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Aldbourne
Coordinates: 51°28′N 1°37′W / 51.47°N 1.62°W / 51.47; -01.62
Aldbourne is a village and civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. It is in a valley in the south slope of the Lambourn Downs, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. From here an unnamed winterbourne flows and joins the River Kennet 4 miles (6.4 km) south near the village of Ramsbury.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Michael overlooking the village green is medieval and a Grade I listed building. The nave and aisles were built around 1200, although some earlier Norman arches and other traces remain. There are four arches on the north arcade and three on the south. The chancel is Early English, with north and south chapels, and a sanctuary with lancet windows.
The Perpendicular Gothic three-stage tower was added in 1460. It is ashlar, has angled buttresses and transomed three-light bell openings, with gargoyles above. There are also transepts with three-light windows, a tall south porch – originally two-storey – and a bay between the porch and south transept. There was also formerly a north porch. The external walls are of flint and limestone with some chequer work and sarsen, and are crenellated. The roofs are lead and slate. The interior contains a number of monuments and monumental brasses.
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Amesbury
Coordinates: 51°10′00″N 1°47′00″W / 51.1667°N 1.7833°W / 51.1667; -1.7833
Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is most famous for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the Amesbury Archer—dubbed the King of Stonehenge in the press—in 2002. It has a population of 8,907.
Eleanor of Provence, queen of England, died in Amesbury on 24/25 June 1291, and was buried in Amesbury Abbey.
Amesbury is located in southern Wiltshire, eight miles north of Salisbury. It sits in the River Avon valley on the southern fringes of Salisbury Plain and has historically been considered an important river crossing area on the road from London to Warminster and Exeter. This has continued into the present with the building of the A303 across the Avon next to the town. Originally the town developed around the water meadows next to several bends in the river, but in time has spread onto the valley hillsides and absorbed part of the military airfield at Boscombe Down.
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Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. Unique amongst megalithic monuments, Avebury contains the largest stone circle in Europe, and is one of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary Pagans.
Constructed around 2600 BCE, during the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age', the monument comprises a large henge that is, a bank and a ditch. Inside this henge is a large outer stone circle, with two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument was a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman occupation. During the Early Mediaeval, a village first began to be built around the monument, which eventually extended into it. In the Late Mediaeval and Early Modern periods, locals destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley however took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project of reconstructing much of the monument.
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Bath, Somerset
Coordinates: 51°23′N 2°22′W / 51.38°N 2.36°W / 51.38; -2.36
Bath (
/ˈbɑːθ/ or /ˈbæθ/) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset in the south west of England. It is situated 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 13 miles (21 km) south-east of Bristol. The population of the city is 83,992. It was granted city status by Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590, and was made a county borough in 1889 which gave it administrative independence from its county, Somerset. The city became part of Avon when that county was created in 1974. Since 1996, when Avon was abolished, Bath has been the principal centre of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES).
The city was first established as a spa with the Latin name, Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") by the Romans in AD 43, although verbal tradition suggests that Bath was known before then. They built baths and a temple on the surrounding hills of Bath in the valley of the River Avon around hot springs.Edgar was crowned king of England at Bath Abbey in 973. Much later, it became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, which led to a major expansion that left a heritage of exemplary Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone.
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Birmingham
Birmingham (
i/ˈbɜrmɪŋəm/ BUR-ming-əm, locally /ˈbɜrmɪŋɡəm/ BUR-ming-gəm) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 (2010 estimate), and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a population of 2,284,093 (2001 census). Birmingham's metropolitan area is also the United Kingdom's second most populous with a population of 3,683,000.
A medium-sized market town during the medieval period, Birmingham grew to international prominence in the 18th century at the heart of the Midlands Enlightenment and subsequent Industrial Revolution, which saw the town at the forefront of worldwide developments in science, technology and economic organisation, producing a series of innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial society. By 1791 it was being hailed as "the first manufacturing town in the world". Birmingham's distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly-skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided a diverse and resilient economic base for industrial prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century. Its resulting high level of social mobility also fostered a culture of broad-based political radicalism, that under leaders from Thomas Attwood to Joseph Chamberlain was to give it a political influence unparalleled in Britain outside London and a pivotal role in the development of British democracy.
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Blunsdon
Coordinates: 51°37′N 1°47′W / 51.61°N 1.79°W / 51.61; -1.79
Broad Blunsdon is a village in the Borough of Swindon, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Swindon itself.
Together with the nearby villages of Blunsdon St Andrew and adjoining Lower Blunsdon, the settlement is usually known simply as Blunsdon. The A419 dual carriageway divides Blunsdon into Blunsdon St Andrew to the west and Broad Blunsdon to the east.
During the 2001 census 2250 dwellings were registered in the civil parish of Blunsdon St Andrew, though not all of these dwellings exist in the village of Blunsdon as the parish also includes the nearby developments of St Andrews Ridge, Ash Brake, Oakhurst, Redhouse and Groundwell West which part of the town of Swindon.
The village of Blunsdon St Andrew includes the ruins of Blunsdon Abbey, the Victorian mansion which was destroyed by fire in 1904. Although the property was insured, the death of Louisa Thomas, the mansion's owner, later that year, put an end to hopes of rebuilding. Among the items destroyed was a unique collection of Welsh Manuscripts assembled by Rachel Thomas, mother of David Alfred Thomas, later Viscount Rhondda It has now been converted into a caravan park. The nearby large-scale development on the edge of Swindon was named Abbey Meads after Blunsdon Abbey. In addition, a former manor house and listed building stood nearby, known as The Grange. This has recently been converted into apartments.
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Blunsdon St Andrew
Coordinates: 51°37′N 1°47′W / 51.61°N 1.79°W / 51.61; -1.79
Broad Blunsdon is a village in the Borough of Swindon, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Swindon itself.
Together with the nearby villages of Blunsdon St Andrew and adjoining Lower Blunsdon, the settlement is usually known simply as Blunsdon. The A419 dual carriageway divides Blunsdon into Blunsdon St Andrew to the west and Broad Blunsdon to the east.
During the 2001 census 2250 dwellings were registered in the civil parish of Blunsdon St Andrew, though not all of these dwellings exist in the village of Blunsdon as the parish also includes the nearby developments of St Andrews Ridge, Ash Brake, Oakhurst, Redhouse and Groundwell West which part of the town of Swindon.
The village of Blunsdon St Andrew includes the ruins of Blunsdon Abbey, the Victorian mansion which was destroyed by fire in 1904. Although the property was insured, the death of Louisa Thomas, the mansion's owner, later that year, put an end to hopes of rebuilding. Among the items destroyed was a unique collection of Welsh Manuscripts assembled by Rachel Thomas, mother of David Alfred Thomas, later Viscount Rhondda It has now been converted into a caravan park. The nearby large-scale development on the edge of Swindon was named Abbey Meads after Blunsdon Abbey. In addition, a former manor house and listed building stood nearby, known as The Grange. This has recently been converted into apartments.
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Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library ( /ˈbɒdliən/ or /bɒdˈliːən/), the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library. Known to Oxford scholars as "Bodley" or simply "the Bod", under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 it is one of six legal deposit libraries for works published in the United Kingdom and under Irish Law it is entitled to request a copy of each book published in the Republic of Ireland. Though University members may borrow some books from dependent libraries (such as the Radcliffe Science Library), the Bodleian operates principally as a reference library and in general documents may not be removed from the reading rooms.
The Library occupies a group of five buildings near Broad Street: these range in date from the late medieval Duke Humfrey's Library to the New Bodleian of the 1930s. Since the 19th century a number of underground stores have been built below parts of these.
Today, the Bodleian also includes several off-site storage areas as well as many other libraries in central Oxford:
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Bradford on Avon
Coordinates: 51°20′49″N 2°15′04″W / 51.3469°N 2.2510°W / 51.3469; -2.2510
Bradford on Avon (sometimes Bradford-on-Avon) is a town in west Wiltshire, England with a population of about 9,326. The town's canal, historic buildings, shops, pubs and restaurants make it popular with tourists.
The history of the town can be traced back to Roman origins. It has several buildings dating to the 17th century, when the town grew due to the thriving English woollen textile industry.
The town lies partly on the Avon Valley, and partly on the hill that marks the Vale's western edge, eight miles southeast of Bath, in the hilly countryside between the Mendip Hills, Salisbury Plain and the Cotswold Hills. The local area around Bath provides the Jurassic limestone (Bath Stone) from which the older buildings are constructed. The River Avon (the Bristol Avon) runs through the town.
The earliest evidence of habitation is fragments of Roman settlements above the town. In particular, archaeological digs have revealed the remains of a large Roman villa with a well-preserved mosaic on the playing fields of St Laurence School. The centre of the town grew up around the ford across the river Avon, hence the origin of the town's name ("Broad-Ford"). This was supplemented in Norman times by the stone bridge that still stands today. The Norman side is upstream, and has pointed arches; the newer side has curved arches. The Town Bridge and Chapel is a grade I listed building. It was originally a packhorse bridge, but widened in the 17th century by rebuilding the western side. On 2 July 1643 the town was the site of a skirmish in the English Civil War, between Royalists who seized control of the bridge on their way to the Battle of Lansdowne.
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Bristol
Bristoli/ˈbrɪstəl/ is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007. It is England's sixth and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, one of the group of English Core Cities and the most populous city in South West England.
Historically within Gloucestershire, the city received a Royal Charter in 1155 and was granted County status in 1373. From the 13th century, for half a millennium, it ranked amongst the top three English cities after London, alongside York and Norwich, on the basis of tax receipts, until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester during the Industrial Revolution in the latter part of the 18th century. It borders the counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire, and is also located near the historic cities of Bath to the south east and Gloucester to the north. The city is built around the River Avon, and it also has a short coastline on the Severn Estuary, which flows into the Bristol Channel.
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Calne
Coordinates: 51°26′07″N 2°00′15″W / 51.4353°N 2.00427°W / 51.4353; -2.00427
Calne ( /ˈkəln/) is a town in Wiltshire, southwestern England. It is situated at the northwestern extremity of the North Wessex Downs hill range, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The town lies on the River Marden, the Wilts & Berks Canal and the A4 road 19 miles (31 km) east of Bath (the closest city), 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Chippenham and 13 miles (21 km) west of Marlborough. Wiltshire's county town of Trowbridge is 15 miles (24 km) to the southwest, with London some 91 miles (146 km) to the east. According to the 2001 Census, Calne's population numbered 13,606 inhabitants.
In AD 978 Anglo Saxon Calne was the site of a two-storey building with a hall on the first floor. It was here that St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury met the Witenagemot in order to justify his controversial Church reforms, which involved the secular priests being replaced by Benedictine monks and the influence of landowners over churches on their lands being taken away. According to legend, at one point Dunstan called upon God to support his cause, at which point the floor collapsed killing most of his opponents, whilst Dunstan and his supporters were in the part that remained standing. This was claimed as a miracle by Dunstan's supporters.
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Castle Eaton
Coordinates: 51°39′00″N 1°46′59″W / 51.650°N 1.783°W / 51.650; -1.783
Castle Eaton is a village and civil parish on the River Thames about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Highworth. It is historically in Wiltshire but since 1997 has been part of Swindon unitary authority. The Thames at Castle Eaton forms both the northern boundary of the parish and the county boundary with Gloucestershire.
The village is characterised by its older buildings most of which are in The Street, the original main thoroughfare. Built of local stone, these buildings give Castle Eaton the look and feel of a traditional Cotswold village. Many of the buildings date from about 1650 to 1850, and Swindon Council has made this part of the village a Conservation Area to protect its historical and architectural importance.
The parish church dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed building. It has two Norman doorways. The chancel was built late in the 13th century in the Early English Gothic style, and at its east end has a trio of stepped lancet windows. The building was restored by William Butterfield in 1861-63, who added a distinctive corbelled bellcote on the roof above the chancel arch. The west tower has a ring of six bells.
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Chippenham
Coordinates: 51°27′31″N 2°06′57″W / 51.4585°N 2.1158°W / 51.4585; -2.1158
Chippenham is a market town in Wiltshire, England, located 21 km (13 mi) east of Bath and 163 km (101 mi) west of London. In the 2001 census the population of the town was recorded as 28,065, however, Council projections for 2009 estimate the population at 42,060.
The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon and is believed to have existed as some form of settlement since before Roman times. It was a royal vill, and probably a royal hunting lodge, under Alfred the Great. Kings lodge school, a primary school in Chippenham was named after King Alfred's Hunting lodge. The town continued to grow when the Great Western Railway arrived in 1841, and while historically a market town the economy has changed to that of a commuter town.
Chippenham is twinned with La Flèche in France and Friedberg in Germany. The town motto is "Unity and Loyalty".
Chippenham is set on a prominent crossing of the River Avon and lies between the Marlborough Downs to the east, the Cotswolds to the north and west and Salisbury Plain to the south.
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Chiseldon
Coordinates: 51°30′51″N 1°44′05″W / 51.514125°N 1.734796°W / 51.514125; -1.734796
Chiseldon is a village in the borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
The village lies on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, a mile south of junction 15 of the M4 motorway, on the A346 between Swindon and Marlborough. The hamlets of Draycot Foliat, Hodson, Badbury and Liddington are nearby, and the village of Wroughton is around two miles to the west.
The village houses a school - Chiseldon Primary School which currently has some 158 pupils enrolled, most of them from the village itself. The Holy Cross Church is also located in Chiseldon. The Church, was built in the thirteenth century along with other local churches in Ogbourne St. George and Ogbourne St. Andrew. The village has a surgery, as well as two Hotels, an Esso Petrol Station, two shops (one housing a Post office) and various other businesses. The engineering consultancy firm Halcrow Group Limited, soon to be CH2MHill, operates from Burderop Park, located in the parish.
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Churchfields School
Coordinates: 51°33′15″N 1°45′45″W / 51.55421°N 1.76241°W / 51.55421; -1.76241
Churchfields Academy, known as Churchfields School before September 2011, is a secondary school with Academy status located in Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
Churchfields School was founded in 1964. It's a comprehensive school for pupils aged 11 to 16. There are approximately 987 pupils on roll. It has been awarded the title: Science College, Mathematics and Computing College College.
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Coate Water
Coate Water (grid reference SU188820) is a country park situated 5 km (3.1 mi) to the southeast of central Swindon, near Junction 15 of the M4. It takes its name from the main feature, a reservoir originally built to provide water for the Wilts and Berks Canal.
Coate is the site of a 70-acre (280,000 m2) lake, built in 1822 and formed by diverting the River Cole. Its primary purpose was to provide water for the Canals and it remained outside the borough until expansion in 1928. In 1914, with the canal abandoned, Coate became a Pleasure Park. Changing rooms and a wooden diving board were added, the board since replaced with today's 33 ft (10 m) concrete one in 1935. Now named officially named Coate Water Country Park, it is both a leisure facility and a nature reserve. Coate Farm, with the Richard Jefferies museum, is contained within its environs. Coate Water was the original for the "New Sea," the lake that forms the centrepiece of the fictional adventures of Bevis and Mark in Richard Jefferies "Bevis"
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Corsham
Coordinates: 51°26′N 2°11′W / 51.43°N 2.19°W / 51.43; -2.19
Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the southwestern edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national route, which was formerly the main turnpike road from London to Bristol, between Bath (7.5 miles / 12 kilometres) and Chippenham (4.5 miles / 7 kilometres).
Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture and later the wool industry, and remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains several notable historic buildings, such as the stately home of Corsham Court. In World War II and the Cold War, it became a major administrative and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with numerous establishments both above ground and in the old quarry tunnels. The early 21st century saw some growth in Corsham's role in the film industry.
Corsham apparently derives its name from Cosa's hām, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or village. The town is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have entered the name later under Norman influence (possibly caused by the recording of local pronunciation.), when the town is reported to have been in the possession of the Earl of Cornwall. Corsham is recorded as Coseham in 1001, as Cosseha in 1086, and at Cosham as late as 1611 (on John Speed's map of Wiltshire). The Corsham area belonged to the King in Saxon times, the area at the time also had a large forest which was cleared to make way for further expansion.
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Cricklade
Coordinates: 51°38′24″N 1°56′42″W / 51.640°N 1.945°W / 51.640; -1.945
Cricklade is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in north Wiltshire in England, midway between Swindon and Cirencester.
On 25 September 2011 Cricklade was awarded The Royal Horticultural Society's 'Champion of Champions' award in the Britain in Bloom competition.
Cricklade is twinned with Sucé-sur-Erdre in France. Cricklade's Latin motto is In Loco Delicioso, which means "in a pleasant place".
The 2001 census recorded Cricklade's population as 4,132.
There is a large clock, called the Jubilee clock, which was erected in 1898 in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee the preceding year. It stands outside The Vale Hotel in the High Street, where the Town Cross once stood. There are two replicas of the cross in Cricklade; one is in the churchyard of St Sampson's, the other at St Mary's, and there is local rivalry as to which one is now believed to be the original.
Cricklade was founded in the 9th century by the Anglo Saxons, who chose it for the fact that it is where the Roman road Ermin Street crosses the River Thames. It was the home of a Saxon royal mint.
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Devizes
Coordinates: 51°21′11″N 1°59′38″W / 51.353°N 1.994°W / 51.353; -1.994
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Chippenham and about 11 miles (18 km) east of Trowbridge.
Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week. It has nearly five hundred listed buildings, a large open Green at the heart of the town, some notable churches and a Town Hall. Its development has grown around the 11th century Norman castle.
Devizes Castle was built by Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury in 1080, but the town is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. Because the castle was located on the boundaries of the manors of Rowde, Bishops Cannings and Potterne it became known as the castrum ad divisas or "the castle at the boundaries", hence the name Devizes. On John Speed's map of Wiltshire (1611), the town's name is recorded as The Devyses. The first castle on the site was of the motte and bailey form and was probably constructed from wood and earth, but this burnt down in 1113. A new castle was built in stone by Roger of Salisbury, Osmund's successor. Devizes received its first charter in 1141 permitting regular markets. The castle changed hands several times during the civil war between Stephen of Blois and Matilda in the 12th century. The castle held important prisoners, including Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror in 1106. Robert was kept in Devizes for twenty years, before being moved to Cardiff Castle.
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England
Englandi/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.
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Florida
Florida (i/ˈflɒrɪdə/) is a state in the southeastern United States, bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Florida is the 22nd most extensive, the 4th most populous, and the 8th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state capital is Tallahassee, its largest city is Jacksonville, and the South Florida metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the southeastern U.S.
Much of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Its geography is marked by a coastline, by the omnipresence of water and the threat of hurricanes. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, encompassing approximately 1,350 miles (2,170 km), and is the only state to border both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the state is at or near sea level and its terrain is characterized by sedimentary soils. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south. Its symbolic animals like the American alligator, Florida panther and the manatee, can be found in the Everglades, one of the most famous national parks in the world.
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Germany
Germany (i/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] (
listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.
