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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 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.
David Murray John – Swindon's town clerk 1938–1974 and a driving force behind Swindon's development and growth; Bob Kilby – speedway rider; Samuel Knaggs – British colonial administrator born in Swindon; Josh Kumra – singer and songwriter; Mark Lamarr – TV presenter, comedian, and radio DJ. Grew up in Park South.
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The Lawns c. 1900 Part of the gardens at The Lawn, 1920. Thomas Goddard of Upham acquired the manor of Swindon in 1563 from the Crown. He later purchased the Crown Inn, renamed the Goddard Arms, which become Swindon's de facto Town Hall, courthouse and council rooms until the mid-19th century.
The Historic England Archive building in Swindon. The Historic England Archive is the public archive of Historic England, located in The Engine House on Fire Fly Avenue in Swindon, formerly part of the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway.
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.
Pages in category "People from the Borough of Swindon" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.