Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop was leading guided walks at Nenthead, one of a network of 'model' villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Yallop visits and revisits a range of Britain's 'model' villages, from Scotland's New Lanark mills to the Arts and Crafts Cottages of Port Sunlight. Mixes social and political history, art and architecture, travelogue, biography, philosophy and memoir.