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A town is gearing up for its first-ever wellbeing festival. The Swindon Wellbeing Festival will take place on 8 and 9 February at the Wiltshire town's STEAM Museum.
The estate includes Swinton Park, the seat of the Danby family and (from 1882) of the Cunliffe-Lister family (the Earls of Swinton), an English country house in Swinton near Masham. It is set in 200 acres (81 ha) of parkland, lakes and gardens. The house is a Grade II* listed building, [2] and now operates as the 42-bedroom Swinton Park Hotel.
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.
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Lydiard Park was the home of the St John family from 1420 until 1940. In 1943, the local authority, the Corporation of Swindon, bought the then dilapidated house and its overgrown park from the estate trustees. The estate now belongs to Swindon Borough Council, the successor of the Corporation.
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In 1943, [4] Councillor and Alderman Francis Akers bought the estate and the dilapidated house at auction and sold the whole to the local authority, the Corporation of Swindon, for £4,500. [citation needed] Part of lake and park, with house and church tower in the background. Since 1955, the park has been open to the public all year round.
If Swindon Borough Council is to join up with another local authority in order to gain more powers, it may look towards the M4 corridor rather than the south. The government has published a white ...