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Definition of New town
1. Noun. A planned urban community created in a rural or undeveloped area and designed to be self-sufficient with its own housing and education and commerce and recreation.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of New town
1. Noun. (British) A town built to address housing shortages post World War II. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of New Town
Literary usage of New town
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Town of Newark, New Jersey: From Its Settlement in 1666, to by Newark (N.J.) (1864)
"... the Trustees of the new Town Dock take such Legal measures to secure the rights
of the Town in said Dock as they in their wisdom may deem necessary. ..."
2. New England Town Law: A Digest of Statutes and Decisions Concerning Towns by James Smith Garland (1906)
"When a new town, composed in part of one or more existing towns, is incorporated,
persons settled in such existing town or towns, or who have begun to ..."
3. The New England Gazetteer: Containing Descriptions of the States, Counties by John Hayward (1857)
"... promise to any new town. ALTON, N. II., BELKNAP Co., lies 22 miles NE from
Concord, and 25 NW from bover. Cars run from this place to Dover, Boston, ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1887)
"... the incorporation of n new town, which was culled Norton, and fourteen years
after the new town was divided. The author gives u very valuable account of ..."
5. The New-Hampshire Town Officer by William Merchant Richardson (1829)
"And when any new town or district shall be incorporated, composed of one or more
old incorporated towns or districts, all persons settled in the town or ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"464- E lace, incorporation ipso facto gives every one inhabited there a :gal
settlement.8 Where part of a town is set off and incorporated into a new town, ..."
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