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Guildford
Coordinates: 51°14′12″N 0°34′13″W / 51.236538°N 0.570309°W / 51.236538; -0.570309
Guildfordi/ˈɡɪlfərd/ is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as the seat for the borough of Guildford. It is situated 27 miles (43 km) southwest of London on the A3 trunk road mid-way between the capital and Portsmouth.
The town has Saxon roots, and likely owes its location to the existence of a gap in the North Downs where the River Wey is forded by the Harrow Way. The town grew enough in importance that by 978 it was home to the Royal Mint. With the building of the Wey Navigation and Basingstoke Canal Guildford was in the centre of a network of waterways that aided its prosperity.
The Guildford pub bombing by the Provisional IRA in 1974 killed five people including four off-duty soldiers from the local barracks. The subsequently arrested suspects became known as the Guildford Four.
It is believed that Guildford was founded by Saxon settlers shortly after Roman authority had been removed from Britain (which was c.410AD). The site was likely chosen because the Harrow Way (an ancient trackway that continues along Hog's Back) crosses the River Wey at this point, via a ford. This probably gives rise to the second half of Guildford's name. The root of the first part is gold rather than society or meeting place.[citation needed] The Saxon name would have been Gyldeford, meaning golden ford. It has been suggested[by whom?] that the gold may refer to golden flowers by the ford, or the golden sand, but this is not certain. There is an old coaching Inn on the Epsom Road previously called the 'Sanford Arms', which almost certainly derives from 'Sand Ford', so this adds weight to the suggestion that 'Guildford' is a corruption of 'Gold Ford', referring to the very distinctive golden sand showing on the banks of the River Wey where it cuts through the sandy outcrop just south of the town.[citation needed]
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Haydon Meadow
Haydon Meadow (grid reference SU120890) known locally as Clifford Meadow is a 6.39 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1999.
The site lies within the Parish of Haydon Wick and is home to Anacamptis morio a rare protected species of Orchid family Orchidaceae. This flower was adopted as the logo for the nearby Priory Vale housing development.
Coordinates: 51°35′59″N 1°49′41″W / 51.59972°N 1.82814°W / 51.59972; -1.82814
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Haydon Wick
Coordinates: 51°35′23″N 1°48′34″W / 51.5897°N 1.8094°W / 51.5897; -1.8094
The Parish of Haydon Wick lies to the north of Swindon in Wiltshire, UK and has an estimated population in excess of 16,000, more than 13,950 of which are registered electors.
The local council is Haydon Wick Parish Council and the parish is split into three Parish Council Electoral Wards, Haydon End (4 councillors), Haydon Wick (13 councillors) and Ray Ward (1 councillor). The Parish Council is concerned with the overall economic, cultural and physical well being of the residents of Haydon Wick and is a statutory body forming the first tier of local government in England. For more than ten years the chairman of the Parish Council has been Richard Hailstone.
Prior to 1928 Haydon Wick was part of the Parish of Rodbourne Cheney.
Gas was installed in 1930, electricity arrived in 1939 and sewers came after 1928.
Originally a small village, during the latter part of the twentieth century and continuing today, house building has extended the numbers of properties and areas within the parish considerably. Local areas within the parish now include Haydon Wick, Haydonleigh, Greenmeadow Abbey Meads, Haydon End, Redhouse, Taw Hill and Oakhurst. Some of these areas fall within the Priory Vale northern development.
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Highworth
Coordinates: 51°37′51″N 1°42′43″W / 51.630850°N 1.7119367°W / 51.630850; -1.7119367
Highworth is a market town in the unitary authority of Swindon in Wiltshire, England, located about 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of Swindon town centre. At the 2001 census it had a population of 7,996. It is often described as the "gateway to the Cotswolds" but only on the recently erected signs, and is notable for its Queen Anne Style architecture and Georgian buildings dating from its pre-eminence in the 18th century.
Highworth is mentioned in the Domesday Book as 'Wrde'. During the English Civil War, when Charles I fought against Parliament, Highworth was a royalist stronghold. From 1894 to 1974 there was a Highworth Rural District. In 2006 the town celebrated the 800th anniversary of the granting of the charter for its market, which is still held every Saturday. Highworth, with a population of over 12,000, was formerly larger than neighbouring Swindon. The origins and layout of Highworth are medieval. The centre of the old town has been designated as a conservation area.
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Highworth Town F.C.
Highworth Town FC is a football club based in Highworth, Wiltshire, England. They joined the Hellenic League Division One in 1984 and won the Hellenic League Premier Division in 2004–05. Dave Webb is the manager. Ritchie Saunders is the first team captain. Kev Coles is the reserve team manager.
Hellenic League Premier Division Winners 2004–05 Runners-up 1999–2000
Hellenic League Supplementary Cup Winners 1998–99 Runners-up 2003–04
Hellenic League Division One Cup Winners 1988–89
Hellenic League Res Division One Winners 2010–11
Hellenic League Res Division One Runners-up 2002–03, 2009–10
Hellenic League Res Section(West) Winners 1984–85
Hellenic League Res Division Two Winners 1998–99
Hellenic League Res Division Two(W) Winners 2007–08
Hellenic Reserve Challenge Cup Winners 2008–09, 2009–10
Wilts Senior Cup Winners 1963–64, 1972–73, 1995–96, 1997–98, 2008–09 Runners-up 1962–63, 1988–89
Wilts Combination Division Two Runners-up 1970–71
Wilts Junior Cup Winners 1956–57
Wilts Youth Cup Winners 1996–97 Runners-up 1975–76
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Hook, Wiltshire
Coordinates: 51°33′32″N 1°53′13″W / 51.559°N 1.887°W / 51.559; -1.887 Hook is a small village in England between the town of Royal Wootton Bassett and the village of Purton, just north of the M4 motorway.
The village is linked to the large town of Swindon by a congested single-track road that's often used as a 'rat-run' by rush-hour commuters.
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Intel
Coordinates: 37°23′16.54″N 121°57′48.74″W / 37.3879278°N 121.9635389°W / 37.3879278; -121.9635389
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics (though a common misconception is that "Intel" is from the word intelligence[citation needed]). Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Though Intel was originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, its "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.
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Lambourn
Coordinates: 51°30′32″N 1°31′52″W / 51.509°N 1.531°W / 51.509; -1.531
Lambourn is a large village and civil parish in the northwestern part of the ceremonial county of Berkshire in England. Its metropolitan district has a population of 4,017, and is most noted for its associations with British National Hunt racehorse training.
Lambourn is situated in the valley of the River Lambourn, a summer bourn in the chalk upland area of the Berkshire Downs. It is 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Newbury, 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Marlborough, 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Swindon, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Wantage and 7 miles (11 km) north of Hungerford.
When the Vale of White Horse was transferred to Oxfordshire in 1974 Lambourn became the westernmost parish in Berkshire bordering Wiltshire to the south and west and Oxfordshire to the north and west, the only adjacent parishes in Berkshire are East Garston to the east and Hungerford to the southeast. Lambourn lies on the crossroads of the B4000 from Newbury to Highworth and the B4001 from Chilton Foliat to Childrey. The B4000 used to follow the River Lambourn up the Newbury Road until the construction of the M4 motorway in the early 1970s. When the M4 Motorway was built the B4000 was diverted along Ermin Street as the old road could not be widened for HGVs in the narrow streets of Great Shefford, Eastbury and Lambourn. The B4001 was also diverted onto Ermin Street because of the M4 and the B4000 and B4001 merge until they arrive in Lambourn at the bottom of Hungerford Hill. The M4 Motorway passes through the southern part of the parish between Junction 14 (7 miles (11 km) southeast of the village) and Junction 15 (8 miles (13 km) to the west). Membury Service Station (previously RAF Membury), Membury transmitting station and the northeastern quarter of Membury iron age fort are in the southwest corner of the parish.
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Larkhill
Coordinates: 51°11′53″N 1°48′47″W / 51.198°N 1.813°W / 51.198; -1.813
Larkhill is a garrison town in the civil parish of Durrington, Wiltshire, England. It is a short distance west of Durrington village proper and 1 mi (1.6 km) north of the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge. It is about 10 mi (16 km) north of Salisbury.
The settlement has a long association with the British military and originally grew from military camps. It is now one of the main garrisons on Salisbury Plain, along with Tidworth, Bulford Camp and Warminster.
Before the military garrison was established the area was known as Lark Hill, part of Durrington Down, owing to it being the highest point in the parish. After the first military buildings were established, it came to be known as Larkhill Camp.
Much of Larkhill sits within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, an area rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments. Several long barrows and round barrow groups are located within the settlement. Robin Hood's Ball, the Stonehenge Cursus and the Lesser Cursus lie close to the garrison.
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Liddington
Coordinates: 51°31′52″N 1°42′14″W / 51.531°N 1.704°W / 51.531; -1.704
Liddington is a village near Swindon in Wiltshire, England. The settlement lies south east of Swindon town, close to the M4 motorway, junction 15 of which is about 1.5 kilometres away via the B4192 - known as Purley Road where it passes through Liddington village.
The parish as a whole has been an area of settlement since the earliest times. The ancient Ridgeway traverses the parish just north of the village and the Iron Age hill-fort known as Liddington Castle overlooks the present-day village. Liddington is recorded in the late Saxon period, around 940 AD. The Domesday Book of 1086 refers to the settlement as Ledentone. Records indicate that Liddington was a fairly prosperous parish in the 14th century[citation needed] Population of the parish was 454 in 1841 but gradually declined thereafter[citation needed]
This is the control bunker for a WWII 'Starfish' bombing decoy site. 'SF' - standing for 'Special Fire'. This would have been used to control fires which would have acted as a decoy to enemy planes targeting the town of Swindon to the north.
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Link Centre
The Link Centre is a leisure centre in Swindon, England. The building was designed to be as energy efficient as possible with heat generated by the ice rink refrigeration system being used to warm its internal areas. Swindon Wildcats, an English Premier Ice Hockey League team, use the ice rink and facilities for their home games. It also contains the largest climbing wall in Wiltshire.
The centre was first commissioned by Thamesdown Borough Council (later renamed Swindon Borough Council) in 1970 to provide leisure and social facilities for an estimated West Swindon population of 50,000. Design was undertaken in-house under chief architect K P Sherry and work began on the site in 1983.
The space-age, multi-axial design incorporating an Ice Rink, Swimming pool and other facilities opened in April 1985, received an estimated 1 million visitors in its first year of operation and "won awards and favourable mentions in architectural circles."
"The complex, designed to provide facilities for more than 20 sports and leisure activities, was described in architectural and sports journals as the most comprehensive development of its kind in Britain. Among the early visitors who came to Swindon specially to see it was Richard Tracey, who was Sports Minister in Margaret Thatcher's government."
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London
Londoni/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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Lydiard Country Park
Lydiard Park is a 260-acre (1.1 km2) country park at Lydiard Tregoze, 7 km (4.3 mi) west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, UK near Junction 16 of the M4 .
The park contains Lydiard House, the former residence of the St John family, the Viscounts Bolingbroke. The house was built in the Elizabethan style in the early 17th century, but was later updated by its owner Sir John St John during the English Civil War.
It remained in the ownership of the St John family for over 500 years, but it was empty by 1943. It became a hospital for German prisoners of war, being allocated the number 160 as a p.o.w. camp. It still housed German soldiers as late as March, 1946.
Swindon Corporation was shamed by a schoolboy campaign into buying the property. They opened it to the public in 1955, and it remains open all year round. The house underwent a major restoration project, and was brought back to its original Palladian splendour. The house and grounds, though picturesque, are somewhat smaller than most English stately homes.
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Lydiard Millicent
Coordinates: 51°34′19″N 1°51′43″W / 51.572°N 1.862°W / 51.572; -1.862
Lydiard Millicent is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of the centre of Swindon.
The village has a primary school and a parish hall and recreation field. The Woodbridge Brook rises near the village.
The first part of the name of the village may be derived from the Old English for ‘gate by the ford’, while Millicent comes from Millicent de Clinton, who owned the manor in the 12th century and was the wife of William de Clinton.William fitzOsbern, a close associate of Willam of Normandy, mentioned the parish church of All Saints in a 1060 endowment. Lydiard Manor is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, owned by Geoffrey de Clinton.
The parish registers now kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre cover the years 1579-1968 (baptisms), 1580-1992 (marriages), and 1580-1988 (burials).
A history of Lydiard Millicent is to be included in Volume XVIII of the VCH series A History of the County of Wiltshire, approaching publication in 2010.
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Lydiard Park
Lydiard Park is a 260-acre (1.1 km2) country park at Lydiard Tregoze, 7 km (4.3 mi) west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, UK near Junction 16 of the M4 .
The park contains Lydiard House, the former residence of the St John family, the Viscounts Bolingbroke. The house was built in the Elizabethan style in the early 17th century, but was later updated by its owner Sir John St John during the English Civil War.
It remained in the ownership of the St John family for over 500 years, but it was empty by 1943. It became a hospital for German prisoners of war, being allocated the number 160 as a p.o.w. camp. It still housed German soldiers as late as March, 1946.
Swindon Corporation was shamed by a schoolboy campaign into buying the property. They opened it to the public in 1955, and it remains open all year round. The house underwent a major restoration project, and was brought back to its original Palladian splendour. The house and grounds, though picturesque, are somewhat smaller than most English stately homes.
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M4 motorway
The M4 motorway links London with South Wales. It is part of the unsigned European route E30. Other major places along the route include Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff and Swansea. Originally referred to as the London-South Wales Motorway, the English section was constructed between 1965 and 1971, the Welsh section was completed in 1993 and the Second Severn Crossing opened in 1996.
The M4 runs close to the A4 from London to Bristol. After crossing the River Severn it follows the A48 through South Wales, using the Brynglas Tunnels at Junction 25a, Newport and terminates just north of Pontarddulais. The route of the M4 is known as the M4 corridor.
A new road from London to South Wales was first proposed in the 1930s, and the Ministry of Transport announced plans for the M4 as one of the first major post-war trunk road improvement projects in 1956.
The Chiswick Flyover opened in 1959. However it was not originally classed as a motorway. The Maidenhead bypass opened in 1961 whilst J1-J5 opened in 1965. From J18 to the west of Newport was opened in 1966 and included the Severn Bridge (now part of the M48). The Port Talbot by-pass, also built in the 1960s and now part of the M4, was originally the A48(M) motorway, a number now allocated to a short section of motorway near Cardiff. The Ministry of Transport originally intended that the M4 would terminate at Tredegar Park west of Newport, and it was only following the creation of the Welsh Office that the Government became committed to a high-standard dual carriageway to Pont Abraham in Carmarthenshire.
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Marlborough Downs
Coordinates: 51°10′19″N 1°49′30″W / 51.172°N 1.825°W / 51.172; -1.825
The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. The name North Wessex Downs is not a traditional one, the area covered being better known by various overlapping local names, including the Berkshire Downs, the White Horse Hills, the Lambourn Downs, the Marlborough Downs, the Vale of Pewsey and Savernake Forest.
The AONB covers an area of some 1,730 km2 (670 sq mi). It takes the form of a horse shoe on its side, with the open end facing east, surrounding the town of Newbury and the River Kennet watershed. The northern arm reaches as far east as the suburbs of Reading, mid-Berkshire, whilst the southern arm similarly reaches Basingstoke in northern Hampshire. The western extreme of the AONB reaches as far as Calne and Devizes. The highest points are the 297m (974 ft) summit of Walbury Hill, situated southwest of Hungerford in West Berkshire, close to the Hampshire border, and the Milk Hill-Tan Hill ridge east of Devizes, mid-Wiltshire, at 295m (968 ft) above sea level.
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Melksham
Coordinates: 51°22′25″N 2°08′16″W / 51.373553°N 2.137898°W / 51.373553; -2.137898
Melksham is a medium-sized English town, lying on the River Avon. It lies in the county of Wiltshire.
It is situated 19 km (12 mi) southeast of the city of Bath, 11 km (6.8 mi) south of Chippenham, 8 miles (13 km) west of Devizes and 14 miles (23 km) north of Warminster on the A350 national route. The 2001 UK census cited Melksham as having 20,000 inhabitants, including sizeable environs such as Bowerhill and Berryfield. As such it is Wiltshire's fifth-largest town by population after Swindon, Salisbury, Chippenham and Trowbridge.
The town of Melksham developed at a ford across the River Avon and the name is presumed to derive from "meolc", the Old English for milk, and "ham", a village. On John Speed's map of Wiltshire (1611), the name is spelt both Melkesam (for the hundred) and Milsham (for the town itself). Melksham was a royal estate at the time of the Norman Conquest[citation needed]
In 1539 the prioress and nuns of Amesbury surrendered their Melksham estates to the king[citation needed] which they had held for about 250 years. This property, which consisted of the Lordship of the Manor and Hundred, was in 1541 granted to Sir Thomas Seymour. Seymour then sold it to Henry Brouncker, who had already made purchases of real estate in the neighbourhood. At some uncertain date, perhaps about 1550, Brouncker built a residence for himself on the site of an earlier mansion. This was known as Place House, built in a style suitable to that of a resident lord, who was also a man of considerable wealth.
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Mere, Wiltshire
Coordinates: 51°05′24″N 2°15′58″W / 51.090°N 2.266°W / 51.090; -2.266
Mere is a small town in Wiltshire, England. It lies at the extreme southwestern tip of Salisbury Plain close to the borders of Somerset and Dorset.
There is an old market square (although markets have not been held for several years), a chiming town clock and a large 15th century parish church of St Michael the Archangel, along with St Mary's Catholic church and also Methodist and United Reformed churches. The number of shops has halved since the A303 bypass road was opened in 1976. The steep slope of Castle Hill rises from the northwestern side of Mere. Castle Hill was the site of a relatively large (390 by 102 feet) castle, built in the mid-13th century by the lord of the manor, Richard, Earl of Cornwall. The castle fell into disrepair in the 15th century and its stone is said to have been used to build local houses. The Duchy of Cornwall still owns large amounts of land in the area. Local industry and commerce includes the Hill Brush company, large wholesale plant nurseries and the notable Yapp's wine merchants.
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Museum of Computing
Coordinates: 51°33′29″N 1°46′59″W / 51.558°N 1.783°W / 51.558; -1.783
The Museum of Computing in Swindon, England is dedicated to preserving and displaying examples of early computers. It was the first United Kingdom museum exclusively dedicated to the history of computing and opened in February 2003.
It aims to preserve the history of computing, to be used as a valuable educational resource and as an information repository for historians, collectors and the media, and to illustrate this history in an entertaining way.
The Museum includes working machines and interactive activities. The exhibitions have included the Pong to PlayStation exhibition.
The exhibition "Calculators from the Abacus to the Microchip" , was launched by Sir Clive Sinclair in March 2006.
In April 2007, the Museum was honoured by a visit from HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, patron of the British Computer Society.
The Museum moved to 6–7 Theatre Square in July 2009, between the library and the theatre.
