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 Argyll Street, Ullapool, Ross and Cromarty Planned villages were created in their hundreds during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Planned towns were far fewer. Ullapool – shown here in the early 20th century – is an example. Ullapool was established in 1788 by the British Fisheries Society. It had Government backing and was laid out on a grid plan devised by the engineer, Thomas Telford. Not all of those planned settlements which later developed into towns, were originally conceived as such. In truth they owed their success more to favourable circumstances: major industries such as cotton, Johnstone; fishing, Buckie; paper, Penicuik; tourism, Helensburgh and Callander; communications, Grangemouth, Moffat and Ardrossan or simply the backing of a wealthy landowner – including the State. Resource pack   1     2     3     4