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Stewartby
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Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, originally built for the workers of the London Brick Company. The village was designed and built to the plans of the company's architect Mr F W Walker, laid out on 'Garden City' principle, a later and more modern development than such better-known Victorian model villages as Saltaire. Started in 1926, Stewartby is also a later model than Woodlands which was first planned in 1905. The later retirement bungalow development of the 1950s and 1960s with the pavilion community centre in their midst was designed by the neo-Georgi
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- Locality
- Stewartby
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,190
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Stewartby
- UK place.civil_parish
- Stewartby
- UK place.static_image_name
- Stewartby Village Centre - geograph.org.uk - 404268.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Stewartby
- UK place.population
- 1,212
- UK place.population_ref
- 1,190 (2011 Census)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Bedford
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Bedfordshire
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Mid Bedfordshire
- UK place.post_town
- Bedford
- UK place.postcode_district
- MK43
- UK place.postcode_area
- MK
- UK place.dial_code
- 01234
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL020423
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- Brickworks
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- See also
- References
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Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, originally built for the workers of the London Brick Company. The village was designed and built to the plans of the company's architect Mr F W Walker, laid out on 'Garden City' principle, a later and more modern development than such better-known Victorian model villages as Saltaire. Started in 1926, Stewartby is also a later model than Woodlands which was first planned in 1905. The later retirement bungalow development of the 1950s and 1960s with the pavilion community centre in their midst was designed by the neo-Georgian architect Professor Sir Albert Richardson. Today, Stewartby parish also includes Kempston Hardwick.
==Brickworks== Originally two Wootton farming settlements, Wootton Pillinge and neighbouring Wootton Broadmead, the Wootton Pillinge LBC village was in 1936 renamed Stewartby, taking its new name from the Stewart family, directors of London Brick Company since 1900. The family's son Sir Malcolm Stewart had amalgamated LBC with the Forders Company in the village in the 1920s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stewartby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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