Chorleywood is a village near London whose population has increased steadily since the middle of the 19th century. The map below shows the development of the village

The map depicts the growth of

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village

over a

century

. From the late 19th

century

to the early 20th

century

the growth is primarily focused on a

train

station

while

from

early

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the early

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20th

century

onwards the development is centered around newly built major

transport

links. Most of the

population

was around the

village

center

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in the eight

hundreds

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but with the completion of the

railway

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railway,

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it quickly shifted towards the

train

station

in the early 19th

century

. As displayed in the graph, the original settlement was relatively small in the

center

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of the

village

near the already existing main

road

.

However

, a heavily populated area showed up around the Chorleywood

Station

the

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time the

railway

was completed. In the middle of

19th

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century

population

continued to grow around the

train

station

but in the late 19th

century

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settlements

settlement

drastically appeared around the cross points of the newly built motorway and both the main

road

and the

railway

.

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mainly grew south along the

railway

in the middle 19th

century

, covering the crossing of the main

road

and the

railway

and a great part southeast of the

station

.

However

, with the completion of the motorway in 1970,

population

growth in the rest of the

century

shifted entirely away from the

railway

station

. In fact, large settlements began growing at the crossing of major

transport

links which

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the fastest

population

growths

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growth

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seen in the past 150 years. In a nutshell,

population

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the population

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in the

village

was originally clustered in the

center

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near the main

road

but with the completion of more

transport

routes settlements which grew dramatically chose to live next to the crossing of major

transport

links and the

train

station

.