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This is a list of areas, tourist attractions and other places of interest in the English town of Swindon.

Areas

  • Abbey Meads
  • Bridgemead
  • Broome Manor
Home to the Broome Manor Golf Course and various businesses including the world headquarters of Burmah Castrol as well as the UK headquarters of the Nationwide Building Society and Intel.
  • Cheney Manor
Built around 1952.
Home to 3,781 residents (2001 census).[1] Covingham Park estate was built in 1964.
  • Croft
  • Dorcan
Taking its name from the nearby Dorkerne (now Dorcan) brook,[2] Dorcan lies between Eldene, Liden, Covingham and the A419 bypass. Parts of these surrounding areas are also sometimes referred to as being in Dorcan (such as Eldene Shopping Centre which uses Dorcan in its address). It is the site of the Dorcan Industrial Estate which includes the UK Headquarters of Tyco Electronics and offices of Npower (UK), Equiinet, MMG MagDev, Romec, House of Fraser (information systems), the Royal Mail sorting office and buildings owned by Woolworths. The pharmaceutical company Patheon also has a large facility here.
Dorcan Technology College (Formerly Dorcan Comprehensive School), now known as The Dorcan Academy, is also in this area, providing the locality with sports facilities, notable as it is the school attended by Melinda Messenger and actor Mark Lawrence (from the series Band of Brothers).
  • Eldene
Built in the 1970s on the site of Snodshill Farm and including offices of Texaco
Part of West Swindon, the Estate was built during the period 1980-84.
Including offices of RWE, Lucent Technologies and Cable & Wireless at Windmill Hill
  • Gorse Hill
  • Grange Park
  • Greenbridge
Mainly given over to large areas of business including the world heaquarters of WH Smith and the former site of the EMI UK CD pressing plant.
  • Greenmeadow
  • Hawksworth
  • Haydon Wick
  • Kingsdown
  • Lawn
  • Liden
Includes 3 large tower blocks
  • Marshgate
  • Moredon
  • Middleleaze
  • Middle Stratton
  • New Town (a.k.a. Swindon Town Centre)
  • Nine Elms
  • North Star
Including the Oasis leisure centre and Swindon College
  • Nythe
  • Oakhurst (commenced building in 2006 and still ongoing)
  • Oakley park
  • Okus
A fountain in Town Gardens, Old Town
  • Old Town
  • Park North
Estate built 1957-65
Also includes 3 10-storey tower blocks
  • Park South
Estate built 1957-65
Including Cavendish Square, a shopping area which has now been rebuilt into a smaller shopping area with the removal of the residential flats above the shops, except George Hall Court. Nearby St. Clements Court has also been demolished and new homes built.
  • Peatmoor
  • Pembroke Park
  • Penhill
Built during the period 1951-55
Includes 3 10-storey tower blocks
  • Pinehurst
Built during the period 1910-20 as Swindon's first council housing estate.
  • Prinnels
  • Priory Vale
  • Railway Village
Built in 1840-45 by the Great Western Railway to house its employees.
  • Ramleaze
  • Raybrook Park
  • Redhouse Rise
  • Redhouse Village
  • Rodbourne
  • Rodbourne Cheney
  • Rushey Platt
  • Shaw
  • Sparcells
  • South Marston
Including the UK Headquarters of Zimmer and the large Honda car factory.
Part of West Swindon, council estate built during the period 1980-84
  • Walcot East
Built from 1956
Formerly included the University of Bath in Swindon at Oakfield campus, which has been demolished. This is was situated very close to Park North.
  • Walcot West (Old Walcot)
Built from the mid-1930s
  • Westmead
  • Westlea
The West Swindon shopping centre was Swindon's first out of town shopping centre, with a supermarket and other small shops. The supermarket was originally a Carrefour but is now a large Asda.
Including offices of Intergraph and the Delta Tennis Centre and home to the British and Foreign Bible Society.

Areas Under Construction

Places of interest

Key
Abbey/Priory/Cathedral
Accessible open space Accessible open space
Amusement/Theme Park
Castle
Country Park Country Park
English Heritage
Forestry Commission
Heritage railway Heritage railway
Historic house Historic House
Places of Worship Places of Worship
Museum (free)
Museum		 Museum (free/not free)
National Trust National Trust
Theatre
Zoo

See also

References

  1. ^ "Covingham Census Information". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire County Council. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
  2. ^ "Duroconovio Wanborough, Wiltshire". The Roman Map of Britain. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
  3. ^ "History of Rodbourne". Rodbourne History Society. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
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