Wright laid out roads across the area and sold off the land as building plots.
This layout was intended to produce as many building plots as possible.
On 10 August 1830, the purchase of a building plot for the new observatory was authorized.
But with the surge in home prices, the big side yard took on a new dimension as a potentially valuable building plot.
Is that house in the middle of the building plot?
The road was laid out with building plots by 1832.
Most of the building plots are still available due to a lack of demand.
The college was then demolished, and the estate was sold off as building plots.
The town was laid out in rectangular building plots, centred on the market square.
The search for a suitable building plot took several years.