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  2. Letchworth - Wikipedia

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    Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is noted for being the first garden city. The population at the time of the 2021 census was 33,990. Letchworth was an ancient parish, appearing in the Domesday Book of 1086. It remained a small rural village until ...

  3. Letchworth Town Hall - Wikipedia

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    Letchworth was developed in the early 20th century based on the ideas of the social reformer, Ebenezer Howard, and the master-planners, Richard Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, around a boulevard known as Broadway, which formed the diagonal southwest-northeast axis of the proposed garden city. [2]

  4. File:Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation Act 1995 ...

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    English: An Act to provide for the dissolution of Letchworth Garden City Corporation and the vesting of their undertaking in a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965; to repeal the Letchworth Garden City Corporation Act 1962; and for connected purposes.

  5. Howard Park and Gardens - Wikipedia

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    The park and gardens are named after Ebenezer Howard, who pioneered the idea of creating garden cities; they would benefit the whole community, they would be well planned and integrate the best aspects of town and country. The first garden city was Letchworth, on a site acquired in 1903.

  6. Letchworth Garden City F.C. - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 26 January 2006, at 00:01 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  7. Broadway, Letchworth - Wikipedia

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    Ebenezer Howard pioneered the idea of creating garden cities; they would benefit the whole community, they would be well planned and integrate the best aspects of town and country. The first garden city was Letchworth, on a site acquired in 1903. It was planned in 1904 by the architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. This included a broad ...

  8. Garden city movement - Wikipedia

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    The Garden City movement was very influential in France. The concept of garden city (cité jardin), was closely related to the concept of the 'workers city' (cité ouvrière). [29] All over the country settlements were established accordingly. Germany. Along with the UK, Germany was at the forefront of the Garden Cities movement, starting in ...

  9. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1995

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    An Act to provide for the dissolution of Letchworth Garden City Corporation and the vesting of their undertaking in a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965; [a] to repeal the Letchworth Garden City Corporation Act 1962; [b] and for connected purposes.