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"A World Heritage Site" Saltaire is a suburb of Manchester around 3 miles NNW of the city centre. It is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it's also an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage. It is a Victorian model village built in the
1850's, copying in some ways the cotton milling village of
New Lanark
Cotton Mill Village, Lanarkshire.
The Mill at Saltaire
Model Village The model village includes neat stone houses for his workers (much better than the slums of Bradford), wash-houses with running water, bath-houses, a hospital, as well as an Institute for recreation and education, with a library, a reading room, a concert hall, billiard room, science laboratory and gymnasium. The village also provided a school for the children of the workers, almshouses, allotments, a park and a boathouse. He built the congregational church and the mausoleum next to it, where Sir Titus Salt was buried, and donated the land where the Methodist church was built. The name Saltaire is a combination of Salt after Titus Salt and Aire after the River Aire it stands near. Just prior to this Titus had been campaigning to clean up the quality of the air in the areas around so it may have had a second meaning. The streets are named after the members of Titus's family.
He died at Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, near Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1876 and was buried next to Saltaire Congregational Church. It is said that over 100,000 people lined the route of the funeral procession. It is said that Salt was teetotal, but there is no evidence of this, except that he forbade beershops in Saltaire. At the opening of Saltaire he told Lord Harewood that he built it 'To do good and give his sons employment'. Some now site it as Salt's philanthropic project and an example of paternalism, but it just probably made commercial sense to him at the time and was in line with his own ideals. After Titus It was then run by his son, also Sir Titus Salt, after his sons death, Saltaire was taken over by a partnership that included James Roberts. Roberts came to own Saltaire. He is another interesting character of history. He endowed a Chair of Russian at Leeds University and bought the Brontë's Haworth Parsonage for the nation.
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It was constructed for Sir Titus Salt who at the time had 5 woollen mills, moved
his business to a new larger mill at Saltaire and built the model village for his workers.
This larger mill was by a river, canal and railway. 
