Saltaire

Saltaire is a Victorian model village in the City of Bradford metropolitan district, West Yorkshire, built between 1851 and 1876 by the industrialist Sir Titus Salt to house workers at his adjacent worsted textile mill on the River Aire. The village was designed to provide housing, educational, and recreational facilities of a quality far superior to typical Victorian industrial housing, and represents one of the earliest and most complete examples of enlightened industrial paternalism in Britain. Saltaire was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001 in recognition of its outstanding universal value as an exceptionally well-preserved example of a mid-Victorian planned industrial settlement. The village's grid of stone streets is still largely intact and inhabited, with Salts Mill at its heart now converted into a gallery, shops, and offices.