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

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adjacent to London, the map above displays the gradual expansion of the

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driven by the growth of the local population.

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had been enlarged since 1868, and it mainly expanded along transport systems, like main roads, motorways or railways. Before 1883, Chorleywood was merely a small

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adhering to a main road, along which the

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gradually extended towards the south.

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expansion almost tripled the size of the

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as a whole. In 1902, a railway crossing the

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was in operation, and the convenience brought by the railway motivated the

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to build up two separate new areas from west to east. In 1970, people there constructed a longitudinal motorway parallel to the main road. Owing to the new road, the

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was rapidly extended to five new areas from 1970 to 1994 and presented a complex layout along the transport system within the

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