Plotlands (land development)

For the television series, see Plotlands.

Plotlands were areas of cheap British farmland, including along the coast and rivers, which, between the 1890s and 1939, were divided and sold for holiday homes or as smallholdings.[1] Described as "a makeshift world of shacks and shanties, scattered unevenly in plots of varying size and shape, with unmade roads and little in the way of services"[2] plotland developments gave the economically disadvantaged the opportunity to "take their own place in the sun".[3] Inhabitants were known as "plotlanders".[4]

  1. ^ Cowan, Robert (2005). The Dictionary of Urbanism. London, UK: Streetwise Press. p. 298. ISBN 0954433009.
  2. ^ Hardy, Dennis (2004). Arcadia for All: the legacy of a makeshift landscape. Nottingham, UK: Five Leaves. p. ix. ISBN 9780907123590.
  3. ^ Wild, M T (2004). Village England: a social history of the countryside. London, UK: I B Tauris. p. 139. ISBN 1860649394.
  4. ^ Hardy, Dennis (2004). Arcadia for All: the legacy of a makeshift landscape. Nottingham, UK: Five Leaves. p. vii. ISBN 9780907123590.