 Onslow Village Ltd acquired or just over a square mile of land from Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow in 1920 for approximately one quarter of its market value at the time.The aim was to create a "Garden City" to be modelled on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Movement.It was their intention to build a self-contained community with smallholdings, public buildings, open spaces, recreation grounds, woodland and a railway station, as well as developing sites for churches, hotels and factories.