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Boscombe Road, SWINDON, SN25 3HA

This view is in the heart of Moredon, a municipal housing estate built in the 1950s. Cheddar Road leads away from the viewpoint to its junction with Barton Road on the left. The houses on the left are of the 'Cornish' design, one of several non-traditional building systems developed in the immediate post-war years to enable as many houses as possible to be built by local authorities in the shortest time. The design principles typically involved the use of reinforced concrete and the generic term 'PRC' for pre-cast reinforced concrete was coined to describe system-built housing. Unfortunately, the use of this material led to structural problems developing in the life of the properties and they had to be comprehensively rebuilt to enable their continued existence. The bungalows on the right are of more traditional design and construction and were built to accommodated retired people.

Moredon is a municipal housing estate developed in the 1950s. Coombe Road, leading away from the viewpoint, contains terraced houses typical of many thousands built at the same time up and down the country by local authorities.

Fernham Road is another road in the post-war Council estate of Moredon. Leaving it to the right is the entrance to Chilton Gardens, a sheltered housing scheme for elderly residents.

This part of Abbey View Road is on the eastern edge of Moredon, a municipal housing estate dating from the 1950s. The road is so named because it may once have been possible to see Blunsdon Abbey, a few kilometres to the north. The older houses in the background are in Church Walk North, in the Cheney Manor area of Swindon. These are private houses.

Modern building located at the eastern end of High Street. The church history can be traced back to 1849 (via many alterations), when a congregational chapel was built here. At that time, Haydon Wick was a hamlet to the north of Swindon.

The entrance to the school (and to Barn Own Pre-school) is from a road named The Brow. There is another entrance on the High Street side of the school.

Located on a road named The Brow, next to an entrance http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2306696 to Haydon Wick Primary School. Sea scouting traces its origins back to 1909. Its early development paralleled that of the land-based scouting movement. The majority of sea scout centres are in coastal areas, or near the Thames in London. However, there are groups in most inland counties, such as here in Wiltshire.