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Breton Close, SWINDON, SN5 5EB

Housing estate near Elborough Bridge has been expanded south towards the railway line on the outskirts of Swindon. View from westbound train, looking towards Mustang Way.

The Purton Road bridge over the Wilts & Berks Canal (North Wilts Branch) was built in 2001 by the developers of the adjacent housing development, under a contract from Swindon Borough Council. The tunnel on the left takes the Canal, while that on the right the combined towpath and cycle track. The division down the centre permits the towpath to be at a lower level than the Canal, to give greater headroom to cyclists. http://www.wbct.org.uk/information/walks/897-swindon-north-wilts-canal-moredon-and-mouldon-hill http://www.smithswbc.org.uk/ The North Wilts branch formerly connected the main Wilts & Berks Canal with the Thames and Severn Canal, and ran between Swindon and Latton.

The Purton Road bridge over the Wilts & Berks Canal (North Wilts Branch) was built in 2001 by the developers of the adjacent housing development, under a contract from Swindon Borough Council. The tunnel on the right takes the Canal, while that on the left the combined towpath and cycle track. The division down the centre permits the towpath to be at a lower level than the canal, to give greater headroom to cyclists. It shows the commitment of the Council to possible future restoration, since the canal is not in water south of this point. http://www.wbct.org.uk/information/walks/897-swindon-north-wilts-canal-moredon-and-mouldon-hill http://www.smithswbc.org.uk/ The North Wilts branch formerly connected the main Wilts & Berks Canal with the Thames and Severn Canal, and ran between Swindon and Latton.

Pembroke Park was developed in the 1980s on the site of a municipal power station that was closed and demolished in the 1970s. The development pre-dates, and is south of, the large Northern Development Area known generically as Abbey Meads.

To the left is the electricity sub-station. To the right, barely visible beneath the weeds is the brickwork of all that remains of the top one of the flight of three Moredon Locks on the disused North Wilts branch of the Wilts & Berks Canal (the lowest being Mouldon Lock). The North Wilts branch formerly connected the main Wilts & Berks Canal with the Thames and Severn Canal, and ran between Swindon and Latton. The canal bed would have run from where the photographer is standing directly ahead in line with the fence of the power station.

The dark colour of the infill in the bed of the disused North Wilts branch of the Wilts & Berks Canal here is because it was considered to be an ideal location to dispose of thousands of tons of ash from the Moredon electricity power station that stood adjacent to the canal a little further north from 1929 to 1979. http://www.wbct.org.uk/information/walks/897-swindon-north-wilts-canal-moredon-and-mouldon-hill The North Wilts branch formerly connected the main Wilts & Berks Canal with the Thames and Severn Canal, and ran between Swindon and Latton.

This brickwork is almost all that remains of the top one of the flight of three Moredon Locks on the disused North Wilts branch of the Wilts & Berks Canal (the lowest being Mouldon Lock). The North Wilts branch formerly connected the main Wilts & Berks Canal with the Thames and Severn Canal, and ran between Swindon and Latton. The brickwork is at the location of the top gate and paddles. http://www.wbct.org.uk/information/walks/897-swindon-north-wilts-canal-moredon-and-mouldon-hill