Stewartby
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Stewartby is a model village in Bedfordshire, originally built for the workers in of The London Brick Company. It was a later, more modern and much improved development than such better-known Victorian model villages as Saltaire.
Started in 1926, Stewartby is also a later model village than Woodlands which was first planned in 1905.
The town takes its name from the Stewart family, who's famous son Sir Malcolm Stewart founded the London Brick Company in the town in the 1920s.
Stewartby has a railway station on the Marston Vale Line.
The village is the planned location for the proposed National institute for research into aquatic habitats, to be the world's largest aquarium, and would deal primarily in fresh water life.
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