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Braydon is a civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Swindon, between Purton and Minety. A thinly-populated farming area with no settlements apart from the farms, it is best known for sharing its name with Braydon Forest. The River Key rises in the parish and flows north-east to join the Thames.
In reviewing S. P. B. Mais's The Home Counties (Batsford The Face of Britain series, 1942), Norah Richardson noted that "the home counties" was a term in constant use but hard to define, but that Mais's definition of "the five counties around London County – Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent and Surrey" could not be improved upon.
Housing in the United Kingdom represents the largest non-financial asset class in the UK; its overall net value passed the £5 trillion mark in 2014. [1] [needs update] Housing includes modern and traditional styles. About 30% of homes are owned outright by their occupants, and a further 40% are owner-occupied on a mortgage.
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.
In the north, part of the parish is within the New Eastern Villages mixed use development area, an eastward expansion of Swindon which will include around 8,000 houses. The Swindon Borough Local Plan 2026, adopted in 2015, states that the character and identity of Bishopstone will be protected by a rural buffer. [6]
Calne; Castle Combe; Castle Eaton; Chapmanslade; Charlton, Brinkworth; Charlton, Pewsey Vale; Charlton-All-Saints; Cherhill; Chicklade; Chilmark; Chilton Foliat ...
The Wiltshire economy benefits from the "M4 corridor effect", which attracts business, and the attractiveness of its countryside, towns and villages.The northern part of the county is richer than the southern part, particularly since Swindon is home to national and international corporations such as , Intel, [2] Motorola, [3] Patheon, [4] Catalent [5] (formerly known as Cardinal Health ...
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 ...