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A History of the County of Gloucester
… including most of Brockhampton, were transferred to Swindon, and the remaining 2,719 a. of the civil parish of … Brockhampton (47 in 1951), which had been transferred to Swindon. Trans. B.G.A.S. xxi. 6667. Glos. R.O., D 1637/T 6. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Bishopstone BISHOPSTONE Bishopstone is 10 km. east of Swindon on Wiltshire's border with that part of Oxfordshire … has never been made up. The Icknield Way, the road from Swindon to Wantage (Berks., later Oxon.), was in places a … out of use. 11 None of the roads leading south from the Swindon-Wantage road leaves the parish, and in 1980 Russley …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… with the date R.H. 1675. Newtown, in Exeter, and New Swindon, are examples that favour this idea. The name …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and to the west Malthouse Farm was built beside the Swindon-Malmesbury road between c. 1808 and c. 1840. 57 … in 1778 and 1859 in a cottage on the north side of the Swindon-Malmesbury road. 297 In 1783 the rector and the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… lies at the head of the Kennet valley 7 km. south-west of Swindon. 1 The parish included Broad Hinton, Bincknoll, … Its decline was a result of the turnpiking in 1767 of the Swindon-Devizes road which ran south-west from Red Barn to … a road running south from the road from Wootton Bassett to Swindon. 24 Broad Hinton was both a wealthy and a populous …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… CHISELDON The parish of Chiseldon 1 adjoins the borough of Swindon in the north and the distance from the centre of Swindon to Chiseldon village is about 5 miles. It is a long, … part of Coate Water (see below), was transferred to Swindon and a few years later 5 a. in the same region were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Hungerford road. 14 In 1835, however, a turnpike road from Swindon and Marlborough to Salisbury was completed, a new …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… PYPARD Clyffe Pypard lies about 7 miles south-west of Swindon and on the north adjoins the parish of Wootton Bassett. 1 In spite of its proximity to Swindon the parish in 1968 seemed remarkably remote and … Bassett to Chippenham in the north and the main road from Swindon to Marlborough in the south. Besides this road, which …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… bridge, was turnpiked under an Act of 1762. 17 The Swindon, Marlborough & Andover Railway, opened in 1882, ran …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… from that junction to Christian Malford, and in 1758 to Swindon. After 1727, possibly c. 1756, and certainly before …