Letchworth Garden City

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About Letchworth Garden City

Letchworth is a great place, beautiful old houses, and of course the first roundabout in Britain.

Letchworth Garden City, more commonly Letchworth, is a town in Hertfordshire, England. The town's name is taken from one of the three villages it surrounded. The land used was first purchased by Quakers who had intended to farm the area and build a Quaker community.
Founded and created in 1903 by Ebenezer Howard, it was one of the first new towns, and is the world's first Garden City. Its development inspired another Garden City project at Welwyn Garden City, and had great influence on future town planning and the New Towns
movement. Today it has a population of around 33,000.

Specialist Flickr groups related to this group and Hertfordshire :
Towns: Letchworth Garden City, Hatfield, Glorious Hatfield, Stevenage, Hitchin, Welwyn Garden City, Hertford Flickers, St. Albans Pubs, Bars and Clubs, Watford, Hemel Hempstead and beyond
Neighbours: Out Of Herts, Beds, Bucks and Herts, Bedfordshire
Three Villages that made up Letchworth Garden City:
Letchworth, Norton and Willian



versus the evil people who set up a quoted 'garden' group at

http://www.letchworth.com/