1. This means excluding Christchurch from the discussion as this was an Anglo-Saxon burh of preNorman origin - see D. A. Hinton, The towns of Hampshire, in J. Haslam (ed.) Anglo-Saxon Towns in Southern England. Chichester: Phillimore, 1984, pp. 149-65.
2. G. Lesser, Gothic Cathedrals and Sacred Geometry. London: Alec Tiranti, 1957; F. Bucher, Medieval architectural design methods, 800-1560. Gesta 11 (1972) 37-52; N. Hiscock, The Wise Master Builder. Platonic geometry in plans of medieval abbeys and cathedrals. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.
3. On the early development of a medieval 'new town' see E. M. Cams Wilson, The first half century of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, in R. Holt and G. Rosser (eds) The Medieval Town. London: Longman, 1990, pp. 49-70.
4. R. Bearman, Charters of the de Redvers Family, op. cit. [31], p. 171; K. D. Lilley, ibid., pp. 31-8. The measurements of plot-widths along Lymington High Street were made by Ms E. C. Foster under the supervision of Dr T. R. Slater: See E. C. Foster, Medieval New Towns in Hampshire. Dissertation, University of Birmingham: School of Geography, 1988.
5. D. Friedman, The Florentine New Towns. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1988.