IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Downs View Road, SWINDON, SN3 1NT
Introduction
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Image Listing (31 Images Found)
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Downs View Road, Swindon
Looking south from the corner of Marlborough Road.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 14 Apr 2013
0.05 miles
3
Downs View Road, Swindon
The road is a cul-de-sac. For such a configuration it is unusually wide. I have heard it said that, when the road was planned, the intention was to take it to the south-west, over the railway that then existed and Broome Manor Lane thus forming a relief road round Old Town. Unfortunately for the planners, someone neglected to obtain the necessary permissions or wayleaves from the landowner and the scheme came to nothing. A further legacy is a wide area of green space, the edge of which is visible in the foreground, between the houses on either side, which were built in the 1930s. The bus in the background is in Marlborough Road on its way into Old Town, Swindon.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 30 Oct 2007
0.10 miles
4
Benchmark on #252 Marlborough Road
Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm66427
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 22 Apr 2015
0.10 miles
5
Lawn district boundary sign, Swindon
Located alongside Marlborough Road opposite the Downs View Road junction.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 14 Apr 2013
0.11 miles
6
#252 Marlborough Road
There is an OS benchmark Image on the right hand side of the house
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 22 Apr 2015
0.11 miles
7
New Housing, Nevinson Road
A recent development in behind older housing along Broome Manor Lane.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 10 Oct 2022
0.11 miles
8
Marlborough Road surgery, Swindon
There is a small sign showing SURGERY on the bungalow on the left.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 14 Apr 2013
0.11 miles
9
Broome Manor Lane, Swindon
The NW end of Broome Manor Lane, viewed from the edge of the Marlborough Road junction.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 14 Apr 2013
0.12 miles
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210 Marlborough Road, Swindon
On the face of it, the semi-detached house in the centre of the image is just another example of archetypal English 'between the wars' suburbia. However, it is distinguished from its neighbours by being the house in which the actress and film star Diana Dors spent the first fourteen years of her life. A brief biography of Ms Dors can be found here http://www.swindonweb.com/index.asp?m=8&s=9&ss=220&t=Diana+Dors
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 2 Feb 2008
0.12 miles