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.

• File:Selworthy, Somerset. Rebuilt as a model village, to provide housing for the aged and infirm of the Holnicote estate, in 1828 by Sir Thomas Acland
• 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.

Reconstructed & Museum Towns

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  Weald & Down Museum, West Sussex 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.