Out of copyright Ebenezer Howard imagined the development of ... the world's first two garden cities in Hertfordshire, Letchworth Garden City in 1903 and Welwyn Garden City in 1920.

In 1919, Sir Ebenezer Howard, the garden city movement's founder, bought land for a second town following his first project, Letchworth Garden City. The town was born in April 1920, when the ...