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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.
Nov 1, 2018 · In his 1898 book, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (reprinted in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow), Howard laid out his solution: the garden city. Just five years after the book’s release, the first of these communities was founded: Letchworth Garden City, in Hertfordshire County, north of London.
Based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard as published in his book of 1898 Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Reform, Letchworth Garden City inspired town planning across the globe. First Garden City Ltd began construction in 1903.
Letchworth was the world's first Garden City, founded by Ebenezer Howard in 1903 based on the ideas he outlined in his 1898 book To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path To Real Reform. Nearly five years after he published his vision of Garden Cities, the first foundations were laid in October 1903 at Letchworth Garden City, in Hertfordshire.
The site of the UK’s very first traffic roundabout, Letchworth Garden City has been the home of the rare black squirrel since 1912. The visionary behind Letchworth Garden City was social reformer Ebenezer Howard and what he created here became a model for town planning across the globe.
Just five years after he published his vision for Garden Cities, the first foundations were being laid at Letchworth Garden City in October 1903. Howard had set up the Garden City Association (now the Town & Country Planning Association, or TCPA ) in 1899 to gain support for the idea.
Letchworth Garden City is the largest and most recent of the four towns of North Hertfordshire, having been founded in 1903 as the world’s first Garden City. It absorbed the historic villages of Letchworth, Norton and Willian.