In May 2010, the Museum celebrated the 30th anniversary of the video game Pac-Man with a real life Pac-Man game and special exhibition at the museum all day.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua (i/ˌnɪkəˈrɑːɡwə/ nik-ə-RAH-gwə), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: República de Nicaragua [reˈpuβlika ðe nikaˈɾaɣwa] ( listen)), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west, and the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country's physical geography divides it into three major zones: Pacific lowlands; wet, cooler central highlands; and the Caribbean lowlands. On the Pacific side of the country are the two largest fresh water lakes in Central America—Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua. Surrounding these lakes and extending to their northwest along the rift valley of the Gulf of Fonseca are fertile lowland plains, with soil highly enriched by ash from nearby volcanoes of the central highlands. Nicaragua's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contribute to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot.
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Nova Hreod
Coordinates: 51°35′28″N 1°48′11″W / 51.591°N 1.803°W / 51.591; -1.803
Nova Hreod College is a comprehensive school in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, educating children between the ages of eleven and sixteen. The school is a dual specialist Science College and Mathematics and Computing College, designated as such in September 2006.
Hreod is the Anglo Saxon word for a reed. The small stream that runs along the bottom of the field where the school was built is called the Hreod Burna, from which the first school got its name. It is a term found in the Domesday Book entry for the locality and describes a minor tributary of the River Ray which still runs through the valley in which Nova Hreod lies.
Hreod Burna High School was opened in 1966. The children who attended were aged 14 to 18 years, which means it had a VIth form. Initially, children were drawn from Moredon Secondary, and Ferndale Secondary .
The Head Teacher of Hreod Burna was Dr Blackwell, who remained at the school until 1984 when schools in Swindon stopped taking VIth form students, and New College was opened to educate them all together. Hreod Burna High School was then amalgamated with Moredon Secondary School and renamed Hreod Parkway School, under the headship of Mr Cleall. Both Ferndale and Pinehurst Secondary Schools were closed, and their buildings used for other activities by the local council.[citation needed]
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Oasis Leisure Centre
Coordinates: 51°34′01″N 1°47′28″W / 51.567°N 1.791°W / 51.567; -1.791
The Oasis Leisure Centre (commonly Swindon Oasis) is an entertainment and sports complex, situated outside Swindon town centre. It has many facilities available, such lagoon swimming pool, gym, bar and concert hall.
Over the last few years, the concert hall has become a major venue for touring acts and can hold approximately 3,000 people.
The Britpop band Oasis took their name after singer Liam Gallagher saw the name as a venue from a poster. In 2011, twenty years after naming his first band after the centre, he will perform there for the first time with new band Beady Eye.
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Ocotal
Ocotal is the capital of the Nueva Segovia Department in Nicaragua, Central America.
Ocotal is the capital of the Nueva Segovia Department in Nicaragua with light industry and crafts. The main agricultural production is coffee. The city, which has a population of 39.450 (as of 2000), is located in a valley. The name comes from the native language word for pine resin, due to the local abundant pine ocote. It was the third Spanish colony (after León and Granada) founded in what would eventually be called the Province of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Its original name was Nueva Ciudad Segovia (New Segovia) and credits for its foundation are given to Rodrigo de Contreras in 1543.
There are 29 neighbourhoods: José Santos Rodríguez, Sandino, Hermanos Zamora, Teodoro López, Monseñor Madrigal, José Santos Duarte, Danilo Ponce, Yelba María Antúnez,Anexo Yelba María Antunez, Noel Weelock, Enrique Lacayo Farfán, Anexo Laura Sofía, Roberto Gómez Montalvan, Laura Sofía Olivas Paz, Nicarao, Leonardo Matute, 26 de septiembre, Santa Ana, Carlos Manuel Jarquin, Ramón Augusto López, Nora Astorga, Cristo del Rosario, Nuevo Amanecer, María Auxiliadora, Dinamarca, Pueblos unidos (where the Colonia del Maestro y 8 de mayo zones have been built).
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Okus Quarry
Okus Quarry (grid reference SU147836) is a 2,500 square metre geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951.
The site was formerly notified under the name "Okus Quarries".
Coordinates: 51°33′04″N 1°47′22″W / 51.55110°N 1.78939°W / 51.55110; -1.78939
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Paddington
Coordinates: 51°31′02″N 0°10′23″W / 51.5172°N 0.1730°W / 51.5172; -0.1730
Paddington is a district within the City of Westminster, in central London, England. Formerly a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Paddington station, designed by the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1847; St Mary's Hospital and Paddington Green Police Station (the most important high-security police station in the United Kingdom).
A major project called Paddington Waterside aims to regenerate former railway and canal land between 1998 and 2018, and the area is seeing many new developments.
The earliest extant reference to Padington, historically a part of Middlesex, was made in 1056.[citation needed]
In the later Elizabethan and early Stuart era, the rectory and associated estate houses were occupied by the Small (or Smale) family. Nicholas Small was a clothworker sufficiently well connected to have his new wife's (Jane Small) portrait painted by Holbein. Nicholas died in 1565 and his wife married again, to Nicholas Parkinson, who also resided in Paddington. Parkinson went on to be the Master of the Clothworker's company. Jane Small continued to live in Paddington after her second husband's death, and her manor house was big enough to have been let to Sir John Popham, the attorney general, in the 1580s. At this time there was an inn attached to the estate, named Blowers.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth (i/ˈpɔːtsməθ/) is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island. It is situated 64 miles (103 km) south west from London and 19 miles (31 km) south east from Southampton.
As a significant naval port for centuries, Portsmouth is home to the world's oldest dry dock still in use and also home to some famous ships, including HMS Warrior, the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Lord Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. Although smaller than in its heyday, the naval base remains a major dockyard and base for the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Commandos whose Headquarters resides there. There is also a thriving commercial ferryport serving destinations on the continent for freight and passenger traffic. The City of Portsmouth and Portsmouth Football Club are both nicknamed Pompey.
The Spinnaker Tower is a striking recent addition to the city's skyline. It can be found in the redeveloped former HMS Vernon, formerly a shore establishment or 'stone frigate' of the Royal Navy, now an area of retail outlets, restaurants, clubs and bars now known as Gunwharf Quays.
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Priory Vale
Coordinates: 51°35′50″N 1°48′18″W / 51.597235°N 1.805111°W / 51.597235; -1.805111
Priory Vale is a community within the Swindon (England) ‘Northern Development Area’. It is made up of the villages Redhouse, Oakhurst and Haydon End. Although not strictly part of Priory Vale, the nearby village of Taw Hill completes this latest instalment in Swindon's northern expansion which began with Abbey Meads and continued at St Andrew's Ridge. The area was developed during the early 21st Century.
The Northern Development Area is served by Thamesdown Drive, or the 'Northern Orbital Road' which runs through the centre of Priory Vale, linking Purton Road in West Swindon, itself an urban expansion area from the 1970s and 1980s to the new Blunsdon Bypass and towards Cirencester.
On completion, Priory Vale is expected to comprise just over 6000 new homes spread over 640 acres (2.6 km2) of land. The homes themselves take up 390 acres (1.6 km2), interspersed with 82 acres (330,000 m2) of open space.
There are currently five schools in Priory Vale spread over 45 acres (180,000 m2): Red Oaks Primary School, Brimble Hill Primary School, Uplands Secondary School and Isambard Community School all within the Priory Vale Learning Campus in Redhouse, and Orchid Vale Primary School in Haydon End. Swindon Council has recently announced plans to build an additional primary school in the Oakhurst area of Priory Vale.
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Purton
Coordinates: 51°35′28″N 1°51′58″W / 51.591°N 1.866°W / 51.591; -01.866
Purton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire. The civil parish includes the village of Purton Stoke and the hamlets of Bentham, Hayes Knoll, Restrop and Widham.
The village is a linear settlement along the old road between the historic market towns of Cricklade 4 miles (6.4 km) to the north and Royal Wootton Bassett 3 miles (4.8 km) to the south. Purton is on a minor road 1 mile (1.6 km) from the B4553 and 3 miles (4.8 km) from junction 16 of the M4 motorway. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of the centre of Swindon
Purton is on the brow of a hill, with views across to Cricklade and the Thames floodplain. Nearby, Bradon Forest stretches out to Minety in the west.
Village amenities include several shops, a sub-post office, a library, public houses and restaurants, a GP's practice, dentist, and veterinary surgery. The village has grown such that its retailers are not all concentrated in one centre. A few shops are on the main road at the junction with Pavenhill, and a few are around the bend in the road near the Village Hall.
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Queens Park, Swindon
Coordinates: 51°33′25″N 1°46′30″W / 51.557°N 1.775°W / 51.557; -1.775 Queens Park is a public park, located near the Regent Circus area of Swindon town centre.
It is about 12 acres (49,000 m2) in size, with a lake of around 2 acres (8,100 m2), and contains a diverse range of ornamental trees and shrubs.
The park has a The Garden of Remembrance, officially opened by Princess Elizabeth on 15 November 1950 and commemorates those who died in World War II.
It is subject to opening hours but this may be changed by Swindon Council to 24 hours to reduce costs although residents feel that this may lead to more criminal and undesirable activity.
The Queens Park Community Council recently launched the first ever Swindon based Community Council website, which includes photographs and historical information about Queens Park. The website also invites those living in the area to participate in local events and meetings.
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RAF Lyneham
RAF Lyneham (IATA: LYE, ICAO: EGDL) is a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It was the home of all the Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force before they were relocated to RAF Brize Norton. The station was also home to No. 38 Expeditionary Air Wing.
RAF Lyneham was the Royal Air Force's principal Transport hub, operating the modern C-130J Hercules, and the aging, but very adaptable, C-130K Hercules. The base was designated as a Master Diversion Airfield. It is one of the primary airfields to which aircraft divert in the eventuality of their home bases being closed due to weather, or other unforeseen events (such as aircraft crashes), having occurred.
RAF Lyneham is also renowned for being the "gateway" between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan; the base was also where repatriation of British personnel killed in Afghanistan takes place. The bodies were transported through the nearby town of Royal Wootton Bassett, with crowds lining the streets to pay tribute to the fallen.
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Ramsbury
Coordinates: 51°26′31″N 1°36′22″W / 51.442°N 1.606°W / 51.442; -1.606
Ramsbury is a village in Ramsbury and Axford civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The village is in the Kennet Valley near the Berkshire boundary. The nearest towns are Hungerford about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) east and Marlborough about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west. The much larger town of Swindon is about 12 miles (19 km) to the north.
The civil parish includes the hamlet of Axford about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of Ramsbury. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 1,969.
Littlecote Roman Villa is in the parish. The earliest written history of Ramsbury can be traced from the Saxon era when the bishopric of Ramsbury was created in 909 AD. The see was moved to Old Sarum in 1075.
Church of England parish church of the Holy Cross dates from the 13th century. It has a ghost story: according to local legend, if you count the hundred studs on the north door at midnight, it will open, and the ghost of 'Wild' William Darrell of Littlecote House will come out.
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Reading, Berkshire
Reading (i/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing) is a large town and unitary authority area in England. It is located in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some 40 miles (64 km) west of London.
The Borough of Reading has a population of 145,700 (2008 estimate) and the town formed the largest part of the Reading/Wokingham Urban Area which had a population of 369,804 (2001 census). The town is currently represented in the UK parliament by two members, and has been continuously represented there since 1295. For ceremonial purposes the town is in the county of Berkshire and has served as its county town since 1867, previously sharing this status with Abingdon.
The first evidence for Reading as a settlement dates from the 8th century. Reading was an important centre in the medieval period, as the site of Reading Abbey, a monastery with strong royal connections. The town was seriously impacted by the Civil War, with a major siege and loss of trade, and played a pivotal role in the Revolution of 1688, with that revolution's only significant military action fought on the streets of the town. The 19th century saw the coming of the Great Western Railway and the development of the town's brewing, baking and seed growing businesses.
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River Ebble
The River Ebble is one the five rivers of the English city of Salisbury.
Rising at Alvediston 12 miles to the west 51°0′36.41″N 2°2′5.76″W / 51.0101139°N 2.0349333°W / 51.0101139; -2.0349333 it joins the River Avon 2 miles south of Salisbury at Bodenham 51°1′58.04″N 1°45′29.10″W / 51.0327889°N 1.758083°W / 51.0327889; -1.758083, after flowing through Ebbesbourne Wake, Fifield Bavant, Little London, Knapp, Mount Sorrel, Broad Chalke, Stoke Farthing, Bishopstone, Stratford Tony, Coombe Bissett, Odstock and Nunton.
The River Chalke is the most significant tributary, rising in Bowerchalke and flowing through the Chalke Valley to join the Ebble at Mount Sorrel in Broad Chalke, after running through and trout farms. The Chalke also provides a steady, year round flow so that the winterbourne section of the Ebble is only from Alvediston to Knapp.
The flow of the Ebble is augmented at Little London by multiple pumped bore holes that feed the extensive commercial watercress farm at Knapp before the confluence with the Chalke.
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River Nadder
The River Nadder is one of the chalk stream rivers of southern England, much sought after by fly fishermen because of its clear waters and abundance of brown trout. It is one of the main tributaries of the River Avon, rising from a number of springs and small streams at Donhead St. Mary in south Wiltshire. The river winds its way east-northeast, heading towards the medieval cathedral city of Salisbury.
During the course of its 32 kilometre journey the Nadder meanders and widens gradually until it flows through the park of Wilton House to the west of Salisbury after which the river joins the River Wylye, another tributary of the Avon. For its last few kilometres it passes through the unspoilt water meadows at Harnham on the outskirts of the city, and finally into the River Avon beneath a backdrop of the magnificent Salisbury Cathedral spire.
The origin of the name is from Brythonic nootr, "flowing water". Folk etymology derives it from the perceived likeness of its meanderings to an adder, the original Old English name for which was "nadder".
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Salisbury
Coordinates: 51°04′26″N 1°47′37″W / 51.0740°N 1.7936°W / 51.0740; -1.7936
Salisbury ( /ˈsɔːlzbri/ SAWLZ-bree or /ˈsɒlzbri/ SOLZ-bree, or locally /ˈsɔːzbri/) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England and the only city in the county. It is the second largest settlement in the county (the largest being Swindon). It has also been called New Sarum to distinguish it from the original site of settlement to the north of the city at Old Sarum, but this alternative name is not in common use.
The city is located in the south-east of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. It sits at the confluence of five rivers: the Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne are tributary to the Avon, which flows to the south coast and into the sea at Christchurch, Dorset. Salisbury railway station serves the city, and is the crossing point between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line, making it a regional interchange.
Although the actual city was not established until 1220, there has been a settlement in the area since prehistory. There is evidence of Neolithic settlement on the hilltop of Old Sarum, which became a hill fort in the Iron Age. The Romans called this fort "Sorviodunum" and may also have occupied the fort. The Saxons established themselves there called it "Searesbyrig" and the Normans built a castle or "Seresberi". By 1086, in the Domesday Book, it was called "Salesberie".
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Shrivenham
Coordinates: 51°35′53″N 1°39′32″W / 51.598°N 1.659°W / 51.598; -1.659
Shrivenham is a large village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, England, about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Swindon. Shrivenham was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.
Shrivenham has numerous thatched cottages, stone walls, an historic pump and a parish church that is unusual for having been rebuilt in the 17th century. The village has three historic public houses: the Barrington Arms, The Crown and the Prince of Wales.
The main country estate in Shrivenham is the Beckett Estate. In the 17th century it was the home of Henry Marten, the regicide. Later the Barrington family owned the estate and lived at Beckett Hall. The family and estate gave their names to Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Becket, Massachusetts.[citation needed]
At the end of World War II in Europe, the U.S. Army's Information and Educational Branch was ordered to establish an overseas university campus for demobilized American service men and women. It did this on the Beckett estate at Shrivenham. This, and two campuses in Europe, was set up to provide a transition between army life and subsequent attendance at a university in the USA, and therefore students attended for just one term (see G. I. American Universities)
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South Marston
South Marston is a village in north-east Wiltshire, England. The name Marston derives from the common English village name meaning marsh farm. It is part of the Borough of Swindon. Early in World War II, a Ministry of Aircraft Production shadow factory and airfield were built for the Phillips & Powis (later Miles) aircraft company which built Miles Master training aircraft there. Short Brothers Ltd also used part of the airfield for final assembly and testing locally-built Stirling bombers and Vickers-Armstrong-Supermarine acquired the site by the end of the war and continued to produce military aircraft such as the Attacker, Swift and Scimitar there until the early 1960s.
As the economy and population of Swindon expanded through the latter half of the 20th century, so did that of South Marston; the purchase of the former Vickers-Armstrong factory airfield by Honda in 1985 and large residential development on the site of the Manor House in the mid-80s contributed to the diversification of the population to include industrial workers and commuting professionals.
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2.0 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists believe the iconic stone monument was constructed anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC, as described in the chronology below. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were erected in 2400–2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been erected at the site as early as 3000 BC (see phase 1 below).
The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge monument. It is a national legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.
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Stratton St Margaret
Coordinates: 51°35′10″N 1°45′43″W / 51.586°N 1.762°W / 51.586; -1.762
Stratton St Margaret is a civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The parish covers north-eastern suburbs of Swindon including Stratton St Margaret itself along with Upper Stratton, Lower Stratton, Nythe and Kingsdown.
Stratton St Margaret, once a village, has now become the north east part of Swindon and is rapidly becoming suburbanised. The area of the parish was originally much larger than it is now. Most of Gorse Hill was part of the parish until it was transferred to Swindon in 1890 and a large part of the housing estate of Penhill was once fields in Stratton St. Margaret.
Stratton derives its name from the Latin strata ("paved way" or "street") after the former Roman road whose course traverses the parish east – west. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the toponym Stratone, when the parish was held by Nigel, physician to William the Conqueror. The village consisted of three hamlets: The Street; the area around Green Road and Dores Road and including the few houses at Kingsdown; and Stratton Green, mainly around Tilleys Lane. Footpaths and coffin-ways joined the hamlets.
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Surrey
Surrey /ˈsʌri/ is a county in the South East of England, and one of the home counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford.Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of Greater London since 1965. The London boroughs of Lambeth, Wandsworth and Southwark were considered part of Surrey until 1889; and Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Sutton, Barnes and Richmond - all now reclassified as part of Greater London - were part of Surrey until 1965.
Surrey is divided into 11 boroughs and districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking. After the elections of 1 May 2008, the Conservatives are in control of 10 out of 11 councils in Surrey, with Epsom and Ewell in Residents Association control. The Conservatives hold all 11 Parliamentary constituencies within the county borders.
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Swindon
Coordinates: 51°34′N 1°47′W / 51.56°N 1.78°W / 51.56; -1.78
Swindon ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a large town within the Borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is situated midway between Bristol, 40 miles (64 km) west and Reading, 40 miles (64 km) east. London is 81 miles (130 km) to the east. In the 2001 census, the population of the Swindon urban area was 155,432, while the wider borough of Swindon had a population of 184,000.
Swindon was named an Expanded Town under the Town Development Act 1952 and this led to a major increase in its population.Swindon railway station is on the line from London Paddington to Bristol. Swindon Borough Council, is a unitary authority independent of Wiltshire Council since 1997. Residents of Swindon are known as Swindonians. Swindon is home to the Bodleian Library's book depository, which contains 153 miles (246 km) of bookshelves.
