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Designs and designers of medieval ‘new towns’ in Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Keith D. Lilley ,
Christopher D. Lloyd  and
Steven Trick
Keith D. Lilley
Affiliation:
School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK (Email: [email protected])
Christopher D. Lloyd
Affiliation:
School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK (Email: [email protected])
Steven Trick
Affiliation:
School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK (Email: [email protected])
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Medieval ‘new towns’ seem to echo Roman towns in having a grid of streets associated with a fortress, and have often been credited with a standard plan applied by the hand of authority. Here the authors analyse the new towns founded by Edward I in Wales and find some highly significant variations. Rediscovering the original layouts by high precision survey and GIS mapping, they show that some towns, founded at the same time and on similar topography, had quite different layouts, while others, founded at long intervals, had plans that were almost identical. Documentation hints at the explanation: it was the architects, masons and ditch-diggers, not the king and aristocracy, who established and developed these blueprints of urban life.

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WalesEnglandmedievalurbanismEdward IplanningGIS
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 312 , 1 June 2007 , pp. 279 - 293
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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