Model Village, Creswell
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Model Village, Creswell
Image: © Colin Park Taken: 29 Jul 2021
Creswell Model Village is an arts and crafts style model village. The pit village was built in 1895 by the Bolsover Colliery Company to designs by architect Percy B. Houfton for the workers of Creswell Colliery on land leased from the Welbeck Estate. Influenced by garden village principles, it provided the workers with modern facilities; it had a tramway to deliver coal to the houses. Designed around a large oval village green with an access road through the centre, the houses are of varying styles. The Model as it is known, has been refurbished. (source Wikipedia)
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Image Location
Latitude
53.260447
Longitude
-1.219685