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Letchworth
(redirected from Letchworth Garden City)

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Letchworth, town (1991 pop. 31,146), Hertfordshire, E central England. It was the first garden city garden city, an ideal, self-contained community of predetermined area and population surrounded by a greenbelt. As formulated by Sir Ebenezer Howard , the garden city was intended to bring together the economic and cultural advantages of both city and country living,
..... Click the link for more information. , founded in 1903 by Sir Ebenezer Howard Howard, Sir Ebenezer, 1850–1928, English town planner, principal founder of the English garden-city movement. His To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), reissued as Garden Cities of To-morrow
..... Click the link for more information. . Industries focus on printing and the manufacture of printing machinery.
Letchworth
a town in SE England, in N Hertfordshire: the first garden city in Great Britain (founded in 1903). Pop.: 32 932 (2001)


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Miller tells the complex story of the Letchworth Garden City Corporation Act of 1962, designed to ensure that dividends remained limited and that any further income was to be spent for the benefit of the inhabitants.
Letchworth: the First Garden City. (A Greenfield Site) by Ward, Colin / The Architectural Review
United Kingdom, Ireland Saros Technology The Spirella Building, Bridge Road, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 4ET, United Kingdom Phone: 44 (0)1462 476111 Fax: 44 (0)1462 476112 Email: sales@saros.
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