Letchworth Garden City

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Letchworth Garden City
Letchworth Garden City Railway Station
Letchworth Garden City Railway Station
Coordinates 51 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 13 ′  W
OS National Grid TL215325
Letchworth Garden City (England)
Letchworth Garden City
Letchworth Garden City
Residents 32,932 (as of April 29, 2001) United Kingdom Census 2001
administration
Post town LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY
ZIP code section SG6
prefix 01462
Part of the country England
region East of England
Shire county Hertfordshire
District North Hertfordshire
Website: http://www.letchworth.com

The English town of Letchworth Garden City (often called Letchworth for short ) in the county of Hertfordshire was the first attempt at realizing a garden city . It was founded in 1903 around 50 kilometers north of London .

The planning was carried out by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin . The total area consists of 2057 hectares and the open spaces within the city 52 hectares of land.

Letchworth Garden City was supposed to meet the new social reform approaches that Ebenezer Howard had put in urban planning. A separate industry was set up to form an independent small-town unit. However, this city was never self-sufficient, but dependent on London from the start.

Today 33,249 inhabitants live in the city (as of 2011). The city is the administrative seat of the district of North Hertfordshire .

sons and daughters of the town

Town twinning

Letchworth has three sister cities :

Trivia

The city is patron of the so-called Letchworth Enigma , a cryptanalytic approach, which in the UK after the Codebreaker Alan Turing (1912-1954) invented Turing bomb was used, the use Allies during World War II German Enigma - radio messages " cracked " .

Individual evidence

  1. Letchworth Garden City - History  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.north-herts.gov.uk  
  2. ^ Quick Facts, Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation . Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2015.

Web links

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