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Famous UK and Irish model villages include:
Model villages were also built in the United States along the same lines as planned industrial communities, for example at Gwinn, Michigan . The term ''model village'' can also refer to scale miniature villages created as tourist attractions as a type of . Examples elsewhere include Legoland (various sites in Europe and the US) and Woodleigh Replicas in Canada. Some villages were built up around coal mines. In Yorkshire, the villages of Grimethorpe , Goldthorpe , Woodlands and Fitzwilliam were all built to house workers at the colliery, around which the houses were built. Following the mass pit closures of 1984-94, many of these villages suffered from huge losses in population. |
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