Meaning of New Town | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A planned community or urban development area.
2. A suburb of Ashford, Kent, England, south-east of the town centre (OS grid ref TR0141). Also spelt Newtown.
3. A town built to address housing shortages after World War II.
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4. A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see new, town.
6. A suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Examples

“The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns.”

“The autumn of the year 1850 also saw the establishment of the Carriage & Wagon Department at Ashford, by which time the adjacent railway village had been extended by another sixty houses. This village at first was known as Alfred Town but later became Ashford New Town.”

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