Gillian Darley’s book, subtitled A Study Of Strange Utopias,
looks at planned villages and model villages in Britain and Ireland. That is, places like
Saltaire, New Lanark, Bournville and Port Sunlight where factory owners
designed and built attractive villages for their work force to live in.
Elsewhere there were other reasons why villages were planned: the Duke Of
Devonshire moved the village of Edensor so that it did not spoil his view from
Chatsworth House ! Gillian Darley’s book contains a gazetteer of over 400
villages so that the reader can discover these places themselves.
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