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Swindon (/ ˈ s w ɪ n d ən / ⓘ) is a town in Wiltshire, England.At the time of the 2021 Census the population of the built-up area was 183,638, making it the largest settlement in the county. [1]
Swindon Borough Council must find £31m in savings in order to balance next year’s budget. Council officers have already identified £12m in cuts, but still face a financial hole of about £19m.
The first borough of Swindon was a municipal borough, created in 1900 as a merger of the two urban districts of Old Swindon and New Swindon. [2]In 1974 the borough of Thamesdown was created under the Local Government Act 1972.
Swindon is a town in Wiltshire in the South West of England. People have lived in the town since the Bronze Age and the town's location, being approximately halfway between Bristol and London, made it an ideal location for the Locomotive Factories of the Great Western Railway in the 19th century.
The town centre has been a point of contention for some years in Swindon [BBC] Each ambition has proposals on how it could be realised. One suggests providing up to 5,000 new homes in the town ...
The county is mostly rural, and the centre and south-west are sparsely populated. After Swindon (183,638), the largest settlements are the city of Salisbury (41,820) and the towns of Chippenham (37,548) and Trowbridge (37,169). For local government purposes, the county comprises two unitary authority areas: Swindon and Wiltshire.
Swindon Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Swindon in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. It was founded in 1974 as Thamesdown Borough Council , and was a lower-tier district council until 1997.
The SN postcode area, also known as the Swindon postcode area, [2] is a group of eighteen postcode districts in England, within ten post towns.These cover north Wiltshire (including Swindon, Chippenham, Calne, Corsham, Devizes, Malmesbury, Marlborough, Melksham and Pewsey), plus a small part of south-west Oxfordshire (including Faringdon) and a very small part of Gloucestershire.