The original Saxon settlement of Swindon sat in a defensible position atop a limestone hill. It is referred to in the Domesday Book as Suindune, believed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon words "swine" and "dun" meaning pig hill or possibly, Sweyn's hill, where Sweyn would be the local landlord.
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Swindon Art Gallery
Swindon Art Gallery is located in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It includes a collection of 20th-century British art, one of the best in the country outside London. The collection was established in 1944 by a local benefactor, H.J.P. Bomford, through a significant donation of artworks.
Artists in the collection include Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, L S Lowry, Paul Nash, Steven Pippin, Terry Frost, Howard Hodgkin, Gwen John, Augustus John, Maggi Hambling, Ivon Hitchens, Christopher le Brun, Lisa Milroy, David Leach, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. The media include paintings, photography and studio pottery.
Swindon Museum is located next to the gallery. Swindon Museum and Art Gallery is one of the venues for the Swindon Festival of Literature.
Coordinates: 51°33′10″N 1°46′39″W / 51.5528°N 1.7775°W / 51.5528; -1.7775
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Swindon Arts Centre
Swindon Arts Centre is a 200-seat entertainment venue located in the Old Town of Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
The centre features all types of music, professional and amateur theatre, nationally recognised comedians, films, children's events, and one-man shows.
The Arts Centre hosts festivals and series such as the One Act Play Festival, and Swindon Music Festival, and the Swindon Recital Series of classical music concerts. The Swindon Film Society shows British and international films at the centre.
The Swindon Arts Centre reopened in January 2003 following its refurbishment. Improvements included the addition of a lift in the new entrance foyer to give easy access to the auditorium on the first floor, new accessible toilets and new seats in the auditorium.
In 2010 the venue underwent a major refurbishment. The ground floor was completely redesigned to create a new performance studio, bar & cafe and the refursbishment also made room for the Swindon Old Town public library to relocate in to the building.
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Swindon College
Swindon College is a further education college in Swindon, England. Its campus is at North Star, just outside the town centre. The college has HNC/Ds and Foundation Degrees, through to BA (Hons) courses and a postgraduate programme.
It is also the provider of The Fitness Academy, based at Centre Fitness gym.
Coordinates: 51°34′5.68″N 1°47′14.89″W / 51.5682444°N 1.7874694°W / 51.5682444; -1.7874694
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Swindon Museum
Swindon Museum is located in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The museum has displays of local archaeology, geology, and history. These present Swindon's geological Jurassic history, its association with the Roman Empire, and the town's social history.
Swindon Museum is located in a listed building next to Swindon Art Gallery on the corner of Bath Road and Victoria Road in Swindon's Old Town. Swindon Museum and Art Gallery is one of the venues for the Swindon Festival of Literature.
Coordinates: 51°33′10″N 1°46′40″W / 51.5527°N 1.7777°W / 51.5527; -1.7777
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Swindon Town Hall
Coordinates: 51°33′32″N 1°46′55″W / 51.559°N 1.782°W / 51.559; -1.782
The current Swindon Town Hall, England was built in the late 19th century to be a centrepiece of New Swindon, powers transferred to it from the Old Town Hall in 1891.
The Whole building is currently used by SWINDON DANCE a National Dance Agency. But parts of the lower floor, previously occupied by Swindon Reference Library, remain vacant.
Until the erection of the Corn Exchange and Town Hall in Old Swindon, the Goddard Arms was used. This small pub was up until 1820 a small cottage alehouse named the Crown and had been owned by the Goddards since 1621. It has been beneficial to the entire surrounding areas because of its vast community suppliers and representatives.
In 1750 a large assembly room was built adjoining the pub and it was thereafter used for balls, concerts, the Court Leet, the Magistrates' Court, County Court, auction house and even as a booking office for the Great Western Railway before the eventual construction of Swindon railway station.
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Swindon Works
Coordinates: 51°33′43″N 1°47′42″W / 51.562°N 1.795°W / 51.562; -1.795
Swindon railway works were built by the Great Western Railway in 1841 in Swindon in the English county of Wiltshire.
In 1835 Parliament approved the construction of a railway between London and Bristol. Its Chief Engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
From 1836, Brunel had been buying locomotives from various makers for the new railway. Few of them were satisfactory, some suggest,[who?] because of Brunel's specifications. In 1837, Brunel recruited Daniel Gooch and gave him the job of rectifying the situation.
It became clear that the GWR needed a central repair works so, in 1840 Gooch identified a site at Swindon because it was at the junction of the Cheltenham branch and also a "convenient division of the Great Western line for engine working". With Brunel's support, Gooch made his proposal to the GWR directors, who, on 25 February 1841, authorised the establishment of the works at Swindon. Construction started immediately and they became operational on 2 January 1843.
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Tampa
Tampa (pronunciation: /ˈtæmpə/) is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County and is located on the west coast of Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709.
The current location of Tampa was once inhabited by indigenous peoples of the Safety Harbor culture, most notably the Tocobaga and the Pohoy, who lived along the shores of Tampa Bay. It was briefly explored by Spanish explorers in the early 16th century, but there were no permanent American or European settlements within today's city limits until after the United States had acquired Florida from Spain in 1819.
In 1824, the United States Army established a frontier outpost called Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River, near the site of today's Tampa Convention Center. The first civilian residents were pioneers who settled near the fort for protection from the nearby Seminole population. The town grew slowly until the 1880s, when railroad links, the discovery of phosphate, and the arrival of the cigar industry jump-started Tampa's development and helped it to grow into an important city by the early 1900s.
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Tidworth
Coordinates: 51°14′06″N 1°39′54″W / 51.2350°N 1.665°W / 51.2350; -1.665
Tidworth is a town in south-east Wiltshire, England with a growing civilian population. Situated at the eastern edge of Salisbury Plain, it is approximately 10 miles west of Andover, 12 miles south of Marlborough, 24 miles south of Swindon, 15 miles north by north-east of Salisbury and 6 miles east of Amesbury. Its population is approximately 9,500.
Tidworth was listed in the Domesday Book as Todeorde, in the Andover Hundred, in "Hantscire". It was once the family home of the Studd family. On John Speed's maps (1611), the town is referred to as Tudworth, North Tudworth belonging to Amesbury hundred in "Wilshire", and South Tudworth to Andover hundred in "Hamshire". When the boundary between Wiltshire and Hampshire was redrawn in 1992, the old distinction between North Tidworth and South Tidworth vanished, and the entire town became part of Wiltshire. The separate parts remained as two separate civil parishes until 1 April 2004.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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USA
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Walsall
Coordinates: 52°35′N 1°59′W / 52.58°N 1.98°W / 52.58; -1.98
Walsall ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. It is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Walsall is a component area of the West Midlands conurbation and part of the Black Country.
Walsall is the administrative headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, though it has changed its name to Walsall Council. In the 2001 census, the town had a population of 170,994 with the wider borough having a population of 253,500. Neighbouring towns in the borough include Brownhills, Willenhall, Bloxwich and Aldridge.
The name Walsall is thought to have derived from the words "Walh halh", meaning "valley of the Welsh speakers" (referring to the Brythons). Walsall is first referenced as 'Walesho' in a document dated 1002. Possibly as a result of a clerical error, it is not referenced in the Domesday Book, while the settlements of Aldridge, Bescot, Shelfield, Pelsall, Bloxwich, Great Barr and Rushall within the Metropolitan Borough are. However, it is believed that a manor was held here by William FitzAnsculf, who held numerous manors in the Midlands. By the first part of the 13th century, Walsall was a small market town, with the weekly market being introduced in 1220 and held on Tuesdays. The mayor of Walsall was created as a political position in the 14th century. Walsall is known as "the town of a hundred trades". (This appellation is a nod to the fact that nearby Birmingham is known as "the city of a thousand trades".)
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Warminster
Coordinates: 51°12′32″N 2°10′47″W / 51.2090°N 2.1796°W / 51.2090; -2.1796
Warminster is a town in western Wiltshire, England, by-passed by the A36 (between Salisbury and Bath) and the partly concurrent A350 between Westbury and Blandford Forum. It has a population of about 19,000.[citation needed] The River Were runs through the town and can be seen running through the middle of the town park. The Minster Church of St Denys sits on the River Were. The name Warminster first occurs in the early 10th century.
The town was first settled in the Anglo-Saxon period, though there are the remains of numerous earlier settlements nearby, including the Iron Age hill forts of Battlesbury Camp, Scratchbury Camp and Cley Hill, the latter a site operated by the National Trust.
There are indications that a Middle Iron Age settlement may also have been situated just west of the town.
The town's prosperity following the growth of the wool trade in the Late Middle Ages caused the erection of many magnificent structures, including the Minster Church of Saint Denys, in a yew grove sacred from pre-Christian times, and including an organ originally destined for the then under-construction Salisbury Cathedral.[citation needed]
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Warrington
Warrington is a town, borough and unitary authority area of Cheshire, England. It stands on the banks of the River Mersey, which is tidal to the west of the weir at Howley. It lies 16 miles east of Liverpool, 19 miles west of Manchester and 8 miles south of St Helens. The population of the borough is 198,900. Its population has more than doubled since its designation as a New Town in 1968.
Historically a part of Lancashire, Warrington was founded by the Romans at an important crossing place on the River Mersey. A new settlement was established by the Saxons and by the Middle Ages, Warrington had emerged as a market town at a bridging point of the river. A local tradition of textile and tool production dates from this time.
The expansion and urbanisation of Warrington largely coincided with the Industrial Revolution, particularly after the Mersey was made navigable in the 18th century. The West Coast Mainline runs north to south through the town, and the Liverpool to Manchester railway (the Cheshire Lines route) west to east. The Manchester Ship Canal cuts through the south of the borough (west to east). The M6, M56 and M62 motorways form a partial box around the town.
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Westbury, Wiltshire
Coordinates: 51°15′32″N 2°11′26″W / 51.25891°N 2.19055°W / 51.25891; -2.19055
Westbury is a town and civil parish in the west of the English county of Wiltshire, most famous for the Westbury White Horse.
The most likely origin of the West- in Westbury is simply that the town is near the western edge of the county of Wiltshire, the bounds of which have been much the same since the Anglo-Saxon period.
The -bury part of the name is a form of borough, which has cognates in many languages, such as the German -burg and the Greek -pyrgos. It carries the idea of a hill or fortified town. For a fuller explanation, see borough. In Wiltshire, -bury often indicates an Iron Age or Bronze Age fortified hill fort, and such a site is to be found immediately above the Westbury White Horse.
Westbury is located 18 miles (29 km) south east of the city of Bath and about 5 miles (7.5 km) south of Trowbridge. Other nearby towns and cities include Bristol, Frome, Salisbury, Swindon and Warminster. Nearby villages include Bratton, Chapmanslade, Dilton Marsh, Edington, North Bradley, Rudge, Standerwick, Semington, West Ashton and Upton Scudamore.
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Wilton, Wiltshire
Coordinates: 51°04′48″N 1°51′50″W / 51.080°N 1.864°W / 51.080; -1.864
Wilton is a town in Wiltshire (of which it was once the county town), England, with a rich heritage dating back to the Anglo-Saxons. Today it is dwarfed by its larger and more famous neighbour, Salisbury, but still has a range of notable shops and attractions, including Wilton House.
The confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder is at Wilton.
The history of Wilton dates back to the Anglo-Saxons in the 8th century AD, and by the late 9th century it was the capital of Wiltunscire, a region of the Kingdom of Wessex. It remained the administrative centre of Wiltshire until the 11th century. Wilton was of significant importance to the church, with the founding of Wilton Abbey in AD 771 and a number of other establishments. In AD 871 Alfred the Great fought and lost an important battle there against the Danish armies, leaving him in retreat for several years.
Despite further attacks, Wilton remained a prosperous town, as recorded in the Domesday book. The building of Salisbury Cathedral nearby, however, caused Wilton's decline, as the new site of Salisbury, with a new bridge over the River Avon, provided a convenient bypass around Wilton on the trade routes.
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Wiltshire
Wiltshire ( /ˈwɪltʃər/ or /ˈwɪltʃɪər/, formerly /ˈwɪlʃər/; or the County of Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers 3,485 km2 (1,346 square miles). The ancient county town was Wilton, but since 1930 Wiltshire County Council and its successor Wiltshire Council (from 2009) have been based at Trowbridge.
Wiltshire is characterised by its high downland and wide valleys. Salisbury Plain is famous as the location of the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles and other ancient landmarks and as the main training area in the UK of the British Army. The city of Salisbury is notable for its mediaeval cathedral. Important country houses open to the public include Longleat, near Warminster, and the National Trust's Stourhead, near Mere.
The county, in the 9th century written as Wiltunscir, later Wiltonshire, is named after the former county town of Wilton, itself named after the river Wylye, one of eight rivers which drain the county.
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Wroughton
Coordinates: 51°31′30″N 1°47′31″W / 51.525°N 1.792°W / 51.525; -1.792
Wroughton is a large village in Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and is 4 miles (6 km) south of Swindon.
The earliest evidence of human presence in the area is from the Mesolithic period, although this is fairly limited. More significant evidence of settlement and occupation in the area is available for the Neolithic period, most notably due to the extensive ritual complex at Avebury (6 miles to the south) and scattered finds in the locality. The earliest archaeological evidence from within Wroughton dates from the Roman period (AD 43-410), showing a period of intensive settlement and farming in the area. Occupation of the area continued into the early Middle Ages (AD 410-1066) when two battles are understood to have taken place in the area: Breahburh (AD 567), thought to have been fought by Ceawlin of Wessex on the slopes of Barbury Hill, and Ellandun (AD 825) at Elcombe Hall by Egbert of Wessex. However there is no agreement that the latter was here (it is known to have been south of Swindon). Burial sites in the vicinity are believed to be associated with these battles.
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Wyvern Theatre
Coordinates: 51°33′29″N 1°46′59″W / 51.558°N 1.783°W / 51.558; -1.783 The Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, Wiltshire is named after the mythical wyvern which was once the emblem of the Kings of Wessex. It was opened on 7 September 1971 by Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Philip.
It is managed on behalf of Swindon Borough Council by Wyvern Theatre Ltd, a subsidiary of HQ Theatres Ltd. The Managing Director is Derek Aldridge, having taking over from the previous incumbent, Andrew Hill, on 1 June 2009. The auditorium has 635 seats, all designed to be within 70 ft from the stage.
It was designed in 1967 by Casson, Condor and Partner. The first performance was by the Ukrainian Dance Company.
Clear Channel Entertainment managed the venue for many years[when?] until 2005, when they lost the tender. The Wyvern was taken over by Wyvern Theatre Ltd, a subsidiary of Hetherington Seelig Theatres Ltd. on behalf of Swindon Borough Council.[citation needed]
On 3 September 2006 it closed temporarily after the discovery of traces of asbestos in the venue's offices and roof void during a routine inspection. It remained closed until September 2007 and the closure was used to refurbish the venue, bringing new decor, bars, cafés, disabled entrances and new seating costing £1.3m. The first performance afterwards was on 25 September 2007.
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Alan McLoughlin
Alan Francis McLoughlin (born 20 April 1967 in Manchester, England) is a former Irish coach, and former professional footballer, playing as a midfielder.
McLoughlin began his career as a trainee at Manchester United on leaving school in July 1983, turning professional at the start of the 1985–86 season. However, he never played a first team game for United and joined Swindon Town in August 1986, just after they had won promotion to the Football League Third Division.
However, his footballing style didn't fit with then manager Lou Macari's "long ball" style, and just seven months and nine appearances later, he moved to Torquay United on loan. His Swindon career looked to be over when he returned to Torquay at the start of the following season for another loan spell, but following suspensions to other players McLoughlin was given another chance in the first team and soon established himself as a regular for Swindon.
It was under Macari's successor as manager, Ossie Ardiles, that McLoughlin really blossomed. He was an ever present in Ardiles' first season, scoring sixteen goals. He capped off a fine season by scoring the winning goal in the play-off final at Wembley Stadium against Sunderland. McLoughlin's performances won him international recognition, and he was named in the Ireland squad for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. He made two appearances in the tournament, coming on as a substitute in the matches with England and Egypt.
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Colin Todd
Colin Todd (born 12 December 1948) is an English football manager and former player. As a player, he made more than 600 appearances in the Football League, playing for Sunderland, Derby County, Everton, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Oxford United and Luton Town, and also played in the North American Soccer League for the Vancouver Whitecaps. He won two Football League titles with Derby County during the 1970s, and won the PFA Players' Player of the Year award in 1975. He was capped by England on 27 occasions.
He has managed English league clubs Middlesbrough, Bolton Wanderers, Swindon Town, Derby County, Bradford City, Darlington and Danish Superliga side Randers FC. He took Bolton Wanderers to the Division One title with 98 points and 100 goals, although he was unable to establish them in the Premier League.
The young Todd had opportunities to sign for Newcastle United and Middlesbrough, but chose Sunderland "because of their tradition for youth". He played a major part in the Sunderland youth team's 1967 victory in the FA Youth Cup, led by coach Brian Clough. By then Todd was already a first-team regular. He made his debut as substitute for Charlie Hurley in a 1–1 draw away against Chelsea in the First Division on 10 September 1966, and by mid-season had established himself in the starting eleven. He missed only three league games in the next three seasons, at the end of which Sunderland were relegated from the top flight. After 191 appearances and three goals in all competitions for Sunderland, Todd rejoined Clough at Derby County in February 1971.
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Duncan Shearer
Duncan Nichol Shearer (born on 28 August 1962 in Fort William) is a former Scottish footballer and the brother of fellow former player Dave Shearer. He played shinty as well as football as a youth.
Shearer began his career as a twenty-year-old striker at Highland League club Clachnacuddin. From there, he moved to Chelsea in 1983, before going on to play for a number of English clubs including Huddersfield, Swindon Town and Blackburn Rovers.
He left Chelsea at the end of the 1985–86 season after only appearing in two League games for the London club (scoring one goal) and signed to Second Division Huddersfield, scoring a hat-trick in his first full game for the club (A 3–1 win against Barnsley) and was top goalscorer for 1986–87 and 1987–1988 whilst also being named the teams Player of the Year for 1987 and being including in the publication Huddersfield Town F.C. - The Fans' Favourites on the club's centenary in 2008.
However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987-88 season. Just weeks before, unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, whose captain Tony Adams missed the game through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams revealed that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored a hat-trick against Arsenal was Duncan Shearer.
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Fraser Digby
Fraser Charles Digby (born 23 January 1967 in Sheffield) is a retired goalkeeper who spent much of his career with Swindon Town, for whom he played in the Premier League. In 2008, he found new fame through repeated references to "Fraser Digby's washbag" on Danny Baker's 6-0-6 programme on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Digby was a Manchester United apprentice, making his League debut whilst on loan at Oldham Athletic in 1985, joining Swindon Town on a free transfer in December 1986 after two loan spells.
Digby, who represented England schools, youth and U-21s, did not leave Swindon until 1998. He played in the 1993 play-off final against Leicester City, a match Swindon won, thereby securing a place in the Premier League, and represented the club during their season at the top level of English football.
