Stewartby

Coordinates: 52°04′09″N 0°30′50″W / 52.0691°N 0.5139°W / 52.0691; -0.5139

Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, originally built for the workers of The London Brick Company. The village housing and town community centre was designed by the noted neo-Georgian architect Sir Albert Richardson a later and more modern development than such better-known Victorian model villages as Saltaire. Today, Stewartby parish also includes Kempston Hardwick.

Started in 1926, Stewartby is also a later model village than Woodlands which was first planned in 1905.

The town takes its name from the Stewart family, whose famous son Sir Malcolm Stewart who bought the London Brick Company in the town in the 1920s. The site closed in 2008 as the owners, Hanson, cannot meet UK limits for sulphur dioxide emissions. The four chimneys remaining were due to be demolished upon closure but these have since been listed for preservation of Bedfordshire's brick-related history. and will remain.