Letchworth has developed over the years after starting life as the worlds first Garden City, founded in 1903 and built on what was a greenfield site in northern Hertfordshire. Letchworth came about after the urban planning ideas of Ebenezer Howard's book Tomorrow: A peaceful path to real reform, which inspired the developers of the new garden city to build a city where the countryside and town became one, and offered people nice houses in a well planned area instead of the cramped housing situations of in the inner-cities such as London.
The city is quite small in size in comparison with a lot of cities, with a population of just over 30,000 but offers a relaxed way of life, with tree lined streets, and many open spaces providing pleasant green areas along side parades of shops selling a range of goods.
Letchworth is well situated for both road travel via the A1(M) and also fast trains to London via Hitchin, and is widely known as a leafy commuter location, with many of it's inhabitants travelling via train into London to go to work.
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