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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 Wiltshire and Swindon Archives Service cares for and gives access to the archival heritage of the county and borough. It was established in 1947 and now holds over seven miles of archives, representing over 3,000 organisations and millions of individuals and their history, stretching back to Norman times.
The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Swindon sat in a defensible position atop a limestone hill. It is referred to in the 1086 Domesday Book as Suindune, [2] believed to be derived from the Old English words "swine" and "dun" meaning "pig hill" or possibly Sweyn's hill, Sweyn being a Scandinavian name akin to Sven and English swain, meaning a young man.
Historic England Archives – over a million free online catalogue descriptions of photographs and records of England's buildings and heritage sites. No longer updated. England's Places – Discover photos of English cities, towns and villages using this online version of the Architectural Red Box Collection from the Historic England Archive.
In the period 1951–1981, Swindon's population grew by 70 percent, [3] "some 58 per cent higher than the national average over the same period". [1] In the 1980s, Swindon became the fastest growing town in Europe. [1] Murray John died in 1974 and is honoured in the name of the David Murray John Tower in the centre of Swindon.
Articles relating to the town of Swindon, Wiltshire in the United Kingdom. For articles on the wider district of Swindon, see Category:Borough of Swindon Wikimedia Commons has media related to Swindon .
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.
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