• Source: List of places in Swindon

This is a list of areas, tourist attractions and other places of interest in the English town of Swindon and its surrounding built-up area.




Areas


Abbey Meads
Bridgemead
Broome Manor
Home to the Broome Manor Golf Course and various businesses including the world headquarters of Burmah Castrol as well as the UK headquarters of the Nationwide Building Society and Intel.
Cheney Manor
Built around 1952.
Churchward
Coleview
Covingham
Covingham Park estate was built in 1964.
Croft
Dorcan
Taking its name from the nearby Dorkerne (now Dorcan) brook, Dorcan lies between Eldene, Liden, Covingham and the A419 bypass. Parts of these surrounding areas are also sometimes referred to as being in Dorcan (such as Eldene shopping centre which uses Dorcan in its address). It is the site of the Dorcan industrial estate which includes the UK Headquarters of Tyco Electronics and RWE npower.
The Dorcan Academy (formerly Dorcan Comprehensive School) is also in this area, providing the locality with sports facilities. Notable as the school attended by Melinda Messenger, and actor Mark Lawrence (from the series Band of Brothers).
Eastleaze
Eastmead
East Wichel – part of the Wichelstowe development
Eldene
Built in the 1970s on the site of Snodshill Farm, the site of Texaco offices
Even Swindon – now more commonly known as Rodbourne
Ferndale
Freshbrook
Part of West Swindon, the estate was built in 1980–1984.
Including offices of RWE and Cable & Wireless at Windmill Hill.
Gorse Hill
Grange Park
Greenbridge
Mainly large areas of business, including the world headquarters of WHSmith and the former site of the EMI CD pressing plant
Greenmeadow
Hawksworth
Haydon Wick
Kembrey Park
Kingsdown
Lawn
Liden
Has three large tower blocks
Marshgate
Moredon
Middleleaze
New Town
Nine Elms
North Star
Including the Oasis leisure centre and Swindon College

Nythe
Oakley Park
Okus
Old Town
Park North
Estate built 1957–65; has three 10-storey tower blocks
Park South
Estate built 1957–65
Including Cavendish Square, a shopping area which has now been rebuilt into a smaller shopping area with the removal of most of the residential flats above the shops
Peatmoor
Pembroke Park
Penhill
Built 1951–55; has three 10-storey tower blocks
Pinehurst
Built 1910–20 as Swindon's first council housing estate
Railway Village
Built during the period 1840–45 by the Great Western Railway to house employees
Ramleaze
Raybrook Park
Rodbourne
Rodbourne Cheney
Rushey Platt
Shaw
South Leaze
Sparcells
South Marston
Including the UK headquarters of Zimmer
Stratton St Margaret
Upper Stratton
Lower Stratton
St Andrew's Ridge
Taw Hill
The Prinnels
Toothill
Part of West Swindon, a council estate built 1980–84
Walcot East
Built from 1956
Walcot West (Old Walcot)
Built from the mid-1930s
Westmead
Westlea
The West Swindon shopping centre, the first out of town, has a supermarket and other small shops; later the Link Centre, a leisure centre with an ice rink and swimming pool, was added
West Leaze
Windmill Hill
Woodhall
Woodhall Park




Areas under construction


Priory Vale or North Swindon Development; includes Redhouse, Oakhurst and Haydon End
Wichelstowe or Southern Development Area
New Eastern Villages




Places of interest



Coate Water Country Park
County Ground – Swindon Town F.C.'s stadium
Lawns Park
Lydiard Park
Lydiard House
The Magic Roundabout – a large roundabout containing 5 mini-roundabouts
Mouldon Hill Country Park
Museum & Art Swindon
Museum of Computing
Queens Park
Richard Jefferies Museum
Steam Railway Museum
Town Gardens
Wyvern Theatre




References

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• Universitas Oxford
• List of places in Swindon
• Swindon
• List of places in Wiltshire
• Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
• Swindon Town F.C.
• List of civil parishes in Wiltshire
• Swindon Supermarine F.C.
• List of places in Gloucestershire
• History of Swindon
• South Swindon (parish)