Hotels in Swindon
Swidon Hotels, Why not get a hotel room in the city of Swindon if you go the city of Swindon ? You may want to see a hotel in the city because you want to you want to see the histroic sites, or the culture of the city. You may want to explore the areas around the city. You may need a hotel as you are visting the city for study or work. Some may require accommodation in the city.
Swindon is a large town, in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire in the South West of England. London is 130 km east. It is on the rail line between London and Bristol, and has one railway station. A resident of Swindon is known as a Swindonian.
Green spaces
Public
parks include Lydiard Country Park, Stanton Park, Barbury Castle, Queens Park
and Coate Water.
Shaw Community Forest is being developed on the site of a
former landfill site in the West of the city.
Areas
Abbey Meads, Bridgemead, Broome Manor, Cheney Manor, Churchward, Coleview, Covingham,
Croft, Dorcan, Eldene, Even Swindon, Eastleaze, Eastmead, Ferndale, Freshbrook,
Gorse Hill, Grange Park, Greenbridge, Greenmeadow, Hawksworth, Haydon Wick, Kingsdown,
Lawn, Liden, Marshgate, Moredon, Middleleaze, Middle Stratton, New Town (a.k.a.
Swindon Town Centre), Nine Elms, North Star, Nythe, Oakhurst, Oakley park, Okus,
Old Town, Park North, Park South, Peatmoor, Pembroke Park, Penhill, Pinehurst,
Prinnels, Priory Vale, Railway Village, Ramleaze, Raybrook Park, Redhouse Rise,
Redhouse Village, Rodbourne, Rodbourne Cheney, Rushey Platt, Shaw, Sparcells,
South Marston, Stratton Village, Stratton St Margaret, Upper Stratton, Lower Stratton,
St Andrew's Ridge, Toothill, Walcot East, Walcot West, (Old Walcot), Westmead,
Westlea Priory Vale - Official Website (a.k.a. North Swindon Development)
Wichelstowe
Places
of interest
Coate Water Country Park, County Ground - Swindon Town F.C.'s stadium, Lydiard
Park Country Park, Lydiard House Historic House, The Magic Roundabout - A large
roundabout containing 5 mini roundabouts, Queens Park, STEAM Railway Museum Museum
Football
Swindon Town FC, Swindon Supermarine FC, Highworth Town FC Football club based in Highworth , Chiseldon FC Football club based in Chiseldon
The Wilts & Berks Canal is a canal in the historic counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, linking the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington, near Melksham, to the River Thames at Abingdon, with a branch to the Thames and Severn Canal at Cricklade. Following local authority boundary changes in 1973 the part of Berkshire through which the canal passes (mostly the Vale of White Horse) was transferred to Oxfordshire.
In 1840, Isambard Kingdom Brunel chose Swindon as the site for the railway works he planned for the Great Western Railway. Eastwards towards London the line was gently graded, while westwards there was a steep descent towards Bath. Swindon was the junction for the proposed line to Gloucester.
Swindon Junction station opened in 1842 and until 1895 every train stopped for at least 10 minutes to change locomotives. As a result, the station hosted the first recorded railway refreshment rooms. There were three storeys to the station in 1842, with the refreshment rooms on the ground floor, he upper floors housing the station hotel and lounge. That building was demolished in 1972, replaced by an office building with a single-storey modern station under it.
The
town's railway works were completed in 1842. The GWR built a small railway 'village'
to house some of its workers. People still live in the those houses and several
of the buildings that made up the railway works remain, although many are vacant.
The Steam Railway Museum now occupies part of the old works. In the village were
the GWR Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon
Road and 1892's Health Centre in Milton Road – which housed clinics, a pharmacy,
laundries, baths, Turkish baths and swimming pools – was almost opposite
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