In late 1992, he returned to Manchester United on loan as cover for Peter Schmeichel and was selected as a substitute on several occasions but never came onto the pitch.
In August 1998, Digby signed for Crystal Palace, before moving on to Queens Park Rangers in 2001. He was released by QPR due to money shortages after which he played a handful of games for non-league Purfleet. He joined Kidderminster Harriers in 2003 on a game-by-game basis (non-contractual), while at the same time rejoining former club Swindon and taking on the two roles of commercial manager and goalkeeping coach under Andy King.
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Jan Åge Fjørtoft
Jan Åge Fjørtoft (born 10 January 1967 in Aalesund) is a former Norwegian footballer. A powerful centre forward with goalscoring ability, he played professionally in Norway, Austria, England and Germany. He appeared in 71 international matches (15 as the captain) and scoring 20 goals for Norway.
Fjørtoft is most famous and remembered in England for his goal celebration which saw him stretch out both of his arms and run around the pitch like an aeroplane.
After starting in Norway with Hamarkameratene and Lillestrøm S.K. and spending four seasons in the Austrian Bundesliga with SK Rapid Wien – where he became only the second foreigner to be Player of the Year in 1990, Fjørtoft spent several seasons in England during the 1990s. He joined Swindon Town in the summer of 1993 following their promotion to the Premiership, costing the Wiltshire club a record £500,000. He had a slow start to his career at Swindon endured a terrible start to their first ever top division campaign, failing to win any of their first 16 games. Fjørtoft failed to find the net until after Christmas, but scored 13 goals from his final 17 games. However, it was not enough to prevent Swindon from going down in bottom place with a mere five league wins having conceded 100 league goals.
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Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written several books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series: The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.
Fforde was born in London on 11 January 1961, the son of John Standish Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England (whose signature appeared on sterling banknotes during his time in office). He is the cousin, by her marriage to Desmond Fforde, of the author Katie Fforde, the grandson of Austro-Hungarian (later, Polish) political adviser Joseph Retinger, and a great-grandson of journalist E. D. Morel.
Fforde was educated at the progressive Dartington Hall School, and his early career was spent as a focus puller in the film industry, where he worked on a number of films, including The Trial, Quills, GoldenEye, and Entrapment.
Fforde published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001.
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John Moncur
John Frederick Moncur (born 22 September 1966) is an English former footballer. He played in midfield for Tottenham Hotspur, Swindon Town and West Ham United. While at White Hart Lane he went on loan to Doncaster Rovers, Cambridge United, Portsmouth, Brentford and Ipswich Town.
After playing in in Tottenham's reserve side and having been loaned to several clubs, Swindon Town manager Glenn Hoddle signed Moncur for £80,000 fee, towards the end of the 1991/92 season.
He made his debut as a substitute in a 1-0 win over Port Vale on 4 August 1992, his full debut coming four days later, in a 1-1 draw at Millwall.
Moncur started the following season in the side, but injury spoiled most of the season; he made only fourteen appearances in the league, three of which were as a substitute. Returning to fitness before the play-off campaign started he rejoined the squad in place of Micky Hazard. Moncur played in the three play-off games - scoring a goal in the second leg of the semi-final at Tranmere Rovers, which helped assure Swindon's place at Wembley in the 1993 Football League First Division play-off Final.
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Lou Macari
Luigi "Lou" Macari (born 4 June 1949 in Largs, North Ayrshire) is a Scottish former footballer and football manager of Italian descent.
After a promising start to his playing career with Celtic, he moved south of the border in 1973 for £200,000 to sign for Manchester United, where he would spend the bulk of his playing career.
During his time with Celtic he had scored 57 goals in 100 appearances since making his first team debut in 1970.
His first game for Manchester United came in January 1973 against West Ham United in which he scored a point-saving goal in a 2–2 draw. In 1977, his deflected shot off team mate Jimmy Greenhoff won Manchester United the FA Cup final against Liverpool (and ultimately denied Liverpool the European treble). He made 400 appearances for the club, scoring 98 goals.
Macari's early career at Old Trafford was spent trying to lead an attack that struggled to achieve anything. Relegation to the Second division in 1974 was the low point but Macari blossomed as a midfielder in the following seasons under Tommy Docherty, as United began to win back a large following with superb attacking football in which Macari enjoyed popularity alongside players such as Gordon Hill, Steve Coppell and the Greenhoff brothers.
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Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Haddon was born on 26 September 1962 in Northampton and educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English. Afterwards, he was employed in several different occupations. One included working with people with disabilities, and another included creating illustrations and cartoons for magazines and newspapers. He lived in Boston for a year with his wife until they moved back to England. Then, Mark took up painting and selling abstract art. Mark had a studio on the ground floor of his house; he thought that it looked like a primary school library on the inside. This is appropriate, however, considering that Haddon’s work is a self-proclaimed “distillation of all that was best about school.” (Haddon)
In 1987, Haddon wrote his first children’s book, Gilbert’s Gobstopper. This was followed by many other children’s books, which were often self-illustrated.
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Mike Summerbee
Mike Summerbee (born 15 December 1942 in Preston) is an English former footballer, who played in the successful Manchester City side of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Raised in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire where he attended Nauton Park Secondary M<odern School Summerbee made his league debut playing for Swindon Town in 1959 at the age of 16. He made more than 200 appearances for the Wiltshire club, scoring 38 goals. In 1965 Manchester City manager Joe Mercer signed Summerbee for a fee of £35,000. In his first Manchester City season Summerbee started every single match, the only Manchester City player to do so that season.
Playing on the right wing, Summerbee was one of the most influential players in the Manchester City side which won four trophies in three seasons from 1968–70. Something of a practical joker, Summerbee (or "Buzzer" as teammates nicknamed him) was also known for a fiery temperament, a trait described by teammate Francis Lee as "retaliating first". Summerbee left Manchester City in June 1975, moving to Burnley, for a £25,000 fee, after making more than 400 appearances for City.
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Monty Python
Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) was a British surreal comedy group who created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music.
The television series, broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was conceived, written and performed by members Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Loosely structured as a sketch show, but with an innovative stream-of-consciousness approach (aided by Gilliam's animation), it pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content. A self-contained comedy team responsible for both writing and performing their work, the Pythons' creative control allowed them to experiment with form and content, discarding rules of television comedy. Their influence on British comedy has been apparent for years, while in North America it has coloured the work of cult performers from the early editions of Saturday Night Live through to more recent absurdist trends in television comedy. "Pythonesque" has entered the English lexicon as a result.
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Ossie Ardiles
Osvaldo César Ardiles (born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team. He now runs his own soccer school in the UK called the Ossie Ardiles Soccer School.
A competitive and skilled midfielder, Ardiles became a cult hero in England, along with Glenn Hoddle and compatriot Ricardo Villa, as a player for Tottenham Hotspur. He left England for a period on loan as a result of the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982, thus missing most of the 1982–83 English season.
As manager of Tottenham in the mid-1990s, he played several matches utilizing a formation that had five forwards, a formation that hadn't been used in English football since the 1950s.
In Ireland he has been a pundit for RTÉ Sport.
In January 2012, newly promoted J. League Division 2 side Machida Zelvia appointed Ardiles as their manager.
As a youngster, Ardiles played football in the streets and was given the nickname Pitón (python) by his brother because of his snake-like dribbling skills. He began his professional career in Argentina with Instituto de Córdoba, alongside with Mario Alberto Kempes. He also played for Club Atlético Belgrano and Huracán. After the 1978 World Cup he moved to England to play for Tottenham where he spent ten seasons.
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Paul Bodin
Paul John Bodin (born 13 September 1964) is a former Wales international footballer. A left-back, Bodin's domestic career is probably best remembered for his two spells at Swindon Town.
Bodin began his career with Chelsea as a schoolboy, but then moved onto a brief spell with Newport County after being released. He instead joined his home town club Cardiff City and was handed his professional debut on the opening day of the 1982–83 season against Wrexham. He helped the side to promotion to Division Two in his first year, finishing as runners-up to Portsmouth. In total, he spent three seasons at Ninian Park before being released and the Welshman fell into non-league with Bath City, before returning to the Football League with Newport.
Bodin left Newport for Swindon Town in March 1988 for a fee of £30,000 as cover for Phil King - and his first few appearances for the club were terrible - leading Town fanzine Bring the Noise to describe him as being "no better than an average Conference player".
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Paul Rideout
Paul Rideout (born 14 August 1964) is an English former professional footballer and Youth team coach of Major League Soccer side Sporting Kansas City.
As a player he was a striker from 1980 until 2002, notably in the Premier League with Everton where he scored the winning goal in the 1995 FA Cup final. He also played in his native land for Swindon Town, Aston Villa, Southampton, Notts County and Tranmere Rovers. During his career he also spent time in Italy, Scotland, China and the United States with Bari, Rangers, Qianwei Huandao, Chongqing Huandao, Shenzhen Jianlibao and Kansas City Wizards. He was capped 6 times by England U21, scoring one goal.
Rideout's career began as a 16 year old at Swindon Town as their youngest ever first team player, and he finished the 1980–81 season with four goals from 16 Third Division games. He established himself as a first team player in 1981–82 by playing 35 games and scoring 14 goals, though it was not enough to save Swindon from relegation to the Fourth Division he initially decided to remain at the County Ground in order to help them win promotion. After they failed to win promotion in 1982–83, despite Rideout's 20 goals in 44 games, he was transferred to First Division club Aston Villa for £200,000 by manager Tony Barton.
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Paul Sturrock
Paul Whitehead Sturrock (born 10 October 1956 in Ellon, Aberdeenshire) is a Scottish football manager who, since July 2010, is the manager of Southend United. Until this appointment, Sturrock had most recently been at English League 1 club Plymouth Argyle in a business support role, having been relieved of his managerial duties, until he quit the club. His former posts included spells as manager of Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton, Plymouth Argyle, Dundee United, Swindon and St. Johnstone. He was also a Scotland international footballer. He is known by fans as Luggy (from the Scots language word lugs, Eng: ears). Sturrock announced in July 2008 that he was suffering from a mild form of Parkinson's disease.
His son, Blair, is also a professional footballer.
A boyhood Hearts fan, Sturrock was educated at Pitlochry primary and secondary schools and played for junior side Grandtully Vale. In 1972 he joined Vale of Atholl of the Perthshire Amateur First Division (where he returned as coach in his latter days with Dundee United), and in the 1972–73 season he scored approximately 100 goals. He then moved on to Bankfoot Athletic, and in the 1973–74 season he scored 53 goals as they finished 2nd in the Scottish Junior FA First Division.
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Roy Evans
Roy Evans CBE (born 4 October 1948 in Bootle, England) was a Liverpool football player who eventually rose through the coaching ranks to become team manager.
An England schoolboy international, Evans was a defender who was a long way down the pecking order at Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s—he also spent the summer of the 1973 in the North American Soccer League with the Philadelphia Atoms. Liverpool manager Bill Shankly saw something different in Evans, suggesting that he tried a career as a coach.
So began a long run through the rankings at Liverpool, starting as a coach under Bill Shankly, who retired in 1974 to be succeeded by assistant Bob Paisley. When Paisley retired in 1983, his own assistant Joe Fagan was promoted to the manager's seat. Fagan retired after two seasons to be succeeded by striker Kenny Dalglish (who was appointed player-manager), and Evans was now coaching under his fourth manager. When Dalglish quit in 1991, Evans found himself on the coaching staff of his fifth Liverpool manager in 18 years—Graeme Souness, a former Liverpool player who had previously been manager of Rangers.
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Saxon people
The Saxons (Latin: Saxones, Old English: Seaxe, Old Saxon: Sahson, Low German: Sassen) were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the North German plain, who during the Middle Ages migrated to the British Isles and formed part of the Anglo-Saxons.
The Saxons were originally Ingvaeonic tribes, whose earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein. This area overlapped the area of the Angles, a tribe with which they were frequently closely linked. Saxons participated in the Germanic settlement of Britain during and after the fifth century. It is unknown how many migrated from the continent to Britain, though estimates for the total number of Anglo-Saxon settlers are around two hundred thousand. During the Middle ages, because of international Hanseatic trading routes and contingent migration during the Middle Ages, Saxons mixed with and had strong influences upon the languages and cultures of the North Germanic and Baltic and Finnic peoples, and also upon the Polabian Slavs and Pomeranian West Slavic people.
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Shaun Taylor
Shaun Taylor (born 26 February 1963) is an English former professional footballer who made more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, playing for Exeter City,Swindon Town and Bristol City.
Taylor was born in Plymouth. A hard-tackling no-nonsense defender, he played non-league football for clubs including St Blazey and Bideford before moving to Exeter City in December 1986 at the age of 23. He captained Exeter to the Fourth Division championship in 1989–90, and played 200 league games for the club before moving to Swindon Town in July 1991 for a £200,000 fee. He was an ever-present as Swindon gained promotion to the Premier League in 1992–93, a season when he scored 13 goals, a high total for a defender, and played every game in their only season in the top flight. After a second relegation, he captained Swindon to the Second Division title, and became the first player to win the club's Player of the Year award three times. He played 259 games in all competitions for the club before joining Bristol City in September 1996 for £50,000.
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Steve McMahon
Stephen Joseph "Steve" McMahon (born 20 August 1961) is an English former professional footballer, manager and sports television pundit.
As a player he was a midfielder from 1979 to 1998, most notably played for Liverpool in the late 1980s. McMahon was placed in 42nd position in the 100 Players Who Shook The Kop poll, which asked Red supporters to name the best 100 players of all time. He also played for Everton, Aston Villa and Manchester City. After his playing career ended, he began his coaching and managing carrer with the Swindon Town F.C., then finished his career at Blackpool F.C.. He is currently a football pundit for the Asia-based sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports.
Halewood-born McMahon started his career at Everton, the club he supported as a boy, playing for them as a teenager after appearing at Goodison Park as a ball boy. He made his league debut on 16 August 1980 in the 3–1 defeat to Sunderland at Roker Park, he went on to be voted the supporters player of the year by the end of the 1980/81 season. His commanding presence in the Toffees midfield earned him the captaincy of the club but Everton's lack of success couldn't quench his thirst for honours, so after 4 seasons which included 100 league appearances and 11 league goals McMahon was on the move.
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Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, author, political commentator, and TV host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team.
Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales. The family home was named "Bodchwil". His father was stationed with the RAF in India. When Jones was four-and-a-half, the family moved to Surrey.
Jones was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was head boy in the 1960-61 academic year. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, but "strayed into history". He graduated with a 2:1. While there, he performed comedy with future Monty Python castmate Michael Palin in The Oxford Revue.
Jones appeared in Twice a Fortnight with Palin, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Jonathan Lynn, as well as the television series The Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969). He appeared in Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967–69) with Palin, Eric Idle and David Jason. He wrote for The Frost Report and several other David Frost programmes on British television. Along with Palin, he wrote lyrics for the 1968 Barry Booth album "Diversions".
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register (it became The Times on 1 January 1788). The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967.
The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (1838), The Straits Times (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), The Canberra Times (1926), and The Times (Malta) (1935). For distinguishing purposes it is therefore sometimes referred to, particularly in North America, as the "London Times" or "The Times of London".
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Thursday Next
Thursday Next is the main protagonist in a series of comic fantasy, alternate history novels by the British author Jasper Fforde. She was first introduced in Fforde's first published novel, The Eyre Affair, released on July 19, 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton. As of 2011[update], the series comprises six books, in two series. The first series is made up of the novels The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten. The second series is so far made up of First Among Sequels and One of Our Thursdays Is Missing.
Thursday is the daughter of Wednesday Next and Colonel Next (whose first name has not yet been revealed), a former agent with Special Operations Network department 12 (SO-12), the Chronoguard. She has two brothers, Anton and Joffy. Anton, however, was killed in the Crimean War.
In her parallel universe, England is a republic, with George Formby as its first president, elected following the success of Operation Sea Lion (the mooted Nazi invasion of Great Britain), occupation, and liberation. There is no United Kingdom, and Wales is the independent "Socialist Republic of Wales". The Crimean War is still being waged in 1985, Russia still has a Czar, and the Whig Party still exists in the House of Commons.
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SWINDON PAST & PRESENT
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- Duration: 14:31
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
A look at Swindon from today's perspective and yesteryear. Footage thanks to my father and a couple with kind permission. Music was from looperman again with permission to use. Enjoy and comment.
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A look at Swindon from today's perspective and yesteryear. Footage thanks to my father and a couple with kind permission. Music was from looperman again with permission to use. Enjoy and comment.
Swindon Town Centre
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- Duration: 11:58
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
A short clip from 'Swindon Through The Decades' - Volume 3 showing the town during its redevelopment in the 60's & 70's.
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A short clip from 'Swindon Through The Decades' - Volume 3 showing the town during its redevelopment in the 60's & 70's.
- published: 02 Oct 2011
- views: 3995
- author: Avp Studios
Stoke vs Swindon 3-4 | All Goals Full Highlights - SKY SPORTS (29-8-2012)
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- Duration: 2:25
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
A massive upset, Paolo Di Canio's side winning 4-3 in extra time, despite squandering a two goal lead at half-time. *MUST WATCH*
http://wn.com/Stoke_vs_Swindon_3-4_|_All_Goals_Full_Highlights_SKY_SPORTS_29-8-2012
A massive upset, Paolo Di Canio's side winning 4-3 in extra time, despite squandering a two goal lead at half-time. *MUST WATCH*
- published: 29 Aug 2012
- views: 20870
- author: rayazsiddiqi
1993 That's Football! - Channel 4 Swindon Town Documentary
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- Duration: 78:26
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
First broadcast in May 1994, when producer Carl Ross chose to document Swindon Town during the 1992/93 season, he originally intended to look beyond the glamour of football at an unfashionable club - instead he ended up documenting a behind the scenes view of one of the most successful seasons in the club's history in this superb programme, as STFC were promoted to the Premier League.
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First broadcast in May 1994, when producer Carl Ross chose to document Swindon Town during the 1992/93 season, he originally intended to look beyond the glamour of football at an unfashionable club - instead he ended up documenting a behind the scenes view of one of the most successful seasons in the club's history in this superb programme, as STFC were promoted to the Premier League.
