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Penhill Drive, SWINDON, SN2 5BW

Penhill is a local authority housing estate developed in the early to mid 1950s. Swindon Borough Council took advantage of the Town Development Act 1952 to expand at a rapid rate in the post-war years. Inglesham Road is on the southern edge of Penhill.

The church in now 50 years old; construction having started in 1955 it was opened on St Peter's Day (29 June) 1956.

St. Peter's was designed by the architect, Oswald Breakspeare. Although the church is only 50 years old, the church bell dates from 1738.

Penhill is a local authority housing estate developed in the early to mid 1950s. Swindon Borough Council took advantage of the Town Development Act 1952 to expand at a rapid rate in the post-war years. Stockton Road heads up a slope from Inglesham Road in the southern part of the estate.

Off Hillary Close.

Penhill was the one of the first major post-war council housing estates in Swindon. The smaller estate of Moredon may have pre-dated it. Following Penhill, in the north of the town, the estates of Walcot, Park South and Park North, to the south, began in the mid 1950s. In terms of housing style the estates are indistinguishable, with various examples of system building types. In this view we are looking towards the southern edge of the square, marked by the position of the car on the left. The houses beyond are in Penhill Drive, the main road through the estate.

A pool of rainwater has formed at the bottom end of the recreation ground after several weeks of wet weather.

Large pub on the corner of Whitworth Road and Cricklade Road. It was built by Arkells in 1931. A later extension was the addition of a function room for up to 300 people. According to the local legend of the Moonrakers, two Wiltshire men were caught while trying to smuggle a barrel of brandy hidden in a pond. They fooled the excisemen by pretending they were simple-minded men trying to rake the moon’s reflection from the pond.