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A History of the County of Berkshire
… about 280 ft. and is a mile from Uffington Junction on the Swindon branch of the Great Western railway. 4 It is a large …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Salisbury and Amesbury, Devizes, and Marlborough and Swindon remained in the mid 20th century when it was the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WANBOROUGH The parish of Wanborough, 3 miles east of Swindon, is roughly rectangular in shape, some 5 miles long … Farms, was beginning to be developed by the corporation of Swindon as part of its expansion programme. 6 Geographically … 18 The road running west from Little Hinton towards Swindon, passing through Upper Wanborough, follows for part …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in Westport or Brokenborough. In 18812 a house beside the Swindon road in Malmesbury parish was built for the vicar of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in the 18th century, the only road leading west from the Swindon-Avebury road ran through the village to Clyffe Pypard. East of the Swindon-Avebury road Lambourn way and Marlborough way led … very rapidly to 291 by 1821. As men left to work in the Swindon railway yards and farm labourers were replaced by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the head stream. It was turnpiked in 1767 as part of the Swindon-Devizes road. 10 A parallel track 750 m. east of the … village stands near the centre of the parish west of the Swindon-Devizes road, straddling the head stream. The … to recross the stream and, as Hannah's Lane, rejoin the Swindon-Devizes road. North of the church and west of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… largely based on a survey by K. A. Rodwell (1991): N.M.R. (Swindon), bldg. file 37480, and on dendrochronological …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Bassett lies about 5 miles south-west of the centre of Swindon. The parish is roughly triangular in shape and covers … 86 s. 8 d., the next highest contribution to that of Swindon in the hundred of Kingsbridge. 28 In 1377 there were 207 poll-tax payers in the parish and only Swindon in the same hundred had more. 29 To the Benevolence …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wroughton, covering 2,813 ha. (6,950 a.), bounds upon Swindon to the north. 1 As a result of Swindon's boundary extensions Wroughton lost 148 a. (60 ha.) … it. 3 A more or less straight road formerly running from Swindon up to Smeathe's ridge and Barbury down makes the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a Goddard and a Long in only three. The Goddards were a Swindon family which had been settled in Wiltshire since the reign of Henry VIII and had bought land at Swindon, formerly the property of Lacock Abbey, after the … if Hyde were unable to stand, and Richard Goddard of Swindon was decided upon. Although Hyde did stand, and was …