Cambria Baptist Chapel, Cambria Place, Swindon
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Cambria Baptist Chapel, Cambria Place, Swindon
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 16 Sep 2008
This small area of housing, contained in an area of about 150 metres by 120 metres, was developed in the 1800s by the Great Western Railway to house workers from Wales and their families. The chapel is now used for other purposes, probably storage. A plaque on the front is dated 1866. Unlike the larger Railway Village http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/511606 Cambria Place never passed into Council ownership and isn't listed so it has become an area of private sector houses. This has meant that it has, to some extent, lost its integrity but I don't think that matters a great deal. Residents here take a pride in their properties.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.558031
Longitude
-1.793682