Settlements

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Settlements

• Human/Urban Geography

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What are they?

• Settlements are purposely grouped and organized
  clusters of houses and buildings.

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Historical Approach

• England has a complex cultural geography
• 5000 years ago, the earliest settlers left their
  marks with monuments such as Stonehenge

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• Later the Celts occupied England
  (ancestors of the Scots, Welsh and Irish)
• Romans then came and built fortified towns

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Main gate into York
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Roman Bath and Abbey
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Hadrians Wall

• Later Angles and Saxons came and drove the Celtic
  peoples to northern Britain.

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• Vikings raided the coastal areas and also built
  settlements

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• In 1066 William of Normandy conquered England.
  William brought in many French lords and gave
  them a lot of land for settlement. This led to
  future contention between England and France
  which remains today.

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• Henry VIII came along and destroyed the Roman
  cathedrals
• This is part of a destroyed cathedral in York
  (the dissolution of the monasteries)

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• Each of these peoples left an imprint on England
  and its landscape.
• This process is called sequent occupance ? a
  process of settlement by successive groups of
  people in which each group creates a distinctive
  cultural landscape

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Local Settlements

• What are some examples of sequent occupance in
  the Waterloo region?

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Paragraph Assignment
Consider that Sequent Occupance is reflected by
layers of imprints in a cultural landscape that
reflect years of differing human
activity. Choose any city in the world and write
a ½ pg paragraph (approximately 200-300 words)
describing the changes in physical and human
landscape over the many years of
occupancy. Think of the different groups that
occupied the area, how they used the
land/resources, how they changed or added to the
landscape (physical and human) Due Tomorrow