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Category Archives: Model villages

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Elsecar

Feb 6, 2022Daisy GraceCoal mining, Ironworks & foundries, Model villages, Settlements in Yorkshire

Former mining village in South Yorkshire, six miles north of Rotherham and six south of Barnsley.

Howe Bridge

Oct 10, 2020Daisy GraceModel villages, Settlements in Greater Manchester

Suburb of Atherton in Greater Manchester, built as a model mining village in the 1870s by the Fletchers.

New Bolsover

Dec 21, 2018Daisy GraceCoal mining, Model villages, Settlements in Derbyshire

Model village adjoining the town of Bolsover in Derbyshire, built by the local colliery company to house its workers.

Creswell Model Village

Dec 21, 2018Daisy GraceModel villages, Settlements in Derbyshire

Arts and crafts style model industrial settlement in Creswell in the parish of Elmton-with-Creswell in the Bolsover district in northeast Derbyshire.

Akroydon

Jul 28, 2018Daisy GraceModel villages, Settlements in Yorkshire

Model village developed near Edward Akroyd’s Bankfield mansion in Haley Hill, Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The houses are in blocks of six to ten around the park in streets named after cathedral cities.

Copley

Jul 26, 2018Daisy GraceModel villages, Settlements in Yorkshire

Model village built by Colonel Edward Akroyd in the Calder Valley to the south of Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Model village

Jul 26, 2018Daisy GraceModel villages

Type of mostly self-contained community, built from the late 18th century onwards by landowners and industrialists to house their workers.

Barrow Bridge

Jun 21, 2018Daisy GraceModel villages, Settlements in Greater Manchester

Model village started by John and Robert Lord, who built a cotton mill next to the Dean Brook in the north-west outskirts of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.

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