The map below shows the development of the village of Chorleywood between 1868 and 1994. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The map illustrates how the village of Chorleywood, situated near London, expanded in four stages between 1868 and 1994.

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, the settlement grew from a small cluster of houses into a sizeable suburb, and each phase of development followed a new transport link.

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the built-up area spread considerably, the park at the heart of the community was preserved throughout. The first stage reveals that, between 1868 and 1883, Chorleywood consisted of little more than a strip of buildings along the main road running from west to east, with the green space lying immediately to the north.

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, in 1909, a railway line and a station were constructed to the south of

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original core, and

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, the next wave of housing, completed by 1922, appeared around the station and along the route leading to it. The subsequent period, from 1922 to 1970, saw the most significant expansion. Because the area had become an easy commute to the capital, new homes were added on every side of the park, so that the earlier settlement was almost surrounded.

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, a motorway was constructed across the eastern edge in 1970,

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the final phase of growth, which lasted until 1994, filled the land separating the railway from

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motorway. If

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pattern had continued, the suburb would eventually have merged with its neighbours.