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Swindon

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Locator map for the English administrative region of Swindon.

Unitary authority in southwest England, created in 1997 from the former district council of Thamesdown.

Area

230 sq km/89 sq mi

Towns and cities

Swindon (administrative headquarters); villages of Stanton, Fitzwarren, Highworth

Features

River Thames forms northern border of authority; Barbury Castle, Iron Age hill fort on Marlborough Downs; Great Weatern Railway Museum and National Monuments Records Centre (Swindon)

Industries

insurance, motor vehicle manufacturing, publishing, energy services, high technology industries, information technology

Population

(2001) 180,050



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Most of you have probably travelled down the Great Western Railway as far as Swindon.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be there in twenty minutes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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