The Origins of the Street Grid

A hamlet is just a loose collection of dwellings in a particular place not necessarily even aligned in any particular way. A village is what the place grows into next which is an actual complete neighborhood standing free in the landscape. And then when it becomes a town that's when you're adding on other neighborhoods so it might be two through four neighborhoods like that. At that point sometimes you have diversification of purpose like maybe the original reason for being there on a on a riverside was a bountiful place to fish or whatever. But but and but at that point maybe it also becomes a market town in other words it becomes a place that people come in from other places. So it might gain a