- published: 08 May 2011
- views: 23372
- author: SwindonTownFCcouk
Swindon Town 4 - 1 Yeovil Town. Fans' Post-match Reaction (17 November 2012)
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
Footage shot on 17 November 2012 when Swindon Town beat Yeovil Town. Full story here www.swindonweb.com VIDEO SPONSORED BY PEBLEY BEACH, SWINDON - www.pebley.co.uk
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Footage shot on 17 November 2012 when Swindon Town beat Yeovil Town. Full story here www.swindonweb.com VIDEO SPONSORED BY PEBLEY BEACH, SWINDON - www.pebley.co.uk
- published: 17 Nov 2012
- views: 1025
- author: swindonweb
Swindon 2-1 Wigan - Official Highlights and Goals | FA Cup 3rd Round Proper 07-01-12
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- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
League Two Swindon dumped Wigan out of the FA Cup to reach the fourth round for the first time since 1996. Swindon fell behind after Callum McManaman won a penalty for Wigan and was on hand to put the ball away when Ben Watson's spot-kick hit the post. But Paolo Di Canio's side quickly drew level thanks to Alan Connell's header. Swindon secured a remarkable win when Matt Ritchie's left-footed shot took a big deflection off substitute Paul Benson to beat Ali Al Habsi. In an emotional interview with BBC Wiltshire on the touchline immediately after the final whistle, Di Canio dedicated the win to Swindon's fans and to his father, who died late last year, as supporters chanted the manager's name. Swindon, who are in the League Two play-off places, were well worth their win against a Wigan side that showed nine changes to the team that lost to Sunderland in midweek. Di Canio's men should have taken the lead as Raffaele De Vita seized on Adrian Lopez's misplaced pass and picked out Ronan Murray, only for the on-loan Ipswich striker to shoot straight at Al Habsi. Paul Caddis's deflected cross then skidded past the Wigan goalkeeper's post, while Swindon full-back Callum Kennedy tried his luck from long distance. Despite that promising start, Swindon went behind on 34 minutes after Aden Flint fouled McManaman in the area. Watson's spot-kick rebounded off the post, but McManaman reacted quickest and slipped the ball beneath Swindon keeper Wes Foderingham. To find out more about the ...
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League Two Swindon dumped Wigan out of the FA Cup to reach the fourth round for the first time since 1996. Swindon fell behind after Callum McManaman won a penalty for Wigan and was on hand to put the ball away when Ben Watson's spot-kick hit the post. But Paolo Di Canio's side quickly drew level thanks to Alan Connell's header. Swindon secured a remarkable win when Matt Ritchie's left-footed shot took a big deflection off substitute Paul Benson to beat Ali Al Habsi. In an emotional interview with BBC Wiltshire on the touchline immediately after the final whistle, Di Canio dedicated the win to Swindon's fans and to his father, who died late last year, as supporters chanted the manager's name. Swindon, who are in the League Two play-off places, were well worth their win against a Wigan side that showed nine changes to the team that lost to Sunderland in midweek. Di Canio's men should have taken the lead as Raffaele De Vita seized on Adrian Lopez's misplaced pass and picked out Ronan Murray, only for the on-loan Ipswich striker to shoot straight at Al Habsi. Paul Caddis's deflected cross then skidded past the Wigan goalkeeper's post, while Swindon full-back Callum Kennedy tried his luck from long distance. Despite that promising start, Swindon went behind on 34 minutes after Aden Flint fouled McManaman in the area. Watson's spot-kick rebounded off the post, but McManaman reacted quickest and slipped the ball beneath Swindon keeper Wes Foderingham. To find out more about the ...
- published: 08 Jan 2012
- views: 12481
- author: thefacup
Preston North End v Swindon Town 02/09/12
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- Duration: 1:12
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
Highlights from Preston's 4-1 win over Swindon & Wes Foderingham & Paolo Di Canio's bust up
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Highlights from Preston's 4-1 win over Swindon & Wes Foderingham & Paolo Di Canio's bust up
- published: 02 Sep 2012
- views: 38535
- author: danj92uk
Swindon Supermarine 0 Swindon Town 1 - Pre-Season Friendly - Paolo Di Canio Interview
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- Duration: 5:38
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
We capture action from the pre-season friendly between Swindon Town FC and Swindon Supermarine FC on 30 July 2012. We interview the crowd about the forthcoming season and interview STFC manger Paolo Di Canio. More here www.swindonweb.com
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We capture action from the pre-season friendly between Swindon Town FC and Swindon Supermarine FC on 30 July 2012. We interview the crowd about the forthcoming season and interview STFC manger Paolo Di Canio. More here www.swindonweb.com
- published: 31 Jul 2012
- views: 1999
- author: swindonweb
Ships and OTPs: The Miracle of Swindon Town #201
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- Duration: 13:43
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
In which John talks about his ships. The Swoodilypoopers take on Valencia. Follow the Swoodilypoopers on Twitter: twitter.com
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In which John talks about his ships. The Swoodilypoopers take on Valencia. Follow the Swoodilypoopers on Twitter: twitter.com
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 10623
- author: hankgames
Oxford United 1-0 Swindon 2012 Match Highlights
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Highlights from win over Swindon!
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Swindon - Wiki Article
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- Duration: 44:45
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Swindon ( pronunciation) is a large town within the Borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, 40 miles (64 km) west and Reading, 40 m... Swindon - Wiki Article - wikiplays.org Original @ http All Information Derived from Wikipedia using Creative Commons License: en.wikipedia.org Author: Dickbauch Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship., This work is in the Public Domain., This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: Unknown Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:Creative Commons ASA 3.0, This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: OS scanned by myself Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship., This work is in the Public Domain., This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: My another account Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Li...
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Swindon ( pronunciation) is a large town within the Borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, 40 miles (64 km) west and Reading, 40 m... Swindon - Wiki Article - wikiplays.org Original @ http All Information Derived from Wikipedia using Creative Commons License: en.wikipedia.org Author: Dickbauch Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship., This work is in the Public Domain., This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: Unknown Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:Creative Commons ASA 3.0, This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: OS scanned by myself Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship., This work is in the Public Domain., This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: My another account Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Li...
- published: 30 Oct 2012
- views: 280
- author: WikiPlays
BAYERN U23 vs SWINDON TOWN
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- Duration: 2:40
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
Friendly Match Bayern U23 vs Swindon Town played in Andalo
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Friendly Match Bayern U23 vs Swindon Town played in Andalo
- published: 12 Jul 2012
- views: 2448
- author: visittrentino
Di Canio thrilled with cup triumph | Swindon v Stoke City Capital One Cup
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- Duration: 5:57
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
Swindon boss Paolo Di Canio was bursting with pride after watching his side pull off a shock 4-3 extra-time victory at Stoke to book a place in the Capital One Cup third round. The npower League One team stunned their Barclays Premier League hosts by taking a 2-0 lead in the first half at the Britannia Stadium thanks to a brace from James Collins. Stoke rallied after the break as goals from Kenwyne Jones and Jon Walters took the contest into extra-time, but Swindon would not be denied as Aden Flint put them 3-2 ahead before Collins responded to Peter Crouch's equaliser by completing his hat-trick with a minute remaining. "It is obvious that when you win against a side like Stoke City away from home - in a place where teams like Arsenal and Manchester United find it difficult to score even one goal and you are playing in a fortress - it is something special," the Italian said.
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Swindon boss Paolo Di Canio was bursting with pride after watching his side pull off a shock 4-3 extra-time victory at Stoke to book a place in the Capital One Cup third round. The npower League One team stunned their Barclays Premier League hosts by taking a 2-0 lead in the first half at the Britannia Stadium thanks to a brace from James Collins. Stoke rallied after the break as goals from Kenwyne Jones and Jon Walters took the contest into extra-time, but Swindon would not be denied as Aden Flint put them 3-2 ahead before Collins responded to Peter Crouch's equaliser by completing his hat-trick with a minute remaining. "It is obvious that when you win against a side like Stoke City away from home - in a place where teams like Arsenal and Manchester United find it difficult to score even one goal and you are playing in a fortress - it is something special," the Italian said.
- published: 29 Aug 2012
- views: 3447
- author: football
Paolo Di Canio highlights - Charity Match Swindon Town XI vs Wiltshire Air Ambulance XI 12.05.2012
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
This footage - showing highlights focused on Paolo Di Canio - was taken during the charity match which was organsed by Swindon Town FC in aid of their charity of the year, the Wiltshire Air Ambulance. Nearly 3500 fans came to support the event which raised in excess of £16000 for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
http://wn.com/Paolo_Di_Canio_highlights_Charity_Match_Swindon_Town_XI_vs_Wiltshire_Air_Ambulance_XI_12052012
This footage - showing highlights focused on Paolo Di Canio - was taken during the charity match which was organsed by Swindon Town FC in aid of their charity of the year, the Wiltshire Air Ambulance. Nearly 3500 fans came to support the event which raised in excess of £16000 for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
- published: 03 May 2012
- views: 8225
- author: SwindonTownFC007
Post Match - Swindon Town FC vs Aston Villa FC 30.10.12
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- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 02 Dec 2012
This video does NOT contain any in-game video footage. This video was taken after the final whistle of the Capital One Cup game between Swindon Town FC and Aston Villa on October 30, 2012. Aston Villa progressed to the quarter final following a 2-3 win despite Swindon's comeback from 0-2 down.
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This video does NOT contain any in-game video footage. This video was taken after the final whistle of the Capital One Cup game between Swindon Town FC and Aston Villa on October 30, 2012. Aston Villa progressed to the quarter final following a 2-3 win despite Swindon's comeback from 0-2 down.
- published: 30 Oct 2012
- views: 40431
- author: SwindonTownFC007
Heartbreak: The Miracle of Swindon Town #196
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- Duration: 13:08
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
In which John talks about how to cope with a broken heart. The Swoodilypoopers play Fenerbaçhe SK.
http://wn.com/Heartbreak_The_Miracle_of_Swindon_Town_196
In which John talks about how to cope with a broken heart. The Swoodilypoopers play Fenerbaçhe SK.
- published: 26 Nov 2012
- views: 11282
- author: hankgames
Paolo Di Canio Full Interview Regarding Wes Foderingham (Preston V Swindon)
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- Duration: 4:38
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Paolo Di Canio hits the headlines again after he subs first choice goal keeper after just 20 mins! Then he calls for fans who don't like it to get the money back for season tickets and go and support Oxford!
http://wn.com/Paolo_Di_Canio_Full_Interview_Regarding_Wes_Foderingham_Preston_V_Swindon
Paolo Di Canio hits the headlines again after he subs first choice goal keeper after just 20 mins! Then he calls for fans who don't like it to get the money back for season tickets and go and support Oxford!
- published: 03 Sep 2012
- views: 37972
- author: bladesmj10
NaNoWriMo: The Miracle of Swindon Town #188
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- Duration: 12:08
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
In which John talks about National Novel Writing Month. The Swoodilypoopers take on Aston Villa. Read John's NaNoWriMo pep talk here: www.nanowrimo.org
http://wn.com/NaNoWriMo_The_Miracle_of_Swindon_Town_188
In which John talks about National Novel Writing Month. The Swoodilypoopers take on Aston Villa. Read John's NaNoWriMo pep talk here: www.nanowrimo.org
- published: 07 Nov 2012
- views: 12967
- author: hankgames
True Love: The Miracle of Swindon Town #189
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- Duration: 12:51
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
In which John answers the question of whether he believes in true love. The Swoodilypoopers play Wigan Athletic.
http://wn.com/True_Love_The_Miracle_of_Swindon_Town_189
In which John answers the question of whether he believes in true love. The Swoodilypoopers play Wigan Athletic.
- published: 09 Nov 2012
- views: 12150
- author: hankgames
Swindon Town vs Macclesfield Town 0 - 2 | FATV
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- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
Swindon Town vs Macclesfield Town 0 - 2 RESULT HT (0 - 0) FT (0 - 2) GOALS SCORED Diagne '62 Thompson '89 BOOKINGS McEveley '30 Barnes-Homer '65 Ward '64 Kissock '71 Flint '64 Roberts '71 To find out more about the The FA Cup visit: thefa.com The FA Cup on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com
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Swindon Town vs Macclesfield Town 0 - 2 RESULT HT (0 - 0) FT (0 - 2) GOALS SCORED Diagne '62 Thompson '89 BOOKINGS McEveley '30 Barnes-Homer '65 Ward '64 Kissock '71 Flint '64 Roberts '71 To find out more about the The FA Cup visit: thefa.com The FA Cup on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com
- published: 05 Nov 2012
- views: 2748
- author: thefacup
Fanfiction: The Miracle of Swindon Town #185
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- Duration: 12:16
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
In which John talks about his opinion of fanfiction. The Swoodilypoopers play Wigan Athletic.
http://wn.com/Fanfiction_The_Miracle_of_Swindon_Town_185
In which John talks about his opinion of fanfiction. The Swoodilypoopers play Wigan Athletic.
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 15470
- author: hankgames
Carling Cup Final: The Miracle of Swindon Town #147
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- Duration: 22:57
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
In which John and the Swoodilypoopers play in the Carling Cup finals against Manchester United. While battling ManU, John gives an update on just what is going on with Swindon, including details on Other John Green's recovery.
http://wn.com/Carling_Cup_Final_The_Miracle_of_Swindon_Town_147
In which John and the Swoodilypoopers play in the Carling Cup finals against Manchester United. While battling ManU, John gives an update on just what is going on with Swindon, including details on Other John Green's recovery.
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 16469
- author: hankgames
Middle East Peace Crisis: The Miracle of Swindon Town #186
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- Duration: 13:17
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
In which John talks about the situation in the Middle East. Surprisingly, this does not involve him eating five sheets of toilet paper or covering his face with peanut butter. Instead, the Swoodilypoopers take on Sunderland.
http://wn.com/Middle_East_Peace_Crisis_The_Miracle_of_Swindon_Town_186
In which John talks about the situation in the Middle East. Surprisingly, this does not involve him eating five sheets of toilet paper or covering his face with peanut butter. Instead, the Swoodilypoopers take on Sunderland.
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 9361
- author: hankgames
photo: AP / Jason DeCrow
16 Dec 2012
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage committed suicide as first responders closed in, the governor said Sunday, raising the specter that Adam Lanza had planned an even more gruesome massacre and was stopped short. Lanza blasted his way into the building and used a high-power rifle to kill 20 children and six adults, including the principal who tried to stop him, authorities said ... Among the questions ... H ... The Rev....(size: 8.8Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Most people reason dramatically, not quantitatively." -Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the same day that a 20-year-old, described as brilliant but remote, walked into an elementary school in Connecticut and massacred 26 children and adults, the school where I teach went on "lock-down." Four students with a handgun were arrested ... That morning before school, he had posted on Twitter and Facebook....(size: 14.0Kb)
photo: AP / Manu Brabo
18 Dec 2012
The UN's humanitarian chief has called on Syria to urgently allow fuel imports for aid deliveries and give access to 10 more aid agencies. Valerie Amos met government officials in the capital, Damascus, to discuss the growing humanitarian crisis. UN workers also needed to freely move into opposition-controlled areas to step up their aid efforts, she said ... 'Greater rebel contact' ... The claim could not be independently verified ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
19 Dec 2012
WASHINGTON. US President Barack Obama backs a new bill to revive an assault weapons ban and other new gun laws, the White House said Tuesday, fleshing out his nascent response to a shocking school massacre. Obama also called an ardently pro-gun senator who has shifted his position on firearms laws since Friday's carnage in Connecticut and has begun meeting top cabinet officials to consider his options, his spokesman Jay Carney said ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
photo: AP / Jason DeCrow
18 Dec 2012
An increasing number of US congressmen have called for a national dialogue about measures to curb gun violence following the shooting last week at a primary school in Connecticut that killed 26 people, including 20 children and six adults. White House officials have said that President Barack Obama would make preventing gun-related violence a priority in his second term in office and stricter laws would be part of the effort. ... ....(size: 19.2Kb)
BBC News
19 Dec 2012
Swindon Town midfielder Gary Roberts says he deserves to be dropped from the squad after a run of poor performances ... "I haven't done enough to get in the team ... Please turn on JavaScript ... He signed a two-year deal at Swindon but has struggled to maintain his fitness levels since making the move ... Swindon complete triple signing 18 Jun 2012 Swindon Roberts bullish over Robins title 26 Jul 2012 Swindon. Share this story ... print. ....(size: 3.8Kb)
noodls
19 Dec 2012
Swindon Borough Council). Swindon Borough Council is encouraging everyone to be wise with their waste this Christmas and recycle as much as possible ... Every item adds up, for example every year the UK throws out an estimated 4,500 tonnes of tin foil over the Christmas period, enough to cover around 1500 square miles - 60 times the size of Swindon....(size: 4.8Kb)
noodls
19 Dec 2012
The council also accepts Christmas trees at its Swindon Road recycling centre at any time. Christmas cards can be put into the kerbside recycling boxes, recycled at the cardboard banks at bring sites around the town or at the Swindon Road recycling centre ... The Swindon Road Recycling Centre will also open for most of the holiday period....(size: 8.0Kb)
Sky Sports
19 Dec 2012
Gary Roberts admits his first six months at Swindon have been disappointing but he is determined to turn things around ... "I think I'm my own biggest critic and I know I've been below-par personally," he told the Swindon Advertiser ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)
noodls
19 Dec 2012
(Source. BT Group plc) ... Faster broadband available to four more Wiltshire communities. 7,500 more homes and businesses in Wiltshire now benefiting from roll-out programme;. Swindon and Wiltshire initiative welcomes new development. Faster broadband is now available to 7,500 more homes and businesses in Wiltshire, BT announced today ... Ian Larrard, director, Swindon and Wiltshire Initiative, said ... ENDS. Note to Editors ... distributed by ... (noodl....(size: 4.8Kb)
Belfast Telegraph
19 Dec 2012
noodls
19 Dec 2012
(Source. Doncaster Rovers Football Club Ltd) ... ... With Rovers remaining home games including Sheffield United on New Years Day plus the visits of fellow promotion hopefuls Tranmere, Notts County and Swindon Town, Rovers fans have some exciting games ahead ... Prices for 10 game multi-package. ... distributed by ... (noodl. 17009735) ....(size: 2.3Kb)
Belfast Telegraph
19 Dec 2012
The parents of an Army medic shot in Afghanistan have said they hoped she would never be forgotten. Leslie and Rosemary Day, whose daughter Corporal Channing Day was killed during a Taliban attack in October, also said they had been heartened by the messages of support from across the world. Mrs Day said. "We were amazed by it. We could not believe the support ... Cpl Day was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and grew up in Co Down ... He said ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
BBC News
19 Dec 2012
Max Power hopes to play a big part in Tranmere's festive programme after making his first start of the season. The 19-year-old played in the 0-0 draw at Sheffield United and could be retained for Friday's trip to Swindon. Thee midfielder told BBC Radio Merseyside that he has been content to wait patiently for his chance. "James Wallace is the captain and he's been playing brilliantly all season ... Share this story ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)
Sporting Life
19 Dec 2012
BAGS BEST BET. On Your Lonesome (T3, 4.08 Hove). TODAY'S BANKER. Brer Wolf (T4, 3.48 Hove). TODAY'S TREBLE. Casani Beauty (T3, 4.27 Hove). Brer Wolf (T4) has been knocking hard on the door recently and Doreen Walsh's strong-running dog can gain a deserved success at 3.48 on the BAGS at Hove today ... Another with a good make up is On Your Lonesome (T3), who looks sure to lead up in the A6 at 4.08 ... BELLE VUE. 2.18 (5-6-2). 2.37 (3-6-1) ... SWINDON ... ....(size: 3.7Kb)
noodls
18 Dec 2012
Swindon Borough Council). A young man who has learnt how to manage his stammer to help Swindon children with similar problems has picked up two awards ... Jack, 18, was nominated for the awards by speech therapists from Swindon Borough Council, following his work with The Fluency Trust, a local charity that works with the council to provide residential courses for young people between the ages of 10 and 17 who stammer....(size: 4.5Kb)
BBC News
18 Dec 2012
Manager Paul Dickov has demanded a response from his Oldham squad after accusing them of a lack of desire and professionalism against Swindon ... Oldham, who are 16th in League One ahead of Saturday's trip to Yeovil, went into the Swindon game having won four of their previous five matches ... Oldham 0 - 2 Swindon 15 Dec 2012 League One....(size: 2.1Kb)
noodls
18 Dec 2012
Swindon Borough Council) ... The Swindon Community Safety Partnership has teamed up with other agencies and community partners to send out a strong message to young people who will be celebrating this Christmas ... Julie Northcott, Swindon Borough Council's Strategic Planning & Commissioning Manager for Sexual Health and Teenage Pregnancy, said ... This noodl was issued by Swindon Borough Council and was initially posted at www.swindon.gov.uk....(size: 4.1Kb)
For the local government district, see Borough of Swindon. For other uses, see Swindon (disambiguation).
