The maps below show the village of Stokeford in 1930 and in 2010.

Illustrated in the maps is the change that took place in the layout of the village of Stokeford between 1930 and 2010. Distinctly,

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the village is still identifiable, the process of urbanisation indeed exerted a great influence on its detailed look. In 1930, we can see that an

s-shaped

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river crossed the area from northeast to southwest. Next to it, a

road

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first crossed the river via a bridge in the north

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and

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kept paralleled with it till the southern end of the map. On the south of the bridge and along the

road

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were several

houses

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, among which 2 shops and a post office reside on the left and a school across. Both to the east and south of these buildings was farmland, and to the south of the

school

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school,

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we

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also

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find a garden which contained trees and a bunch of large

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and was connected to the main

road

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with a path. 80 years later,

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,

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the primary school was expanded, the farmland and shops completely disappeared to make way for 4 new branches of

road

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, of which one was circular and 3 were straight, with some

houses

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newly built along them and the main

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, the area of

garden

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the garden

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reduced

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and the original

houses

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in the garden

had been

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were

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transformed into

a

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retirement

home

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