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Avonmead, SWINDON, SN25 3PA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thames Avenue bungalows near the corner of Severn Avenue. These street names are the nearest most of Swindon gets to a river. The River Ray http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1716191 flows past the western edge of the town. The River Thames is several kilometres north of the northern edge of Swindon.

Service station, MoTs, repairs and used cars bought and sold. Located on Thames Avenue, next door to the Shield & Dagger.