The £530m town designed to look 'exactly' like Britain built over 5,000 miles away
- Posted on January 9, 2026
- By The Mirror
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The £530m town designed to look 'exactly' like Britain built over 5,000 miles away

Thames Town was built as part of a development to ease overpopulation in Shanghai and was designed to look like a British village complete with cobbled streets, red phone boxes and Victorian terraces