| Page Views: 90 Last Visit to Welwyn Garden City: July, 2009 I Visit Here Frequently | An early garden city by colin_bramso - last update: Jul 29, 2009 |
A new idea in urban planning
My family lives in and around WGC so we visit quite often but I haven't taken photographs before this last trip. Even so I didn't take many - I'll try to do better on future trips so that I can build the page properly.
WGC was built in the 1920s on empty land as one of the first of the garden cities, experimental new towns planned to be built in agricultural areas and limited in size. A revolutionary idea at the time, they would combine urban and rural living.
The original central area is beautiful but it's sadly now surrounded by a sprawl of industrial areas and cheap, ugly low-cost housing estates. |
| An original town centre house |
|  | From the railway station in the centre of the town it's an easy half hour trip into central London.
The station has been developed to include a large shopping mall and the town centre itself has a variety of shops, including a John Lewis department store, and cafes. |
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