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Poachers Way in North Swindon
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 5 Oct 2014
0.04 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
0.05 miles
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Conflicting styles at Blunsdon St Andrew
Typical of the mis-matches produced in the rapid expansion of Swindon in recent times. A 'city-style' apartment block overlooks a 'lego-style' primary school.
Image: © Roger Cornfoot
Taken: 15 Jan 2007
0.09 miles
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Hampstead Way in North Swindon
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 5 Oct 2014
0.11 miles
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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
0.11 miles
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Houses on Groundwell Ridge
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 5 Oct 2014
0.13 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
0.14 miles
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Blunsdon Abbey, Blunsdon St. Andrew
Blunsdon Abbey was a Victorian mansion which was destroyed by fire in 1904. The ruins dominate the Blunsdon Abbey Park caravan site, which offers static homes and storage for mobile homes.
Image: © Vieve Forward
Taken: 30 Dec 2012
0.19 miles
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St Andrew's churchyard, Blunsdon St Andrew
Viewed facing east, the south elevation of the church can be seen at the left. Beyond that is what was once an abbey, still known as Blunsdon Abbey, which is now a residential property having had a rather modern-looking extension added.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 23 Mar 2008
0.20 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
0.20 miles