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  • Manchester, United Kingdom
    A major city in the North West of England. During the Industrial Revolution it became the main centre of cotton textile production in the United Kingdom.
  • Marki, Poland
    A town in Poland built as a model village to house workers for a textile factory.
  • Melbourne, Australia
    Melbourne is an Australian city and the capital of the state of Victoria.
  • Methley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
    A viilage near Leeds in West Yorkshire. Titus Salt rented Methley Park as his main home between 1858 and 1867.
  • Methodist Church building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
    The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel that first stood on this site was built in 1868 on land gifted by Titus Salt. The original church was demolished in 1970 due to its deteriorating condition. The current Methodist Church was built in 1971 and was subsequently modified to be more in keeping with the surrounding village. Saltaire has survived into the 21st century remarkably unscathed. With the Bath and Wash Houses and the Congregational Sunday School, the Wesleyan Methodist Church is one of the few buildings to have been lost.
  • Milner Field, Bingley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
    Milner Field was a neo-gothic mansion built for Titus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt. They purchased Milner Field Estate on the ourskirts of Bingley in 1869. An existing manor house and farm were demolished and replaced with a new house, completed in 1871, and a new model farm. At Milner Field, the Salts hosted the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1882 when they were visting Bradord. In 1887 Princess Beatrice and her husband also stayed at the house while visting to open the new School of Art and Science in Saltaire.
  • Montefalcione, Italy
    City in California, United States of America
  • Morley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
    A village near Leeds in West Yorkshire. Titus Salt was born here in 1803. The Salt family lived at the The Manor House.
  • Moscow, Russia
    Capital city of Russia
  • New Lanark, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
    New Lanark was founded in 1785 as the site of a new cotton mill and housing for its workers. Under the later progressie ownership of Robert Owen the site became famous. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • New York, United States of America
    New York is a major city in the north east of the United States of America.
  • Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
    Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghmashire in the English midlands. Lawrence Salt, a son of Titus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt, had a home at Barnby Manor near Newark.
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom
    Major city in the North East of England.
  • Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom
    Newton Abbot is a market town in Devon in south west England.
  • Northcliffe, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
    Northcliffe is an area on the south side of the Aire Valley near to Saltaire. It was a site of woods, agriculture, coal mining and stone quarrying from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, In 1919 Norman Rae, a local mill owner and MP for Shipley, donated £12,500 to the local council to purchase 114 acres of Northcliffe for use by the public. It is now a park, allotments and playing fields.
  • Oberammergau, Germany
    Town in Bavaria, Germany. Visited by Isabel Salt during her European travels.
  • Ossett, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
    Ossett is a market town near to Wakefield in West Yorkshire
  • Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
    Oxenhope is a rural village near to Haworth and Keighley in West Yorkshire. Sir James Roberts was born in Oxenhope.
  • Oxted, Surrey, United Kingdom
    Oxted is a town in Surrey, United Kingdom. It was the location of a home of Isabel Salt in her later life.