IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Moormead Road, SWINDON, SN4 9BY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Moormead Road, SN4 9BY by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (16 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Wroughton allotments
Ready for spring planting.
Image: © Eirian Evans
Taken: 16 Feb 2011
0.09 miles
4
Moormead Road in Wroughton
Looking towards Swindon Road.
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 9 Feb 2014
0.11 miles
5
Wroughton Telephone Exchange
Situated in Moormead Road, this building dates from the 1970s having replaced the former TE to the right of the photo, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6577834 refers. It has the code SSWGN and provides telephone and broadband services to 3,283 residential and 137 non-residential premises in Wroughton plus Overtown nearby. A BT vehicle can be seen parked by the side of the TE. The numbering ranges of this TE are (01793) 81xxxx, 845xxx, the (01793) referring to the Swindon group of fourteen TEs, and its postcode is SN4 9BU.
Image: © David Hillas
Taken: 16 Aug 2019
0.12 miles
6
Former Telephone Exchange, Wroughton
Located at 27a Moormead Road SN4 9BU, this redbrick building used to serve as the telephone exchange for Wroughton until the 1970s. It has now been converted into offices. The present TE is the grey building to the left of the offices, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6577844 refers.
Image: © David Hillas
Taken: 16 Aug 2019
0.13 miles
10
The Three Tuns, Devizes Road, Wroughton
Yet another pub closure is recorded here. The pub is owned by Arkell's brewery Image The erstwhile landlords took over the pub as recently as December 2009. No explanation has been given for their departure and the future of the pub is uncertain. According to a director:
“It is with regret that we have had to close the Three Tuns at Wroughton following the departure of the landlords. “As we do not have a landlord in a position to take over the pub we have boarded it up and have yet to make a firm decision about its future. It is possible that it will not be open again in the short term.” (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk)
The brewery bought the pub as far back as 1889 when it was already a substantial property, with "brewhouse, stables, coach house, shed, piggeries, other out-buildings, yard, garden, half an acre of orchards and meadow land, known as Home Close". Local legend has it that a local, one Dickie Tarrant, would take his horse into the pub with him. The restricted size inside meant the horse had to leave the bar backwards. (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk who probably got it from the Arkells website)
Commenting on the closure a local parish councillor has been quoted as saying:
“I don’t think people will be too sad about it. We’ve got plenty of pubs in the village.” (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk)
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 6 Sep 2010
0.17 miles