streetplan

Entrance to Tour and Streetplan

You can follow the tour from page to page, starting at Station Place,
or dip in and out of the tour using the links below.
Click on the street names to go straight to that street .

Please note that all the shopping areas and green areas have been
refurbished at least once since this tour was compiled and in several places
there has been demolition or new construction.

Arcade, The	Avenue One	Baldock Road	Birds Hill
Bridge Road	Broadwalk	Broadway South	Cloisters
Common View	Cross Street	Eastcheap	Eastholm Green
Field Lane	Gernon Road	Glebe Road	Green Lane
Hillshott	Hitchin Road	Icknield Way	Letchworth Gate
Letchworth Lane	Leys Avenue	Lytton Avenue	Meadow Way
Muddy Lane	Nevells Road	Norton Common	Norton Road
Norton Way North	Norton Way South	Paddock Close	Pixmore Avenue
Pixmore Way	Quadrant, The	Ridge Avenue	Ridge Road
Rushby Mead	The Sollershotts	South View	Spring Road
Station Place	Station Road	Town Square	Westholm Green
Wilbury Road	Works Road	Wynd, The .

You will get to all these places if you take the tour
or you can use these shortcuts. Just click on the pictures
to visit these featured buildings.
Please use your Back button to return to this page



	The Spirella Building

Click Here for a diagramatic plan of the centre of Letchworth
A few reference points to help you get your bearings
marked on the map with a small blue square and number
The map has clickable links to pages within the tour.

1. Spirella Building
2. Letchworth Station
3. Post Office
4. Town Hall
5. Library
6. Mrs Howard Memorial Hall
7. Garden City Museum
8. Alpha Cottages (First houses built in Garden City )
The current layout has many similarities to the original "Company plan" of 1904. The biggest differences are in the housing placed away from the center. The the lack of funding in the early days of Letchworth resulted in some of the planned town center areas never being fully developed, and the pause in development and changes in priorities caused by the First World War all had their effect.

A carving of part of the original plan which can be found in
Broadwalk at the base of a bust of Ebenezer Howard

Prominent features of the original plan were the central axis and streets radiating from the town square, these features have mainly survived.

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