Bournville

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Bournville
The shops around The Green
Bournville Location within the West Midlands
Population	25,938 (2011.ward)[1]
Metropolitan borough	Birmingham
Metropolitan county	West Midlands
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BIRMINGHAM
Postcode district	B30
Dialling code	0121
Police	West Midlands
Fire	West Midlands
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Birmingham Selly Oak
List of places UK England West Midlands 52°25′48″N 1°56′08″W / 52.4299°N 1.9355°W / 52.4299; -1.9355

Bournville (/ˈbɔːrnvɪl/) is a model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for employees at its Cadbury's factory,^[2] and designed to be a "garden" (or "model") village^[3] where the sale of alcohol was forbidden.^[4] Cadbury's is well known for chocolate products – including a dark chocolate bar branded Bournville. Historically in northern Worcestershire, it is also a ward within the council constituency of Selly Oak and home to the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts and the Cadbury's chocolate factory. Bournville is known as one of the most desirable areas to live in the UK; research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2003 found that it was "one of the nicest places to live in Britain".^[5]