Bournville
Sign in to saveBournville () is a 19th century model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for employees at its Cadbury's factory, and designed to be a "garden" (or "model") village where the sale of alcohol was forbidden. Historically in northern Worcestershire, it is also a ward within the council constituency of Selly Oak and home to the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts and the Cadbury's chocolate factory. Bournville is regarded as one of the most desirable areas to live in the United Kingdom; research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2003 found th
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- BirminghamBournvilleShops.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The shops around The Green
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Bournville
- UK place.population
- 25,938
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 ward)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Birmingham
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Midlands
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Birmingham Selly Oak
- UK place.post_town
- BIRMINGHAM
- UK place.postcode_district
- B30
- UK place.postcode_area
- B
- UK place.dial_code
- 0121
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Birmingham
- Population
- 25938
- Image
- Cadbury World at Bournville - geograph.org.uk - 14035.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bournville, Birmingham
- P12749
- Populus alba
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Cadbury
- Governance
- Demography
- Education
- Transport
- Religion
- Notable people
- References
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Bournville () is a 19th century model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for employees at its Cadbury's factory, and designed to be a "garden" (or "model") village where the sale of alcohol was forbidden. Historically in northern Worcestershire, it is also a ward within the council constituency of Selly Oak and home to the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts and the Cadbury's chocolate factory. Bournville is regarded as one of the most desirable areas to live in the United Kingdom; research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2003 found that it was "one of the nicest places to live in Britain".
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bournville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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