Palmer’s Village in London began with the founding of almshouses and a school in 1656. The village grew up nearby. It was demolished around 1851 when Victoria Street was constructed.
In the Tywi Valley the castles at Dinefwr and Dryslwyn lost their military significance
in the fifteenth century. The castles and the small towns associated with them were
abandoned.
Hampton-on-Sea, near Herne Bay in Kent, was a fishing and smuggling community and
then a centre for oyster fishing, but it was lost to erosion before a housing estate
could be completed.