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Letchworth, also known as Letchworth Garden City, in Hertfordshire now has a population of 33,000.

Founded and created in 1903 by Ebenezer Howard, a quaker, it was one of the first new towns, and is the world's first Garden City. In 1898, the social reformer Ebenezer Howard wrote a book in which he put forward the construction of a new kind of town having these features:

• combine the advantages of cities and the countryside while eliminating their disadvantages
• a new idea to keep industry separate from residential areas
• trees and open spaces would plentiful
• land should be held communally for the good of all

When built, First Garden City Ltd owned the entire estate, but leased plots to citizens for building houses, farming etc. The rents were intended to provide income for the company to be re-invested in the community. All citizens were shareholders to eveyone's benefit. Developments which the citizens disliked could be stopped. After a while, this arrangementwent wrong and the system for Letchworth government changed.

The Garden City estate began to turn a profit in the 1970s, leading to investment in a number of town amenities:

• a working farm, Standalone Farm, in 1980
• a leisure centre and a theatre named Plinston Hall in 1982
• a free hospital (the Ernest Gardiner Day Hospital) in 1984
• major refurbishment of the town's cinema and shopping centre in 1996 and 1997
• a 20km landscaped path for walkers and cyclists, known as the Greenway

The town had the UK's first roundabout on a public road, dating from circa 1909.

Letchworth is twinned with: Wissen, Germany; Chagny, France; Kristiansand, Norway.

State schools: Highfield, Fearnhill
Private schools: St. Christopher School, St Francis's College

Nearby villages: Clothall, Weston, Stotfold, Gravely, Walkern, Shillington, Preston. Lilley

Nearby towns: Baldock, Hitchin, Stevenage, Luton, Royston, Buntingford.

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