Coordinates: 51°34′N 1°47′W / 51.56°N 1.78°W / 51.56; -1.78
| Swindon | |
 The David Murray John Tower overlooking the Mechanics' Institute |
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 Swindon
Swindon shown within Wiltshire |
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| Population | 155,432 |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference | SU152842 |
| - London | 81 miles (130 km) |
| Unitary authority | Borough of Swindon |
| Ceremonial county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SWINDON |
| Postcode district | SN1-6, SN25, SN26 |
| Dialling code | 01793 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | North Swindon |
| South Swindon | |
| List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire | |
Swindon ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a large town within the Borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is situated midway between Bristol, 40 miles (64 km) west and Reading, 40 miles (64 km) east. London is 81 miles (130 km) to the east. In the 2001 census, the population of the Swindon urban area was 155,432, while the wider borough of Swindon had a population of 184,000.
Swindon was named an Expanded Town under the Town Development Act 1952 and this led to a major increase in its population.[1] Swindon railway station is on the line from London Paddington to Bristol. Swindon Borough Council, is a unitary authority independent of Wiltshire Council since 1997. Residents of Swindon are known as Swindonians. Swindon is home to the Bodleian Library's book depository, which contains 153 miles (246 km) of bookshelves.[2]
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History[link]
Main article: History of Swindon
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Early history[link]
The original Saxon settlement of Swindon sat in a defensible position atop a limestone hill. It is referred to in the Domesday Book as Suindune, believed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon words "swine" and "dun" meaning pig hill or possibly, Sweyn's hill, where Sweyn would be the local landlord.
Swindon was a small market town, mainly for barter trade, until roughly 1848. This original market area is on top of the hill in central Swindon, now known as Old Town.[3]
The Industrial Revolution was responsible for an acceleration of Swindon's growth. It started with the construction of the Wilts and Berks Canal in 1810 and the North Wilts Canal in 1819. The canals brought trade to the area and Swindon's population started to grow.
Railway town[link]
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Between 1841 and 1842, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Swindon Works was built for the repair and maintenance of locomotives on the Great Western Railway (GWR). The GWR built a small railway village to house some of its workers. The Steam Railway Museum and English Heritage, including the National Monuments Record, now occupy part of the old works. In the village were the GWR Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon Road, and the 1892 health centre in Milton Road – which housed clinics, a pharmacy, laundries, baths, Turkish baths and swimming pools – was almost opposite.
From 1871, GWR workers had a small amount deducted from their weekly pay and put into a healthcare fund – its doctors could prescribe them or their family members free medicines or send them for medical treatment. In 1878 the fund began providing artificial limbs made by craftsmen from the carriage and wagon works, and nine years later opened its first dental surgery. In his first few months in post the dentist extracted more than 2000 teeth. From the opening in 1892 of the Health Centre, a doctor could also prescribe a haircut or even a bath. The cradle-to-grave extent of this service was later used as a blueprint for the NHS.[4]
The Mechanics' Institute, formed in 1844, moved into a building looking rather like a church and included a covered market, on 1 May 1855. The New Swindon Improvement Company, a co-operative, raised the funds for this path self-improvement and paid the GWR £40 a year for its new home on a site at the heart of the railway village. It was a groundbreaking organisation that transformed the railway's workforce into some of the country's best-educated manual workers.[5]
It had the UK's first lending library,[6] and a range of improving lectures, access to a theatre and a range of activities from ambulance classes to xylophone lessons. A former Institute secretary formed the New Swindon Co-operative Society in 1853 which, after a schism in the society's membership, spawned the New Swindon Industrial Society that ran a retail business from a stall in the market at the Institute. The Institute also nurtured pioneering trades unionists and encouraged local democracy.[7]
When tuberculosis hit the new town, the Mechanics’ Institute persuaded the industrial pioneers of North Wiltshire to agree that the railway's former employees should continue to receive medical attention from the doctors of GWR Medical Society Fund, which the Institute had played a role in establishing and funding.[8]
Swindon's ‘other’ railway, the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway, merged with the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway to form the Midland & South Western Junction Railway, which set out to join the London & South Western Railway with the Midland Railway at Cheltenham. The Swindon, Marlborough & Andover had planned to tunnel under the hill on which Swindon's Old Town stands but the money ran out and the railway ran into Swindon Town railway station, off Devizes Road in the Old Town, skirting the new town to the west, intersecting with the GWR at Rushey Platt and heading north for Cirencester, Cheltenham and the LMS, whose 'Midland Red' livery the M&SWJR adopted.
During the second half of the 19th century, Swindon New Town grew around the main line between London and Bristol. In 1900, the original market town, Old Swindon, merged with its new neighbour at the bottom of the hill to become a single town.[3]
On 1 July 1923, the GWR took over the largely single-track M&SWJR and the line northwards from Swindon Town was diverted to Swindon Junction station, leaving the Town station with only the line south to Andover and Salisbury.[9][10][11] The last passenger trains on what had been the SM&A ran on 10 September 1961, 80 years after the railway's first stretch opened.
During the first half of the 20th century, the railway works was the town's largest employer and one of the biggest in the country, employing more than 14,500 workers. Alfred Williams[12] (1877–1930) wrote about his life as a hammerman at the works.[13]
The works' decline started in 1960, when it rolled out Evening Star, the last steam engine to be built in the UK.[14] The works lost its locomotive building role and took on rolling stock maintenance for British Rail. In the late 1970s, much of the works closed and the rest followed in 1986.
Modern period[link]
David Murray John, Swindon's town clerk from 1938 to 1974, is seen as a pioneering figure in Swindon's post-war regeneration; his last act before retirement was to sign the contract for Swindon's tallest building, which is now named after him.[15]
In February 2008 The Times named Swindon as one of "The 20 best places to buy a property in Britain".[16] Only Warrington had a lower ratio of house prices to household income in 2007, with the average household income in Swindon among the highest in the country.
In October 2008 Swindon made a controversial move to ban fixed point speed cameras. The move was branded as reckless by some[17] but by November 2008 Portsmouth, Walsall and Birmingham councils[18][19] were also considering the move.
In 2001 construction began on Priory Vale, the third and final instalment in Swindon's 'Northern Expansion' project, which began with Abbey Meads and continued at St Andrew's Ridge. In 2002 the New Swindon Company was formed with the remit of regenerating the town centre, to improve Swindon's regional status.[20] The main areas targeted are Union Square, The Promenade, The Hub, Swindon Central, North Star Village, The Campus and the Public Realm.
Governance[link]
Further information: History of government in Swindon
The local council was created in 1974 as the Borough of Thamesdown, out of Swindon Borough and Highworth Rural Councils. It was not initially called Swindon, because the borough covers a larger area than the town and encompasses villages and land. It was eventually renamed to Borough of Swindon in 1997, however. The borough became a unitary authority on 1 April 1997,[21] following a review by Local Government Commission for England. The town is therefore no longer under the auspices of Wiltshire Council.
The borough consists of parished and non-parished areas. Parished areas include Bishopstone and Hinton Parva, Blunsdon St Andrew, Castle Eaton, Chiseldon, Covingham, Hannington, Haydon Wick, Highworth, Inglesham, Liddington, South Marston, Stanton Fitzwarren, Stratton St Margaret, Wanborough and Wroughton.
The executive comprises a leader and a cabinet made up from the Conservative Group. The council as of the 2011 election has a majority of Conservative councillors.[22]
Swindon is represented in the national parliament by two MPs. Robert Buckland (Conservative) was elected for the South Swindon seat in May 2010 with a 5.5% swing from Labour and Justin Tomlinson, also Conservative, represents North Swindon after a 10.1% swing at the same election. Prior to 1997, there was a single seat for Swindon, although much of what is now in Swindon was then in the Devizes seat.
2001 Boundary Commission Changes: NORTH SWINDON COUNTY CONSTITUENCY (67,106). Eleven wards of the Borough of Swindon:- Abbey Meads, Blunsdon, Covingham and Nythe, Gorse Hill and Pinehurst, Haydon Wick, Highworth, Moredon, Penhill, St Margaret, St Philip, Western. SOUTH SWINDON COUNTY CONSTITUENCY (70,794). Eleven wards of the Borough of Swindon:- Central, Dorcan, Eastcott, Freshbrook and Grange Park, Old Town and Lawn, Parks, Ridgeway, Shaw and Nine Elms, Toothill and Westlea, Walcot, Wroughton and Chiseldon. [1]
Geography[link]
See also: List of places in Swindon
The town has an area of approximately 40 km² (25.33 mi²).
Swindon has a temperate climate, with roughly equal length winters and summers. The landscape is dominated by the chalk hills of the Wiltshire Downs to the south and east. The hill that makes up what is known as Old Town consists of Purbeck and Portland stone; this was quarried from Roman times up until the 1950s.[23] The area that was known as New Swindon is made up of mostly Kimmeridge clay with outcrops of Corrallian clay in the areas of Penhill and Pinehurst.[23] Oxford clay makes up the rest of the borough.[23] The River Ray forms the town's western boundary, including its tributary of the River Cole.[23]
- Nearby towns and cities: Chippenham, Royal Wootton Bassett, Cirencester, Cricklade, Highworth, Marlborough, Malmesbury and Calne
- Nearby villages: Aldbourne, Badbury, Blunsdon, Chiseldon, Hook, Lambourn, Liddington, Lydiard Millicent, Purton, Ramsbury, South Marston, Wanborough, Washpool and Wroughton
- Nearby places of interest: Avebury, Barbury Castle, Crofton Pumping Station, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge and Uffington White Horse
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Swindon include — Coate Water, Great Quarry, Haydon Meadow, Okus Quarry, Old Town Railway Cutting and Lydiard Country Park
Climate[link]
Swindon experiences a maritime climate type, as with all of the British Isles. This results in comparatively mild winters, and comparatively cool summers compared with what might otherwise be expected of its latitude. The nearest official weather station is RAF Lyneham, about 9 miles (14 km) west south west of Swindon town centre. The weather station's elevation is 145 metres, compared to the typical 100 metres encountered around Swindon town centre, so is likely to be marginally cooler throughout the year.
The absolute maximum is 34.9c (94.8f)[24] recorded during August 1990. In an average year the warmest day should reach 28.7c (83.7f)[25] and 10.3 days[26] should register a temperature of 25.1c (77.2f) or above
The absolute minimum is −16.0c (3.0f),[27] recorded in January 1982, and in an average year 45.2 nights of air frost can be expected.
Sunshine, at 1565 hours a year is typical for inland parts in much of Southern England, although significantly higher than most areas further north.
Annual rainfall averages slightly under 720 mm (28 in) per year with 123 days reporting over 1 mm of rain.
| Climate data for Lyneham, elevation 145m, 1971–2000, extremes 1960– | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.7 (56.7) |
16.6 (61.9) |
20.0 (68.0) |
25.3 (77.5) |
26.6 (79.9) |
32.7 (90.9) |
34.4 (93.9) |
34.9 (94.8) |
28.8 (83.8) |
24.9 (76.8) |
16.5 (61.7) |
14.4 (57.9) |
34.9 (94.8) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 6.6 (43.9) |
6.9 (44.4) |
9.4 (48.9) |
12.0 (53.6) |
15.7 (60.3) |
18.5 (65.3) |
21.2 (70.2) |
20.7 (69.3) |
17.7 (63.9) |
13.6 (56.5) |
9.6 (49.3) |
7.4 (45.3) |
13.3 (55.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 1.2 (34.2) |
1.0 (33.8) |
2.6 (36.7) |
3.7 (38.7) |
6.7 (44.1) |
9.7 (49.5) |
11.9 (53.4) |
11.8 (53.2) |
9.8 (49.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
3.7 (38.7) |
2.1 (35.8) |
6.0 (42.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −16 (3) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−8 (18) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
0.6 (33.1) |
3.8 (38.8) |
5.0 (41.0) |
1.5 (34.7) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−14 (7) |
−16 (3) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 70.1 (2.76) |
50.6 (1.992) |
58.3 (2.295) |
47.7 (1.878) |
51.8 (2.039) |
58.5 (2.303) |
47.2 (1.858) |
56.1 (2.209) |
63.9 (2.516) |
70.4 (2.772) |
66.9 (2.634) |
77.4 (3.047) |
719.0 (28.307) |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 55.2 | 72.3 | 108.5 | 156.9 | 196.2 | 194.1 | 212.4 | 197.5 | 144.6 | 107.3 | 71.7 | 48.4 | 1,565.0 |
| Source no. 1: Met Office[28] | |||||||||||||
| Source no. 2: KNMI[29] | |||||||||||||
Demography[link]
The 2001 census shows there were 180,061 people and 75,154 occupied houses in the Swindon Unitary Authority.[30] The average household size was 2.38 people. The population density was 780/km² (2020.19/mi²). 20.96% of the population were 0–15 years old, 72.80% 16–74 and the remaining 6.24% were 75 years old or over. For every 100 females there were 98.97 males. Approximately 300,000 people live within 20 minutes of Swindon town centre.
It is forecast that there will be a 70,000 (38.9%) increase in Swindon's population by 2026 from the current 180,000, to 250,000.[31] The ethnic make-up of the town was 95.2% white, 1.3% Indian and 3.5% other. 92.4% were born in the UK, 2.7% in the EU and 4.9% elsewhere.
The majority of Swindonians (70.3%) identify themselves as Christians. This is followed by those of no religion (19.2%), Muslims (1.0%), Sikhs (0.6%), Hindus (0.6%), other (0.2%) and Jews (0.1%). In addition, 8.0% of people chose not to answer this question in the 2001 census.[32]
In May 2007, 65.3% of households in Swindon had broadband Internet access, the highest in the UK, up 5.5% from June 2006.[33]
A 2007 report by Endsleigh Insurance says it was the second safest place to live in the UK after Guildford, Surrey.[34] This was based on the number of insurance claims made and burglaries and accidents reported. Endsleigh said: "Swindon is a great example of where local authorities, working hand in hand with the community, have played a key role in bringing down crime."[34]
Polish community[link]
After the end of World War II, Polish refugees were temporarily housed in barracks at Fairford RAF base about 25 km (16 mi) north. Around 1950, some settled in Scotland and others in Swindon[35] rather than stay in the barracks or hostels they were offered.[36]
The 2001 UK Census found that most of the Polish-born people had stayed or returned after serving with British forces during World War II. Swindon and Nottingham were parts of this settlement.[37] Data from that census showed that 566 Swindonians were Poland-born.[38] Notes to those data read: ‘The Polish Resettlement Act of 1947, which was designed to provide help and support to people who wished to settle here, covered about 190,000 people ... at the time Britain did not recognise many of the professional [qualifications] gained overseas ... [but] many did find work after the war; some went down the mines, some worked on the land or in steel works. Housing was more of a problem and many Poles were forced to live in barracks previously used for POWs ... The first generation took pains to ensure that their children grew up with a strong sense of Polish identity.’
In 2004, NHS planners devising services for senior citizens estimated that 5 percent of Swindon's population were not ‘ethnically British’[39] and most of those were culturally Polish.
The town's Polish ex-servicemen's club, which had run a football team for 40 years, closed in 2007. Barman Jerzy Trojan blamed the decline of both club and team on the children and grandchildren of the original refugees losing their Polish identity.[40]
Economy[link]
Major employers include the Honda of the UK Manufacturing car production plant at an old Vickers factory site on the former World War II RAF base of South Marston, BMW/Mini (formerly Pressed Steel Fisher) in Stratton, mobile phone company Motorola, Dolby Labs, international engineering consultancy firm Halcrow Group Limited and retailer W H Smith's distribution centre and headquarters. The electronics company, Intel, has its European head office on the south side of the town. Insurance and financial services companies such as Nationwide Building Society and Zurich Financial Services, the energy company RWE (which includes the well known retail brand npower), the fuel card and fleet management company Arval, pharmaceutical companies such as Canada's Patheon and the United States-based Catalent Pharma Solutions and French Vygon have their UK divisions headquartered in the town. Swindon also has the registered Head Office of the National Trust.
Swindon businesses include banks such as Barclays, Natwest, HSBC, Lloyds TSB and Handelsbanken, all having a commercial presence. The town also has a number of professional legal firms such as Clarke Holt, Thring Townsend, Lemon & Co, together with accountants such as Dennis & Turnbull and RSM Tenon and IT companies including Emnico Technologies and iSys Intelligent Systems.
Other employers include all but one of the national Research Councils, the British Computer Society, Alcatel-Lucent, eCommerce provider Shopatron, divisions of Tyco International, consumer goods supplier Reckitt Benckiser and a branch of Becton Dickinson.
Transport[link]
Main article: Transport in Swindon
At the junction of two Roman roads, the town has developed over the centuries, with the assistance of the GWR and the canals, into a transport hub. It has two junctions (15 and 16) onto the M4 motorway and is on the ex-GWR main line to London.
Swindon railway station opened in 1842 as Swindon Junction, and, until 1895, every train stopped for at least 10 minutes to change locomotives. As a result, the station hosted the first recorded railway refreshment rooms.[41]
Swindon bus operators are Thamesdown and Stagecoach. The local council acknowledges the need for more car parking as part of its vision for 2010.[42] Swindon is one of the locations for an innovative scheme called Car share. It was set up as a joint venture between Wiltshire County Council and a private organization which now has over 300,000 members registered. Despite the name, however, it is a carpool or ride-sharing rather than a car share scheme, seeking to link people willing to share transport.
The town contains a roundabout called Magic Roundabout. This is not one roundabout but five, the central point of which is a contra-rotational hub,[43] on at the junction of five roads: (clockwise from South) Drove Road, Fleming Way, County Road, Shrivenham Road and Queens Drive. It is built on the site of Swindon wharf on the abandoned Wilts & Berks Canal, near the County Ground. The official name used to be County Islands, although it was colloquially known as the Magic Roundabout and the name was changed in the late 1990s to match its nickname.
