Welcome to the Welwyn Garden City Society website.
Welwyn Garden City, founded almost 90 years ago by Ebenezer Howard, is a thriving town around 20 miles north of London. Designed around ground breaking town planning concepts by Ebenezer Howard, Welwyn Garden City became “A town designed for heathy living” as was the remit. The diagram shown below, now famous amongst town planners across the world, shows the thinking behind the design of the Garden City: the marriage of town and country as expressed by Ebenezer Howard himself.
Howard's Three Magnets concept
Please have a look around the site and discover more about the town, and contemporary issues.
