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This is a list of areas, tourist attractions and other places of interest in the English town of Swindon.
- 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.
- Built around 1952.
- Churchward
- Coleview
- Covingham
- Home to 3,781 residents (2001 census).[1]
- 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) 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).
- Built in the 1970s on the site of Snodshill Farm and including offices of Texaco
- Even Swindon
- Eastleaze
- Eastmead
- Ferndale
- Freshbrook
- 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
- 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
- Estate built 1957-65
- Including the campus of the University of Bath in Swindon containing the Museum of Computing.
- Also includes 4 large tower blocks
- Estate built 1957-65
- Including Cavendish Square, a large shopping area which is now being rebuilt into an indoor shopping center.
- Peatmoor
- Pembroke Park
- Penhill
- Built during the period 1951-55
- 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, the estate was built during the period 1980-84
- Built from 1956
- Walcot West (Old Walcot)
- 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.
[edit] Areas Under Construction
[edit] Places of interest
[edit] References
- ^ Covingham Census Information. Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire County Council. Retrieved on 2006-12-19.
- ^ Duroconovio Wanborough, Wiltshire. The Roman Map of Britain. Retrieved on 2006-12-19.
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