Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden Stead
Welwyn Garden Stead (/ˈwɛlɪn/ WEL-in) (Norman English: Welwyn Garden City) is a town in Hertfordshire, England. It stands roughly 20 miles (32 km) from Kings Cross, London. Welwyn Garden Stead was the twoth garden stead in England (begotten in 1920) and one of the first new towns (marked in 1948).

It is one of a kind in being both a garden stead and a new town and shows by deed the bodily, theedly and couthly layout beliefs of the elds in which it was built.

Yorelore
Welwyn Garden stead was begotten by Hare Ebenezer Howard in 1920 following his last fanding in Letchworth Garden Stead. Howard had called for the shaping of laid-out towns that were to bind the fremes of the town and the fieldswathe and to shun the drawbacks of both. The Garden Steads and Town Layout Fellowship (Norman English: Garden Cities and Town Planning Association) had marked a garden stead as

"a town forethought for healthy living and bulkbuilding of a size that makes easy a full deal of thedely life but not larger, inringed by a fieldswathely belt; the whole of the land being in meanly ownership, or held in fastkeeping for the meanship"

In 1919, Howard settled the buying of land in Hertfordshire that had already been seen as a fitting site. On 29 Eastermonth 1920 a business, Welwyn Garden City Limited, was shaped to forethink and build the garden stead, headed by Hare Theodore Chambers. Louis de Soissons was marked as buiding-forethinker and town forethinker, C.B Purdom as geld headsteerer and Frederic Osborn as inwriter. The first house became lived in just before Yule 1920.

The town is laid out along tree-lined roads with a new-Georgian town kernel. It has its own lifewordly shield laws, the Handling Outline for Welwyn Garden Stead (Norman English: Scheme of Management for Welwyn Garden City). Every road has a wide grass edge. The spine of the town is Parkway, a kernel of shops or bildly greenswathe, almost a mile long. The sight along Parkway to the south was once betold as one of the world's best townly outlooks. Older houses are on the west side of Parkway and newer houses on the east side.

The firstmost forethinkers willed that all the dwellers of the garden city would shop in one shop and begot the Welwyn Stores, a one-grip which begot some neighbourly bitterness. Businessly thringmights have since led to much more cheapbedes and buykinds, and the Welwyn Stores were in 1984 taken over by the John Lewis Mateship (Norman English: John Lewis Partnership).

In 1948, Welwyn Garden Stead was marked a new town under the New Towns Lawdeed 1946 (Norman English: New Towns Act 1946) and the Welwyn Garden Stead business handed its belongings to the Welwyn Garden Stead Fostering Bodyship (Norman English: Welwyn Garden City Development Corporation). Louis de Soissons stayed as its forethinking knowman. That year The Times likened Welwyn Garden Stead with Hatfield. It betold Welwyn Garden stead as a world-nameknown nowtide new town fostered as a fanding in meanship shaping and Hatfield as an unshaped thorpe begotten by scattered building in the open fieldswathes. "Welwyn, though far from flawless, made the New Towns Lawdeed doable, whereas as Hatfield, by its flaws, made it needful." In 1966, the Fostering Bodyship was wound up and handed over to the Reevebody for New Towns (Norman English: Commission for New Towns). The housing stock, neighbourhood shopping and greenswathes were passed to the Welwyn Hatfield Boroughmoot between 1978 and 1983.

A shophall, the Howard Building, was built in the 1980s, inholding the firstmost tugstead.

There is a new growth of indrawness in the lifesight of the garden town and the kind of neighbourhood and mean put forward by Howard, led by the worries of townly and fieldswathely growth and the heft of upholdness in lawmoot deeddraft.

Roman baths are forlasted in a steel whalf underneath roadmeeting 6 of the A1(M) and are open to sightseers.

The neighbourhood mean fellowship, which aims to forlast and orhold the garden city lifesight, is the Welwyn Garden Stead Fellowship (Norman English: Welwyn Garden City Society).