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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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.
