoring the human factor in design , resulting in inefficiency and limited growth potential. Su%C5%82oszowa Sułoszowa [suwɔˈʂɔva] is a village in Kraków County , Lesser Poland Voivodeship , in southern Poland . It is the seat of an administrative district called Gmina Sułoszowa . It lies approximately 29 km (18 mi) north-west of
40-446: Is included within the civil parish of Pendleton . The village has a public house "The Calf's Head". The single road that passes through the village continues as a single track road to Downham . Worston is bypassed to the west by the A59 road , which passes through the edge of the parish. Slightly further north is the route of a Roman road , which forms part of the parish boundary. Worston
50-425: Is notable for its 9 km long, single main street and its thin strips of farm land, inhabited by 6000 people. Linear designs have also been proposed for new city and district development projects, such as Arturo Soria y Mata 's linear city , Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman 's linear city , Madrid 's Ciudad Lineal district, and Saudi Arabia 's The Line . Such designs have been criticized as expressing
60-464: The Worson bull-baitings. His father told him on one occasion, a big stalwart Pendle Forestman, whose nickname was "cheers" or "chairs" went up and catching hold of the ring, gave it a good shake, shouting "cheers to mend". Mr Hayes also told me that on one occasion, as a party of Pendle Forest men were coming into the rush bearing, they were met near the big end of Pendle by men of Worston and district, who had
70-490: 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. Particular types of linear settlements are linear village , chain village , street village ( Polish : ulicówka ; German : Straßendorf , Lithuanian : gatvinis kaimas , French : village-rue ), and some others. Different countries have varying classifications of linear settlements. Sułoszowa , Poland,
80-401: 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
90-566: Was on the Sunday after the 12th of August and it continued on the following Monday when the Bull-Baiting took place on Worston Green. After the bull-baiting eras were over, anyone wishing to fight used to go up to the bull ring and give it a good shake as a challenge to fight any man on the green. Mr Hayes said the Pendle Forest men were as a rule big fine men, and great numbers of them used to come to
100-603: Was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Clitheroe Rural District from 1894 till 1974. Along with Wiswell and Barrow (since 2015), both Mearley and Worston form the Wiswell and Pendleton ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council. The Bullring in Worston was the venue for some lively goings on. Mr William Hayes of Worston said that Worston Rushbearing
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