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High Street, SWINDON, SN5 4AE

The idea that there was a University in Purton was a long-standing joke before Purton 4th World University was set up with serious aims in 2009 by John Papworth, an ecologist and former Anglican priest. It is in fact a website exercise of which he is "Acting Chancellor", and attempts to "arouse new political thinking and more research in human-scale terms for the battle for ethnic freedom and the global crisis of war, environmental abuse, oil run-down, population numbers, citizen powerlessness and social disintegration". It also publishes "Purton Today", "an independent journal seeking to relate village affairs to the global crisis and the crisis to the village". http://www.purtonuniversity.com/#

Originally one house and later divided into two, Tudor Cottages at numbers 20 and 21 High Street are 16th or 17th century with later extensions. Liste, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1023178 Originally built round the parish church, manor and Tithe barn, the village moved and is now mostly spread out along the Bristol and Oxford coach road.

A glimpse of Hallidays, number 24 High Street, behind its Leylandii hedge. The house is dated 1794 with 19th century alterations. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1198388 Originally built round the parish church, manor and Tithe barn, the village moved and is now mostly spread out along the Bristol and Oxford coach road.

The Cedars care home is part of the Orders of St John Care Trust. Originally built round the parish church, manor and Tithe barn, the village moved and is now mostly spread out along the Bristol and Oxford coach road.

The Close, number 26 High Street, is an 18th century farmhouse now a private house. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1356023 Originally built round the parish church, manor and Tithe barn, the village moved and is now mostly spread out along the Bristol and Oxford coach road.

A small crowd waiting for the doors to open at a jumble sale at Purton Silver Threads Hall.

Purton war memorial was dedicated in December, 1920 and has the names of 55 who died in WWI and 14 who died in WWII. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1352664 Originally built round the parish church, manor and Tithe barn, the village moved and is now mostly spread out along the Bristol and Oxford coach road.

High Street in Purton.

An early 17th century grade II*(star) listed building.