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Read the text and fill in the gaps with the word which best fits each space. There are two extra words you do not need to choose.George and Richard Cadbury …(1)… over the cocoa and chocolate business from their father in 1861. A few years later, they decided to …(2)… the factory out of the centre of Birmingham, a city in the middle of England, to a new location where they could expand. They chose an area close to the railways and canals …(3)… that they could receive milk deliveries easily and send the finished products to stores across the country.Here, the air was much cleaner than in the city centre, and the Cadbury brothers thought it would be a much healthier place …(4)… their employees to work. They named the site Bournville after a local river called ‘The Bourn’. ‘Ville’, the French word for town, was used because at the time, people thought French chocolate was the highest quality. The new factory opened in 1879. Close …(5)… it, they built a village where the factory workers could live. By 1900, there were 313 houses on the site, and many more were built later.