Historic Towns & Villages

Historic Towns & Villages

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  Saltaire Victorian utopian workers village built by entrepreneur Sir Titus Salt in the 1850s http://www.saltairevillage.info/

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  Bournville Model Workers Village, Birmingham - built by George and John Cadbury in the late 1870s to house and improve the lives of workers at their chocolate factory.

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  Port Sunlight on the Wirral, Merseyside. Built from 1888 by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory (now part of Unilever)

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  Bata Houses on the Bata Estate, East Tilsbury build by Czech shoe entrepreneur Tomáš Bata in the 1930s.

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  Silver End, Braintree, Essex. Built for their workers by the Crittall Windows company.

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  Trowse, Norfolk. An existing village was expanded by the Colman family during the 1800s for workers at Colman's mustard factory.

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  Selworthy, Somerset. A remote rural landscape of thatched cottages, nestled in the vale of the Holnicote Estate. Rebuilt in 1828 as a model village, to provide housing for retired estate workers.

• File:Barrow Bridge, Bolton. Built in the 1830s by Thomas Bazley and Robert Gardner built a model village for mill workers
• File:Snelston, Derbyshire. Built In the 1840s by the Stanton family for estate workers
• File:Swindon Railway Village, Wiltshire. Built In the 1840s by the Great Western Railway for its staff
• File:Withnell Fold, Lancashire. Built in 1844 by Thomas Blinkhorn Parke a cotton mill owner for his staff
• File:Meltham, Yorkshire. Built In 1850 by local landowners for workers
• File:’Price's Village’, Bromborough Pool was developed in 1853 by the Price Candle Company for the workers at the nearby candle factory.
• File:Akroydon, Yorkshire (1859)Built by Colonel Edward Akroyd for his mill workers
• File:Nenthead, Cumberland. Built in 1861 by the Quaker owned London Lead Cmpany for lead mine workers
• File:New Sharlston Colliery Village, Yorkshire (1864)
• File:150 buildings to house Sharlston Colliery Company workers
• File:​Ripley Ville, Yorkshire (1866)
• File:Sir Henry William Ripley built this for local workforce - residency was not limited to his employees
• File:Copley, Yorkshire (1874)
• File:Built by Colonel Edward Akroyd for local mill workers
• File:Howe Bridge, Lancashire (1873–79)
• File:Built by the owners of Atherton Collieries for pit workers
• File:Creswell Model Village, Derbyshire (1895)
• File:Built by the Bolsover Colliery Company for the workers of Creswell Colliery
• File:New Bolsover model village, Derbyshire (1896)
• File:Built by the Bolsover Mining Company for workers at Bolsover Colliery.
• File:Vickerstown, Lancashire (1901)
• File:Built by Vickers for workers at Barrow’s shipyard
• File:New Earswick, Yorkshire (1904)
• File:Built by Joseph Rowntree for workers
• File:Woodlands, Yorkshire (1905)
• File:Built by the architect Percy Houfton as tied cottages for the miners of the neighbouring Brodsworth Colliery
• File:Whiteley Village, Surrey (1907)
• File:Built by Whiteley Homes Trust, a charity providing almshouses for older people of limited financial means.
• File:The Garden Village, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire (1908)mainly funded by Sir James Reckitt, and with two-thirds of the housing reserved for his workers
• File:Stewartby, Bedfordshire (1926)
• File:Built by the London brick company for their workers
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  Tyneham, a ghost village near Lulworth Coven in Dorset. The Whole village was requisitioned in 1943 for use as an army firing range but is open for visitors.

Open Air Museums & 'Reconstructed' Towns

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  Weald & Downland Museum, West Sussex has rescued and restored representative examples of vernacular buildings from the South East of England http://www.wealddown.co.uk/

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  Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. A collection of restored, historic buildings from the industrial past of the West Midlands.

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  Little Woodham Living History Museum near Gosport, Hampshire a recreated 17th century village.

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  Beamish Museum, a living, working museum that tells the story of everyday life in the North East of England http://www.beamish.org.uk/

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  The Black Country Living Museum, Dudley tells the story of one of the very first industrialised landscapes in Britain.

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  Chiltern Open Air Museum was founded in 1976 with the aim of rescuing threatened buildings from the local area. It now houses more than thirty historic buildings of all ages spanning 2000 years of Chilterns history. https://www.coam.org.uk/

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  Morewell Quay, Devon. Once a thriving port and copper ore mine, now a living museum with the village buildings restored to tell a unique story of Devon industry. https://www.morwellham-quay.co.uk/

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  Blist Hill, Ironbridge. A recreated Victorian Town, containing houses, shops and workshops, that is part of the wider Ironbridge Gorge Museums network.