IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Thornhill Drive, SWINDON, SN25 4GG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Thornhill Drive, SN25 4GG by members of the Geograph project.
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Notes
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Image Listing (10 Images Found)
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A view south-west from St Andrew's Ridge, Swindon
The area north of the established areas of Penhill and Haydon Wick and south of the village of Blunsdon is known generically as the Northern Expansion Area. It has been under development for several years from the early 1990s. Within the NEA are individual sub-areas with names such as St Andrew's Ridge, Redhouse and Priory Vale. I suspect they are mostly marketing-inspired though with a nod to existing names and features. Sadly, I can't remember many of them. In this view we can see the open space between St Andrew's Ridge behind the viewpoint and, I think, Redhouse, outside this square. The marker at the right indicates the presence of a bridleway.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 16 Feb 2008
0.06 miles
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Thornhill Drive, St Andrew's Ridge, Swindon
This is a typical view within the Northern Expansion Area of Swindon, a development started in the 1990s to cater for housing demand from the local area and beyond. The development is continuing and will be for some time to come. Housing and estate design has improved in recent years, in my opinion at least.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 16 Feb 2008
0.11 miles
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Thanks to the Romans
As the notice explains, developers starting work here unearthed the course of a Roman road, which led to this area being preserved as a park.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 30 Jan 2023
0.14 miles
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Mobile homes park, Blunsdon Abbey
An isolated rural community, until quite recently - now surrounded on all sides by the onward march of Swindon's northern expansion.
Image: © Roger Cornfoot
Taken: 15 Jan 2007
0.17 miles
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Pennine Way, St Andrew's Ridge, Swindon
Pennine Way meanders through the St Andrew's Ridge part of the Northern Expansion Area with smaller roads leading from it. It is all very artfully laid out with a minimum of straight lines. Here we can see a modern terrace of houses deliberately designed to have different roof heights.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 16 Feb 2008
0.19 miles
