Stewartby
town, England, United Kingdom
Also known as: Wootton Pillinge
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Stewartby is a town in Bedfordshire, England, located southwest of Bedford town. It was originally known as Wootton Pillinge and was renamed in the 1920s after the Stewart family, who developed it as a model village. Stewartby was once home to the world's largest brickworks, utilizing the local Oxford clays, but brickmaking operations ceased in 2008. The Stewart family name is historically linked to the royal House of Stuart, which ruled Scotland and England.12
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