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Akroydon

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It was to be a model village not only in the architectural sense but also in a social sense, as the houses were built in various sizes for people from all economic classes, who were offered low cost mortgages to buy them. The village was to be managed by a committee of residents. There was a working
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According to Walter L Creese, this "suburb on the moors" was Akroyd's attempt "to justify contemporary upheaval, to rationalize for himself and others the improvement and purpose of the factory system as it was replacing the cottage industries".
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As Scott's original plan to have dormer windows in the cottages was unacceptable to members of the Akroyd Town Building Association, Akroyd employed a local architect –
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The village was built with the support of the Halifax Permanent Building Society which later became the
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Creese, Walter L. (1977). "Imagination in the Suburb". In Knoepflmacher, U.C.; Tennyson, G. B. (eds.).
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Whelan, A. (2004). "The Victoria Cross in Akroydon: a monument to the British constitution".
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In the middle of the quadrangle, known as The Square, Akroyd had a monument called the
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Town Planning – A brief summary of some key dates and places and people, with links
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in 1899 and lived with his parents at Chester Road, Akroydon.
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The Aesthetics of Utopia: Saltaire, Akroydon and Bedford Park
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Index



William Swinden Barber
Queen Victoria
Victorian-era
model village
Boothtown
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
Gothic
George Gilbert Scott
Edward Akroyd
W. H. Crossland
Victoria Cross
Queen Victoria
William Wordsworth
The Excursion
Eleanor Cross
Eric Portman
John Reginald Halliday Christie
Northowram
Listed buildings in Halifax, West Yorkshire
All Souls' Church, Halifax
Bankfield Museum
Copley, West Yorkshire
Stewartby
Woodlands
Halifax Building Society
"A Halifax church with a story to tell"

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