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Things to Do in Letchworth Garden City, England: See Tripadvisor's 13,967 traveler reviews and photos of Letchworth Garden City tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in May. We have reviews of the best places to see in Letchworth Garden City.
Letchworth Garden City is the world’s first Garden City, created as a solution to the squalor and poverty of urban life in Britain in the late 19th Century.
Things to Do in Letchworth Garden City, England: See Tripadvisor's 13,967 traveller reviews and photos of Letchworth Garden City tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in May. We have reviews of the best places to see in Letchworth Garden City.
Letchworth, town (parish), North Hertfordshire district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, east-central England. It is located north of London, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Luton. Britain’s first planned “garden city,” much copied elsewhere, it was founded in 1903 by Sir.
More than one hundred years on, Letchworth is a thriving town of 5,300 acres complete with tree-lined suburbs, green spaces and a town centre with ample parking, shopping and restaurants. The retail park on the Baldock fringe of Letchworth's industrial area, however, has sucked much of the life out of the town centre.
As the world’s first Garden City, Letchworth Garden City offers something quite different, with its unique heritage and some interesting places to explore. Planned to combine the best of town and country living, there’s plenty to see and do, whether you’re here for the day or stopping longer.
Letchworth was the world's first Garden City, founded by Ebenezer Howard in 1903 based on the ideas he set out in his 1898 book, 'To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path To Real Reform'. Just five years after he published his vision for Garden Cities, the first foundations were being laid at Letchworth Garden City, in Hertfordshire, in October 1903.
