Although this plan of the Hampstead Garden suburb is dated a few years after Queen Victoria had died, the ideas behind the Garden Suburb are very much Victorian. The concept was one of an ideal community of people of different social classes living peacefully together and indeed, learning from each other.

There were many Victorians who were appalled at the conditions in which lots of people lived, especially city dwellers. They came up with ideas to try to improve this situation.

From the plan you can see how carefully everything was worked out. There were different sized houses and plots of land for the different social groups. The Garden Suburb idea became a popular one across the country and there is likely to be an example of one in a town near you.