Kent Road
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Kent Road by Gordon Hatton as part of the Geograph project.
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Kent Road
Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 23 May 2017
An area of red brick terraced housing towards the western end of the 'old town' hill and developed circa 1890-1910. The photo shows two typical styles of Swindon housing, the type with the small ground floor bay window, which is very common throughout the town and the superior style with two bay windows under a gable front. The Kent Road area was developed by John Henry Harding Sheppard, a brewer, who owned land near the railway station [note streets in that area named after him]. Following his retirement to Kent, he developed a greenfield site here and named all the streets after Kentish locations.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.553344
Longitude
-1.78678