Barrow is one of Britain's few planned towns and has many fine buildings to show for it.

Bethany Beach soon encountered financial problems which threatened to bring the planned town to an end almost before it could begin.

This was the first planned town in the region, with a superb water distribution system.

At the same time the village was expanded into a planned town, complete with an unofficial market.

The impulse to produce planned towns, such as it was, had died out by 1300.

But to say that the planned town required a single ownership of the site does not go to the root of the matter.

A planned town (bastide) was laid out at the same time as the castle.

They are also investigating the 12th-century planned town at the foot of the castle hill.

The city was rebuilt as a planned Roman town and recovered after perhaps ten years.

Little of the planned town was ever developed.