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Satellite village

type of village

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ2225945 ↗
Source-derived summary

A satellite village is a term for one or more settlements that have arisen within the outskirts of a larger one. Normally people would live in a satellite village, while they worked in the city.

See also

Satellite city

References

Lund Studies in Geography: Human Geography. 1989. Issues 53–56. Page 103. Google Books

Kanok Rerkasem. Assessment of Sustainable Highland Agricultural Systems. 1994. Pages 107 and 108.

Editorial summary

“Satellite village” enters the record as type of village. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Satellite, village and type can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Satellite, village and type.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Satellite village” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Satellite, village and type provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2225945. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 1994.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Satellite village”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Satellite village primary sources, Satellite village archive and Satellite research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Satellite village”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Satellite village” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.