Bournville

Bournville
The shops around The Green
Bournville is located in West Midlands county
Bournville
Bournville
Location within the West Midlands
Population25,938 (2011.ward)[1]
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBIRMINGHAM
Postcode districtB30
Dialling code0121
PoliceWest Midlands
FireWest Midlands
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
West Midlands
52°25′48″N 1°56′08″W / 52.4299°N 1.9355°W / 52.4299; -1.9355

Bournville (/ˈbɔːrnvɪl/) is a model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for employees at its Cadbury's factory,[2] and designed to be a "garden" (or "model") village[3] where the sale of alcohol was forbidden.[4] Cadbury's is well known for chocolate products – including a dark chocolate bar branded Bournville. Historically in northern Worcestershire, it is also a ward within the council constituency of Selly Oak and home to the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts and the Cadbury's chocolate factory. Bournville is known as one of the most desirable areas to live in the UK; research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2003 found that it was "one of the nicest places to live in Britain".[5]

  1. ^ "Birmingham Ward population 2011". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. ^ "The Bournville Story". bvt.org.
  3. ^ "About Bournville". cadbury.co.uk.
  4. ^ Dean Kirby (2 October 2015). "Bournville: Trying to get a drink in the village where alcohol has been banned for 120 years". independent.co.uk.
  5. ^ Is this the nicest place to live in Britain?, BBC News, 9 July 2003