Bekonscot

Bekonscot in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, is the oldest model village in the world.

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It portrays aspects of England mostly dating from the 1930s, boasting a fine model railway. Bekonscot has been run by the Church Army since 1978 and donates large amounts of money to charity.

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It features prominently in the Will Self short story Scale.

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Beaconsfield: Beaconsfield is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 30 miles NW of London. The town sits in the highly attractive Chiltern Hills and is part of the London commuter belt, thus the average cost of housing in the town is extremely high....

Buckinghamshire: Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury....

Model village: Model villages were a classification of social/industrial developments created in the UK during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were built by philanthropist developers such as Titus Salt and George Cadbury to house their workers as well as providing them with social amenities....