Our Towns Y11B Land use surveys
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Holly • The houses are very spread out because this town has just entered suburbanisation from the rural areas. We are near London. Everything is leafy green near the outskirts, but when you venture towards the centre you can find everything getting more blocky and closer together. Just next to my house, there is the motor way and many farmlands. I have to walk a fair while before I reach any large CBD. There are no industrial elements in our town, just CBD’s. From my house, I walk forward, then turn left, then turn right and walk straight on until I can see the central take-away joints, all coupled together with a florist and pharmacy here and there. There is also the dentist. It is a fifteen minute journey, were as the one near the train station is a thirty minute journey. 2
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Jack’s Town • The commercial area of Yeovil is centred around the High Street which is pedestrianized. This High Street sweeps round in a circle with a shopping centre in the middle where shops open up with exits on both sides. • Leaving the town to the north is an industrial area incorporating a leather factory and a livestock trading market. • Further north is an area of old terraces which is the lower working class. To the west of the town are middle and upper class housing detached and semi style with gardens. 4
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Rebecca’s Town On the basis of my maps for Epsom:
The Central Business District in Epsom isn’t that big. The shops along the high street are three or four stories high and all next to each other. But a lot of the other shops scattered around the CBD are two stories and small. There is a six story shopping centre in the middle of the central business district, with lots of parking. All the main roads lead into/through Epsom town centre. Longmead industrial estate is located North on the outskirts of town, amongst the low class housing. It’s quite small, as Epsom isn’t a large industrial town. There are a few other low class housing estates to the West of the map. The low class housing are mostly council houses, so they are attached to other houses both sides. The rest of the low class housing are just blocks of flats. Epsom is quite a mixed area, there isn’t really a pattern to the housing classes. As you can see from the map, a lot of the high class housing is based behind and around Epsom Hospital. As well as a section of low class housing to the East. Apart from that, most of the other housing in Epsom is middle class. Which are a mix of big and small houses, with different sized gardens. A lot of them are semi-detatched. There are many other retail areas in Epsom, most of it along East Street. Off the map towards the North East is a little village called Ewell. That’s where I live. It has lots of retail shops and little boutiques.
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