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For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Wiltshire with Gloucestershire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of South Cotswolds, resulting in a major reconfiguration of Chippenham.
A map showing the location of Scotland's Marine Protected Areas highlights the extent of the Scottish zone and continental shelf adjacent to Scotland.. The Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999 (SI 1999/1126) is a statutory instrument of the United Kingdom government, defining the boundaries of internal waters, territorial sea, and British Fishing Limits adjacent to Scotland. [1]
Swinson was born in Glasgow [2] on 5 February 1980, the daughter of Peter and Annette Swinson. [12] She was educated at Douglas Academy, [13] a mixed state school in the town of Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire in western Scotland, followed by the London School of Economics, where she studied Management, gaining a first-class Bachelor of Science degree in 2000. [14]
This is a list of the 109 present and extant Viscounts in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.Note that it does not include extant viscountcies which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with higher peerages and are today in use only as subsidiary titles.
Swindon is a railway town, and until the latter part of the 20th century the related works were the primary employer. [5] Today, Swindon is the home of a number of large companies: examples specific to South Swindon include Intel's European headquarters, [6] Nationwide's headquarters [7] and Zurich Financial Services' UK headquarters.
A community governance review in 2015–2016 led to the creation of West Swindon parish, effective from April 2017. [8] [9] Besides the modern housing area, the parish extends west to include Lydiard Park, [2] which had been bought by the Corporation of Swindon in 1943. [10] The park was the grounds of the 17th-century mansion known as Lydiard ...
Frederick Large, in his book A Swindon Retrospect 1855–1930 comments: "At Wroughton Feast, an annual festival lasting a week, it was the custom for many years for "the champion gip" to fight the best man who could be produced, for a purse of gold. The venue was the paddock at the back of the Three Tuns tavern, where the usual paraphernalia of ...