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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1870s created a need for churches in the Gorse Hill and Rodbourne districts. In both areas work was first conducted … Hill, was created, and in 1908 that of St. Augustine, Rodbourne. In 1908 church work was also begun from a … responsibility for the spiritual needs of residents in the Rodbourne district, which in point of fact lay outside the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a school for boys and girls of all ages was built by the Rodbourne School Board at the junction of Hughes Street and Rodbourne Road. 131 This originally had 6 classrooms, but 2 … teachers. Jennings Street School. This school to serve the Rodbourne district was opened in 1904 with accommodation for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… more gradually from about 375 ft. to below 300 ft. near Rodbourne Cheney. Much of New Swindon is built on Kimmeridge … for most of its length. Northwards from there a lane to Rodbourne Cheney ran along the present Park Lane and Rodbourne Road. Rushey Platt at the western end of Fleetway …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… town into ditches, for in 1870 the owner of an estate in Rodbourne Cheney complained of the pollution of the River Ray … The board immediately decided to buy a farm of 108 a. in Rodbourne Cheney for 7,750 and laid it out as a sewage farm, … may be mentioned the provision of allotments, begun on the Rodbourne sewage farm in 1887, and of open spaces. The first …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Until 1943 its library, which that year had branches at Rodbourne and Gorse Hill, and held over 30,000 books, was the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… persons in Cricklade and Wootten Bassett Union Workhouse. Rodbourne Cheney. Included 125 labourers employed on the Gt. … racehorses. Purton. See comment for Lydiard Millicent. Rodbourne Cheney. Increase attributed to the immigration of … parish church, and of 50 persons attending a fair. 1881 Rodbourne Cheney and Stratton St. Margaret. Increase of …