Adjective modifier

• few: Few new towns were founded after that until populations began to rise once more in modern times.

Converse of object

• create: The Anglo-Saxons re-settled Gloucester and created a new town, using the Roman street pattern to create a new urban community.

• develop: From 1771, Arkwright developed a new town at Cromford in Derbyshire.

• name: A competition was run in the now defunct London Evening Standard to name the new town and the winner was Thamesmead.

Preposition: on

• outskirt: To try to remedy this, the GLC decided to build a new town on the outskirts of London.