Settlements Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Pre-Improvement Villages Planned villages and towns Industrial New settlement Midlem, Bowden, Roxburghshire Nucleated (i.e. clustered) villages were absent from most of Scotland until the 18th century, when many were planned and built. The main exception to this rule was the south east. In the south east there had been villages for many centuries. Midlem is one of them. It consists of houses and their outbuildings set irregularly around a communual open space or village green. Similar villages occur across the English border, in Northumberland. It has been suggested that their occurrence in Scotland may be the result of Anglian settlement. Resource pack   1     2     3     4