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Holne Road, SWINDON, SN1 7AU

There is a diverse range of styles in this part of the large Wichelstowe development. These properties have a distinctly Georgian feel to them. More on Wichelstowe here courtesy of the developers http://www.wichelstowe.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=1

A modern residential development in East Wichel. The road crossing Rylane is Holne Road.

This a view west of the same road as is seen here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1872836 There is a link in that one to the Wichelstowe website.

Builders' compounds are rarely glamorous but they are functional. Here, various aggregates and blocks share space with items of plant. The bridge in the background will one day carry a footpath over the M4. More on the Wichelstowe development here http://www.wichelstowe.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=1

Although only about 150 homes are now occupied, a bus service is already in place. East Wichel is the first phase of the large Wichelstowe development. More here http://www.wichelstowe.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=1

I haven't been here for about a year. In that period development has taken place. New houses stand on what was once farmland. In the foreground a highly customised Ford Focus estate car can be seen. It is an '08' model.

The centre of a new urban village on the southern edge of Swindon.

This affords a closer view of the 2008-registered Ford Focus estate car seen in this image http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1870672 It isn't a top of the range model having steel wheels as opposed to the magnesium alloys that would grace one of the top-line models. Even more lowly versions are quite highly specified though and I wouldn't mind owning one. They're a lot better than those awful Morris Minors folk get excited about. I had one once and what a bucket of bolts that was. The brakes didn't report for duty half the time and changing gear was like stirring a box of marbles with a garden spade. My misery was brought to an end when the chap at the MoT station failed it by telling me that the rust was so bad that if I went over a hump-backed bridge in it it would come down in three bits.

The footpath leads to Rylane, which is the road directly ahead. A view with this bridge in the distance can be seen here:- Image The houses in the foreground are adjacent to Mattocks Path.

This is roughly in the centre of the East Wichel phase of the large Wichelstowe development. The high ground in the distance contains the trackbed of the old Midland and South Western Junction Railway (M&SWJR). More about Wichelstowe here http://www.wichelstowe.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=1