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Arkell's Brewery was established in Swindon, England by John Arkell in 1843, and has been owned by members of the Arkell family since its establishment.It is Swindon's oldest company, built initially on the massive expansion of Swindon in the Victorian era with the arrival of the railways and the decision by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to site the Great Western Railway Works in Swindon in 1841.
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.
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 ...
Day House Lane Stone Circle, also known as Coate Stone Circle, is a stone circle near the hamlet of Coate, now on the southeastern edge of Swindon, in the English county of Wiltshire. The ring was part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early ...
Until the construction of the town hall on the High Street, the town council had met in the Goddard Arms on the High Street. [3] This small pub had been owned by the Goddard family since 1621 and was a small cottage alehouse known as the Crown until 1820. [3]
Highworth is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, [2] England, about 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Swindon town centre. The 2021 Census recorded a population of 8,258. [1] The town is notable for its Queen Anne and Georgian buildings, dating from its pre-eminence in the 18th century. It also has a 13th-century church, St ...
The business started life as part of Loch Fyne Oysters but, in September 2006, the restaurant chain (then comprising 36 restaurants [1]) was bought by Greene King for £68 million. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Loch Fyne Oysters continues in business under separate ownership; it owns the "Loch Fyne" brand and supplied much of the seafood used by the restaurant ...
Warnford Place is a country house, southeast of the church, with grounds overlooking the River Cole. One wing of an 18th-century house survives, following remodelling by Lord Banbury in 1904. [ 13 ] The house, then known as Sevenhampton Place, was owned by Ian Fleming and his wife Ann from 1960 [ 14 ] until her death in 1981.