ABSTRACT
The substitution of relatively intensive labour systems of agriculture for the existing extensive types would be prohibitively expensive were the peasantry to continue living in the agrotowns, far from their lands. The movement to consolidate holdings, whereby innumerable fragments of land are amalgamated into holdings comprising one block or but few, opens the way to much agricultural improvement. An interesting practical application of location principles is found in the taxation of agricultural land. Under conditions in which the population is increasing, such satellite settlements which are occupied seasonally may come to be permanently inhabited and to possess a complete economy of their own, independent of the village from which they sprang. A point of considerable interest is the spacing of villages in the English Midlands, where dispersed farmsteads were not generally a part of the early settlement pattern, though they have subsequently appeared on the scene.
