CRESWELL MODEL VILLAGE

Designed by architect Percy B. Houfton, 'Creswell Model Village' is an arts and crafts style model village built in Creswell, Derbyshire in 1895 by the Bolsover Mining Company to accommodate workers and families of the newly founded Creswell Colliery (on land leased from the Welbeck Estate). Influenced by garden village principles, its purpose was to provide the workers with modern facilities; the village even provided a miniature railway to deliver coal to the houses. Designed around a large village green the houses are of varying styles and form a large oval shape with an access road through the centre.
'The Model', as it is known, has recently been refurbished.
Located within the Parish of Elmton with Creswell in the district of Bolsover on the North East edge of Derbyshire.
The houses that make up the Model Village display a range of decorative roofing styles.


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See also
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★ Creswell, Derbyshire

★ Creswell Crags

★ Model village

★ Elmton

★ Woodlands, South Yorkshire

★ Port Sunlight

★ Stewartby

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