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SHROPSHIRE

Coalbrookdale 1780s
FOUNDER/LEADER:Abraham Darby
Housing, schools and landscaping carried out by Quakers Ironmasters. The company lso provided food at costprice in times of shortages
GRID REF: SJ658034
REF: Quakers in Science and Industry

Highley 'Garden Village' C1900
"Garden Village" built to house miners by theThe Billingsley Colliery Company at the north of Highley. Shops, pubs, a chapel and a cinema followed the houses.
GRID REF:
REF: http://www.highleyshrop.co.uk/history.html

Wheathill Bruderhof 1942 - 1960
Farm bought by the Bruderhof for their English members when the main German group went to Paraguay. Served as a refuge for pacifists and had grown to 200 members by 1950.
GRID REF: Lower Bromden,nr Ludlow
REF: Utopian England/ Bruderhof Museum