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51.56°N 1.78°W. / 51.56; -1.78. Swindon ( / ˈswɪndən / ⓘ) is a town in Wiltshire, England. At the time of the 2021 Census the population of the built-up area was 183,638, making it the largest settlement in the county. [1] Located in South West England, Swindon lies on the M4 corridor, 71 miles (114km) to the west of London and 36 miles ...
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Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, United Kingdom.....
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History of Swindon. 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.
May 15, 2024 · Until 1841 Swindon was a small market town, but, when the Great Western Railway built its main engineering works there, the population rapidly increased to 45,000. During the 1950s the town decided to accept overspill population and industry from Greater London, about 75 miles (120 km) to the east. Considerable redevelopment and rapid growth ...
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Swindon. Swindon is a large town in the Borough of Swindon in the county of Wiltshire, South West England. It is the largest settlement in Wiltshire. About 234,000 people live there. It is 81 miles west of London, 40 miles west of Reading, Berkshire, and 40 miles east of Bristol .
- 233,400 (Borough, 2021 census)
- England
Katherine Matilda Swinton was born on 5 November 1960 in London, the daughter of Judith Balfour (née Killen; 1929–2012) and Sir John Swinton (1925–2018), the Laird of Kimmerghame House. She has three brothers. [5] Her father was a retired major-general in the British Army, and was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1989 to 2000.
Feb 15, 2024 · 15 February 2024. Comments 2. Swindon is one of the most important historic railway towns in England. In the middle of the 19th century, the Great Western Railway transformed Swindon from a small, hilltop market town into an industrial giant with one of the largest railway engineering complexes in the world.
Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, south west England, that is known for its railway-town heritage and links with the British railway system in which it played a central part during the 19th and 20th centuries. Swindon hosts a railway museum in a restored railway works building, and a volunteer-run heritage railway.
