Hudson's village model

Hudson's village model is a geographical model of United Kingdom villages which shows the development of rural settlement patterns in villages over time. It was developed around the Lincoln, Lincolnshire area by Hudson. R (1977) an English born geographer specialising in Urban geography, who currently lectures at the University of Durham.

The model identifies three stages:

The first stage consists of the initial village buildings that are the 'core' of the village. These tend to be located around the church. In the second stage, there is an infill of houses as the demand for them increases. This is linked with increases in population in the UK and improvements in healthcare and quality of life. Stage three occurs mainly to coincide with the popularity of Counter Urbanisation where dense housing estates are built to cater for people wanting to live in areas of high quality of environment, such as that found in many rural villages.

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