This resource shows how you can successfully pull together a range of topics based around settlements. The topics which can be covered by a day in several local settlements include:

• mapwork, including annotating maps of the area before and during the fieldwork
• quarry visit to a limestone quarry
• limestone landscapes
• tourism, including facilities offered to visitors.
• settlements study   
• shopping / economic activity study
• new developments and urban sprawl
• rurality

This resource was written by the RGS-IBG Education Department and reviewed by Rachel Atkins (Bristol Grammar School) and Dr John Gerrard (University of Birmingham). Additional material was kindly provided by Rick Cope (Backwell School)