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Within the area of the former urban district lies the model village of Woodlands, built for Brodsworth Colliery.
The model village is a 1:9 replica of the village and includes a model of the model village itself (a model within a model).
Port Sunlight was a model village built for the workers at the soap factory of Lever Brothers, founded by William Lever.
In the mid-1850s, he helped found the Yorkshire Penny Bank (to encourage workers to save), and he worked closely with the Halifax Permanent Building Society (later the Halifax Building Society) to promote home ownership through his model village Akroydon.
John Grubb Richardson (13 November 1813 – 1891) was an Irish linen merchant, industrialist and philanthropist who founded the model village of Bessbrook near Newry in 1845, in what is now Northern Ireland.
In 2004 it was announced that a further scheme would be built to heat the UK's first geothermal energy model village near Eastgate, County Durham.
It was conceived as a model village by the industrialist Francis Henry Crittall who established a Crittall Windows Ltd factory there to manufacture components for metal windows.
His son, Sir William Forwood, chairman of Liverpool Overhead Railway, let the house to William Lever (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme), builder of the soap factory and model village at Port Sunlight, in 1888.
Considering the tourism potential of this craft village, the Government of Assam has declared the village as a model village and brought under its rural tourism projects.
In 1936 the model village of Hierlshagen (present-day Ostaszów in Poland) built by the RAD was named after him.