The catalyst for the urban growth of Skipton during the formative period of the
modern town between 1865 and 1914 was indigenous investment and
organisational change in cotton textiles in the aftermath of the Cotton Famine.
Railway investment also played an important, although lesser part. The
process was facilitated notably by the relaxation of policy on land tenure by the
principal landowner and by the work of a well managed local authority.
The resulting net in-migration, along with the internal redistribution of population
necessitated by the extension of commercial and other services in the town
centre, was accommodated by house building in clusters which were either
aligned with or removed from the main factory sites. This gave rise to a
distinctive pattern of social and spatial segregation, the distribution of which was
governed principally by the need for factories to have access to water supplies
for steam raising and condensing. Thus the canal corridor beyond the existing
built-up area was subject to textile colonisation while wholly residential
development was more closely associated with existing high status housing
elsewhere.
The study considers the processes involved in creating this pattern of
development with particular reference to the values and activities of the
principal decision-makers. It also discusses the resultant shift in power and
influence from the principal landowner to the local authority and to industrial and
commercial interests which increasingly were based outside the town. Arising
from this a model of urban growth is proposed and tested against neighbouring
small textile towns.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/5514 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Jackson, Kenneth Christopher |
| Contributors | Sheeran, George, Jennings, Paul |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, School of Lifelong Education and Development |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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