Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden City is a town (not a city) in Hertfordshire, England. Welwyn Garden City is also known as WGC or, somewhat incorrectly, "Welwyn". This can cause confusion as the village of Welwyn actually lies a few miles to the northwest of WGC.

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Town - City - Hertfordshire - England - Welwyn

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Welwyn Garden City, as its name suggests, is a garden city, founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the 1920s following his previous experiments in Hampstead Garden Suburb and Letchworth Garden City, and designed by Louis de Soissons. Howard had called for the creation of new towns of limited size, planned in advance, and surrounded by a permanent belt of agricultural land, as a role model for lower-density suburban development. Howard believed that such Garden Cities were the perfect blend of city and nature.

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Garden city - Ebenezer Howard - 1920s - Hampstead Garden Suburb - Letchworth Garden City - New town - Suburb

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The BBC TV series Superstars was famously filmed in Welwyn Garden City throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

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BBC - Superstars - 1970s - 1980s

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Famous Welwyn Garden City former and current residents include The Subways, David James (England goalkeeper), Artist Damien Hirst, Nick Faldo (golfer), Lisa Snowdon (model) and Rolling Stones' Mick Taylor.

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The Subways - David James - Damien Hirst - Nick Faldo - Lisa Snowdon - Rolling Stones - Mick Taylor

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Welwyn Garden City is well known by avid readers of the side of breakfast cereal boxes in Britain as the town where Shredded Wheat and Shreddies are made, at the former Nabisco factory (now part of Nestlé). The factory is due to close within the next few years, as Nestlé say that the current site is too small, and that production should be moved to Devon.

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Shredded Wheat - Shreddies - Nabisco - Nestlé

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The local newspaper is the Welwyn and Hatfield Times edited by Mr.Terry Mitchinson.

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