14 Facts About Letchworth

Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

Letchworth was an ancient parish, appearing in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Letchworth today retains large business areas providing jobs in a variety of sectors, and the landlord's profits are reinvested for the benefit of the community by the Heritage Foundation.

Letchworth was a relatively small parish, having a population in 1801 of 67, rising to 96 by 1901.

Letchworth adopted this as its name for the town, but adoption of the name was not universal.

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Letchworth's founding citizens, attracted by the promise of a better life, were often caricatured by outsiders as idealistic and otherworldly.

Letchworth A was decommissioned in 1968, followed by Letchworth B in 1974.

Letchworth'storically, Letchworth was an ancient parish in the hundred of Broadwater.

Parish of Letchworth was included in the Hitchin Poor Law Union from 1835.

The 1894 Act created parish councils, but Letchworth's population was below the threshold to be given one, and so it only had a parish meeting.

Civil parish of Letchworth was substantially enlarged on 1 April 1908 to take over the area of Norton parish, which was abolished, and the northern part of Willian parish.

Letchworth had one of the first purpose-built cinemas in the country, the Picture Palace on Eastcheap, which opened in 1909 and closed in 1977.

Private schools in Letchworth include the St Christopher School and St Francis' College.

The film is structured around a pub crawl, and several premises in Letchworth were used to portray the pubs in the film, including shops and the Broadway Cinema as well as the small number of actual pubs in town.