IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Park Lane, SWINDON, SN1 5EL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Park Lane, SN1 5EL by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (480 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Details
Distance
1
Corner of Park Lane and Dean Street, Swindon
Park Lane is on the left.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 15 Mar 2015
0.02 miles
2
Looking from Park Lane into Dean Street
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 14 Jul 2022
0.04 miles
3
Territorial Army Centre, Church Place, Swindon
This relatively modern building is situated on the site of a drill hall built in 1871. The original drill hall had an area of 8000 square feet (743 square metres). The 1871 building was itself a replacement facility for an even earlier one Image built in 1861 and then converted ten years later into a hospital.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 16 Mar 2014
0.04 miles
4
Military building on a Swindon corner
On the corner of Park Lane and Church Place. Names in view include
The Royal Yeomanry; 7 Rifles, Rifle Platoon; Wiltshire ACF (Army Cadet Force).
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 15 Mar 2015
0.04 miles
5
Rodbourne Road at Park Lane junction
There is an OS benchmark Image on the brick wall on the left hand side of the image about 1 foot near of the black lamppost
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 15 Mar 2016
0.04 miles
6
Catalpa tree in bloom in Faringdon Road Park
The park was developed by the Great Western Railway as New Swindon Park.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 14 Jul 2022
0.05 miles
7
Historic sign in New Swindon Park
At the 2022 Geograph Meet, we had a fascinating talk about what GWR did for Swindon https://www.countryfile.com/countryfile/railway-town-swindon-wiltshire/
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 14 Jul 2022
0.05 miles
8
Traffic lights at the western end of Church Place
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 14 Jul 2022
0.05 miles
9
Great Western Railway notice at the entrance to a Swindon park
At the NW entrance to the park, from Church Place. The Great Western Railway (GWR) ceased to exist on January 1st 1948 when it became part of the nationalised British Railways. Nearly 70 years later many reminders of the GWR remain in this part of Swindon. The company's former railway works buildings and Railway Village houses are nearby.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 15 Mar 2015
0.06 miles
10
Steel in the park
The Faringdon Road park has a long history in association with the advent of the railways. This feature is a recent addition unveiled in 2018 and records the sacrifices of WWI.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 14 Jul 2022
0.06 miles