Tourism and recreation[link]
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Events[link]
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- Swindon hosted Radio 1's Big Weekend in May 2009 at Lydiard Park
- The town has a live music scene, venues such as The Beehive, Riffs Bar, The 12 Bar, The Furnace and The Victoria attract local acts as well as touring national acts and host Swindon's annual music festival the Swindon Shuffle.[44] The Oasis Leisure Centre and the County Ground are used for some major events. MECA is a new 2,000-capacity music venue in the former Mecca bingo hall.
- The Arts Centre is a theatre in Old Town which seats 200 and has music, professional and amateur theatre, comedians, films, children's events, and one-man shows.
- The Wyvern Theatre has film, comedy, and music.
- Swindon hosts festivals such as the Swindon Festival of Literature, the nationally known Swindon Invincible festival, the annual Swindon Mela (an all-day celebration of South Indian arts and culture) in the Town Gardens — an event which attracts up to 10,000 visitors each year.[45] The Big Arts Day is an annual celebration of the arts, that started in 2010, and is set to continue year on year. Held at Lydiard Park in July it attracted more than 20,000 people.[citation needed]
- In 2012 'Swindon: The Opera' will be staged at Steam in Swindon by the Janice Thompson Performance Trust,[46] after a successful 2011 Jubilee People's Millions Lottery bid. It will chart Swindon's history since 1952 until the present day and be written by Betty Roe MBE and Matt Fox.
Shopping[link]
- The Brunel Centre and the Parade are shopping areas in the town centre, built along the line of the filled-in Wilts and Berks Canal (where a canal milepost can still be seen).
- Swindon Tented Market located in the Town Centre, close to the Brunel Centre, was built in 1994. It reopened in October 2009, having been closed for several years.
- Retail parks include Greenbridge, West Swindon Shopping Centre, Stratton and the Orbital Shopping Park with shops ranging from Marks & Spencer to Comet and Mothercare. Food outlets include KFC Pizza Hut as well as Frankie and Bennies and Starbucks Coffee.
- McArthur Glen Designer Outlet is an indoor shopping mall for reduced price goods (mainly clothing), using the buildings of the disused railway engine works. The outlet is adjacent to the Steam Museum and the National Trust headquarters. The Swindon Designer Outlet has around 100 shops and is the biggest covered designer outlet centre in Europe.
- Craft shops within Studley Grange Craft Village, inside Blooms Garden Centre, just off junction 16 of the M4 motorway.
- Small specialist shops within BSS House in Cheney Manor Industrial Park and Basepoint Business Centre.
Green spaces[link]
- Public parks include Lydiard Country Park, Stanton Park, Barbury Castle, Queens Park, Town Gardens and Coate Water.
- Shaw Country Park currently being developed in West Swindon.
Other[link]
- The National Monuments Record Centre, the public archive of English Heritage, is based in Swindon.
Media[link]
Print[link]
Swindon has a daily newspaper, the Swindon Advertiser, with daily sales of about 21,000. Other newspapers covering the area include Bristol's daily Western Daily Press and the Swindon Advertisers weekly, the Gazette and Herald. ' The Wiltshire Ocelot (a free listings magazine), Swindon Star, Hungry Monkeys' (a comic), Stratton Outlook, Frequency (an arts and cultural magazine), The Great Swindon Magazine, the Swindon Business News and The Swindon Link (for information on the goings on in Swindon).
Radio[link]
Local radio stations include More Radio (Swindon) and Heart Wiltshire in the commercial sector, with BBC Radio Wiltshire as a publicly funded alternative. A new community radio station was launched in March 2008, Swindon 105.5, which is one of the only stations in Swindon to broadcast local content all week. Brunel FM ceased broadcasting on the 24 March 2010 as it was one of five stations owned by YMC Ltd closed by administrators. Although a new radio station has since opened on the same frequency, 107.7 Total Star FM which in June 2011 rebranded to the current station More FM.
Television[link]
Between 1973 and June 2000, Swindon had its own cable television channel. It was called Swindon Viewpoint, a community television project run mainly by enthusiasts from the basement of a Radio Rentals branch on Victoria Road. It was followed by the more commercial Swindon's Local Channel, which included pay-per-view films.[47] NTL (later Virgin Media) took over the channel's parent company, ComTel, and closed the station.
Regional news programmes covering Swindon include Thames Valley Tonight replaced by "Meridian Ton" for the second time in Feb 2009 and The West Tonight from regional ITV1 stations and South Today (Oxford) and Points West from BBC One's regional variants.
Education[link]
Swindon has 53 primary schools, 11 secondary schools and two purpose built sixth-form colleges. Two secondary schools also have 6th forms.
- St. Joseph's Catholic College, a Business & Enterprise College, holds specialist status. It houses an inbuilt 6th form, submitting up to 150 students.
- Churchfields School holds dual specialist Science College and Maths and Computing College status.
- Commonweal School holds specialist Arts College status.
- Greendown Community School holds dual specialist Sports College and Maths and Computing College status.
- Nova Hreod College holds dual specialist Science College and Maths and Computing College status. Nova Hreod is planning to open a sixth form college in 2012.
- Dorcan Technology College holds specialist Technology College status.
- Kingsdown School holds specialist Technology College status.
- Isambard Community School was opened in September 2007 with an intake of only Year 7 (11–12 year olds) now taking up to year 11. The school is a Performing Arts College.It is situated within the mass housing development of Priory Vale.
- Swindon Academy was established in 2007 and holds specialist status in Science and Business & Enterprise.
- The Ridgeway School and Sixth Form College, situated in the nearby village of Wroughton, holds Science Specialist Status. The school converted to Academy status in September 2011.
Further education[link]
New College and Swindon College cater for the town's further education and higher education requirements, mainly for 16–21 year olds. Swindon College is one of the largest FE-HE colleges in southwestern England, situated at a purpose-built campus in North Star, Swindon.
Swindon also has a foundation learning programme called Include, which is situated in the Gorse Hill area. This is for 16–19 year olds who are currently not in education or work.
University-level education[link]
The University of Bath in Swindon was established in 2000, with its Oakfield Campus in Walcot, east Swindon, although the campus has now closed.
Oxford Brookes University's Ferndale site is based in Swindon, housing its School of Health and Social Care since 1999.
Swindon is the UK's largest centre of population without its own university (by comparison, there are two universities in nearby Bath, which is half Swindon's size). In March 2008, a proposal was put forward by former Swindon MP, Anne Snelgrove, for a university-level institution to be established in the town within a decade, culminating in a future 'University of Swindon' (with some touting the future institution to be entitled 'The Murray John University, Swindon', after the town's most distinguished post-war civic leader). In October 2008, plans were announced for a possible University of Swindon campus to be built in east Swindon to the south of the town's Great Western Hospital, close to the M4-A419 interchange. However, these plans are currently mothballed.
Museums and cultural institutions[link]
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- Artsite Ltd. The Post Modern gallery.Contemporary art organisation providing affordable studio space, exhibitions, workshops, education and support for creative people.
- National Museum of Science & Industry, Wroughton.
- Railway Village Museum.
- Richard Jefferies Museum, dedicated to the memory of one of England's most individual writers on nature and the countryside.
- Steam Railway Museum.
- Swindon Collection, Central Library. Extensive local studies and family history archive.
- Swindon Arts Centre, a 212-seat entertainment venue located in the Old Town of Swindon.
- Wyvern Theatre, the town's principal stage venue.[citation needed]
- Swindon Museum and Swindon Art Gallery, next to each other.
- The Museum of Computing the first computer museum in the UK.
Sports[link]
Football[link]
Swindon Town F.C. play at the County Ground near the town centre. They have been Football League members since joining the then new Third Division (southern section) in 1920, and won promotion to the Second Division for the first time in 1963. They won their only major trophy to date, the Football League Cup, in 1969 beating Arsenal 3-1, at Wembley Stadium, and won the Anglo-Italian Cup the following year as the Football Association forbade Swindon from competing in the European Cup because they were in Division 3. They won promotion to the First Division in 1990, but stayed in the Second Division due to financial irregularities, only to reach the top flight (by then the Premier League) three years later. Their spell in the top flight lasted just one season, and then came a second successive relegation. A brief spite saw them promoted at the first attempt as champions of the new Division Two, but they were relegated again four years later and in 2006 fell back into the fourth tier for the first time since 1986, although promotion was gained at the first attempt. They were relegated again four years later. Notable former players of the club include John Trollope, Don Rogers, John Moncur, Fraser Digby, Duncan Shearer, Paul Bodin, Alan McLoughlin, Paul Rideout, Mike Summerbee, Shaun Taylor, Jan Åge Fjørtoft and Phil King. Notable former managers include Lou Macari, Ossie Ardiles, Glenn Hoddle, John Gorman, Steve McMahon, Jimmy Quinn (a former player of the club), Colin Todd, Roy Evans, Andy King, Dennis Wise and Paul Sturrock.
The town also has two non league clubs: Swindon Supermarine F.C., playing in Southern League Premier Division, and Highworth Town F.C., based in Highworth and playing in the Hellenic Football League.
Motor sports[link]
- Swindon Robins — a speedway team competing in the Elite League. The team has operated at the Abbey Stadium, Blunsdon since the mid-1949. There are proposals to redevelop the stadium. Speedway operated at a track in the Gorse Hill area of Swindon in the early days of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
- Foxhill motocross circuit is 6 miles (9.7 km) south east of the town and has staged Grand Prix events.
Other sports[link]
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- Swindon Wildcats, Swindon Top Cats and Swindon Panthers are ice hockey teams who play at the 1250 capacity Link Centre ice rink.
- MB Swindon- Mountain biking club and local trail builders
- Swindon Rail Road Rebels – Swindon Roller Derby. Swindon and Wiltshire's first and only roller derby league, established January 2011. Training at The Link Centre, Oasis and Highworth Recreation Centre.
- Swindon Flames is an inline skater hockey team who train at Dorcan Sports Centre.
- Swindon Sonics is a basketball team who compete at the Link Centre.
- Swindon St George ARLFC—Amateur Rugby League club.
- Swindon RFC—Amateur Rugby Union club.
- Supermarine RFC – Amateur Rugby Union club
- Swindon Hockey Club—Amateur field hockey club.
- Swindon Road Club—cycling club.
- Gliding clubs are at Sandhill Farm near Shrivenham and Aston Down airfield near Cirencester.
- Swindon Badminton Club is based at Isambard Kingdom Brunel school and plays matches at New College.
- Two leisure centres, the Link Centre and the Oasis.
- Broome Manor Golf Complex is a golf course set against the backdrop of the Marlborough Downs.
- Milton Road Health Hydro has a 33m pool and a 20m pool both used for casual and club swimming.
- Swindon ASC – The 3rd oldest swimming club in the country
- Swindon Dolphin Amateur Swimming Association
- Swindon Tigersharks Swimming Club
- Wroughton ASC Swimming Club
- Sx3 a joint swimming club combining swindon Tigersharks with Wroughton ASC, Highworth ASC, Wootton Bassett ASC and Swindon ASC clubs. formerly including Swindon Dolphins
- Swindon Sword Fencing Club is a three weapon fencing club
Twin towns[link]
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Swindon has been twinned with two towns [2]:
As part of a competition run by Disney for 2010[49] Swindon had an official twinning with
Walt Disney World Florida, USA, since 2009[50][51]
In popular culture[link]
Books set in Swindon include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, and the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde. Fforde's Thursday Next novels feature an alternative-universe Swindon that includes a parodic "Seven Wonders of Swindon". Robert Goddard's Into the Blue, Out of the Sun and "Never Go Back" feature the central character of Harry Barnett from Swindon, and all three novels start in the town. Terry Jones, the former Monty Python member gave Swindon a backhanded reference in one of the short stories in his 2011 collection, "Evil Machines". The story "The Lift that Took People to Places They Didn't Want to Go" ends with the section "...But actually... the evil elevator hadn't changed at all. In fact it went on secretly taking people to places they didn't want to go. For every time the lift took the inhabitants of Swindon back down to the ground floor, they stepped out of the department store and onto the streets of Swindon, and so found themselves somewhere they didn't want to be."
Notable people[link]
Main article: List of people from Swindon
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Swindon: Total Population". A Vision of Britain through time. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10104178&c_id=10001043&add=N. Retrieved 2007-01-09.
- ^ "Vast bookstore opens as famed library runs out of space". BBC News. 6 October 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11484494.
- ^ a b John Chandler, Swindon Decoded, The Hobnob Press 2005, ISBN 0-946418-37-3.
- ^ ‘’Background’’ – New Mechanics Institution Preservation Society. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ 1850 – New Mechanics Institution Preservation Trust, Swindon. Retrieved on 23 July 2007.
- ^ Background – New Mechanics Institution Preservation Trust, Swindon. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ This is Our Heritage — 1996 lecture by Swindon labour movement historian Trevor Cockbill. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ Background – New Mechanics Institution Preservation Society. Retrieved 2007-07-23. Archived September 29, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Swindon's Other Railway — the Swindon, Marlborough & Andover Railway. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ The Midland & South Western Junction Railway, Railspot Reloaded.Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ GWR Museum picture gallery. Retrieved on 2007-07-23
- ^ Leonard Clark, Alfred Williams – His Life and Work, David and Charles 1969
- ^ Alfred Williams, Life in a railway factory, first published 1915, 2007 edition published by Sutton Publishing ISBN 978-0-7509-4660-5
- ^ Evening Star — Steam Locomotive, BBC, 29 November 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
- ^ "SwindonWeb - Brunel Tower David Murray John". swindonweb.com. http://www.swindonweb.com/?m=8&s=115&ss=462&c=1168&t=The%20David%20Murray%20John%20. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ^ The 20 best places to buy a property in Britain, The Times, Property pages, February 2008]
- ^ More councils expected to ban speed cameras, The Times, October 2008.
- ^ http://www.bigredl.co.uk/Swindonbansspeedcameras.htm
- ^ Weaver, Matthew (2008-10-23). "More councils expected to ban speed cameras". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/23/localgovernment-motoring. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ New Swindon.
- ^ The Wiltshire (Borough of Thamesdown)(Structural Change) Order 1995
- ^ "BBC News – Election 2011" (BBC News)accessed 6 May 2011
- ^ a b c d "Geology". A history of Swindon to 1965. Wiltshire Library & Museum Service. 1983. ISBN 0-86080-107-1.
- ^ "1990 August maximum". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=14&year=1990&indexid=TXx&stationid=1872. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
- ^ "1971-00 Annual average warmest day". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=TXx&stationid=1872. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
- ^ "1971-00 >25c days". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=SU&stationid=1872. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
- ^ "1982 minimum". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=7&year=1982&indexid=TNn&stationid=1872. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
- ^ "Climate Normals 1971–2000". MetOffice. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/19712000/sites/lyneham.html. Retrieved 28 feb 2011.
- ^ "Climate Normals 1971–2000". KNMI. http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=SS&stationid=1860. Retrieved 28 feb 2011.
- ^ "Swindon UA". Census 2001. Office of National Statistics. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00HX-A.asp. Retrieved 2007-01-09.
- ^ "Vision proposes 35,000 new homes". BBC News. 2006-07-28. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/5223288.stm. Retrieved 2007-01-09.
- ^ http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00HX.asp#ethnic
- ^ Swindon and Milton Keynes top the UK broadband league – Computer Weekly, London, 23 May 2007. Accessed:2007-08-21.
- ^ a b "Swindon is second safest town in the UK". Swindon Advertiser. 2007-05-28. http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindonnewsheadlines/display.var.1430363.0.swindon_is_second_safest_town_in_the_uk.php. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
- ^ Community celebrates its golden anniversary, Swindon Advertiser, 31 May 2000.Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ Polish club closes doors for last time – Swindon Advertiser, 1 April 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-24
- ^ Born Abroad, BBC News.Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ – Polish Community Focus Multicultural Matters.Retrieved on 2007-07-23
- ^ Modernising Services for Older People in Swindon– Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Swindon Primary Care Trust and Swindon Borough Council.Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
- ^ Polish club closes doors for last time – Swindon Advertiser, 1 April 2007. Retrieved on 2007-27-24.
- ^ LTC Rolt, Isambard Kingdom Brumel, Penguin 1957.
- ^ "Car Parking — General Information". Transport & Streets. Swindon Borough Council. http://www.swindon.gov.uk/roadstransport/roadsandtransport-carparkinggeneral-link. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ Aerial view from Google maps
- ^ Richard Craven (2007-07-26). "Swindon Shuffle 2007 — A Retrospective". BBC Wiltshire. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2007/07/04/swindon_shuffle_2007_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2007-07-26.
- ^ Swindon Mela.
- ^ [www.jtptrust.org]
- ^ Swindon Cable — Swindon View Point — The Local Channel, Swindoncable.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
- ^ a b "Twin Towns". Swindon Borough Council. http://www.swindon.gov.uk/twintowns. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
- ^ Walt Disney Twinned Town
- ^ "BBC". BBC News. 2009-12-07. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8399996.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ Gammell, Caroline (2009-12-07). "The Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/planning/6753758/Swindon-twinned-with-Disney-World.html. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
Further reading[link]
- Swindon, Mark Child, Breedon Books, 2002, hardcover, 159 pages, ISBN 1-85983-322-5
- Francis Frith's Swindon Living Memories (Photographic Memories S.), Francis Frith and Brian Bridgeman, The Frith Book Company Ltd, 2003, Paperback, 96 pages, ISBN 1-85937-656-8
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Paolo Di Canio | ||
| Date of birth | (1968-07-09) 9 July 1968 (age 43) | ||
| Place of birth | Rome, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Swindon Town (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Lazio | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1985–1990 | Lazio | 54 | (4) |
| 1986–1987 | → Ternana (loan) | 27 | (2) |
| 1990–1993 | Juventus | 78 | (6) |
| 1993–1994 | Napoli | 26 | (5) |
| 1994–1996 | Milan | 37 | (6) |
| 1996–1997 | Celtic | 24 | (12) |
| 1997–1999 | Sheffield Wednesday | 41 | (15) |
| 1999–2003 | West Ham United | 118 | (48) |
| 2003–2004 | Charlton Athletic | 31 | (4) |
| 2004–2006 | Lazio | 50 | (11) |
| 2006–2008 | Cisco Roma | 46 | (14) |
| Total | 532 | (127) | |
| National team | |||
| 1988–1990 | Italy U-21 | 9 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2011– | Swindon Town | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Paolo Di Canio (born 9 July 1968) is an Italian former professional footballer and current manager of newly promoted League One side Swindon Town. Di Canio made over 500 league appearances and scored over 100 league goals as a player.
As a player, Di Canio played in Serie A for Lazio, Juventus, Napoli and Milan, before playing in the Scottish Premier League for Celtic and the English Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United and Charlton Athletic. His playing career contained several controversial incidents including his push on referee Paul Alcock in 1998, for which he received an eleven match ban, and his self-proclaimed allegiance to Fascismo. He was also SPFA Players' Player of the Year in 1997, West Ham United player of the season and a winner of the BBC's Goal of the Season in 2000 and of a FIFA Fair Play Award in 2001. After his seasons in the Premier League he returned to Italy where he played for Lazio, Ternana and Cisco Roma before retiring in 2008. He played for the Italy U-21 team but not for Italy despite his goal scoring record. In 2011 Di Canio entered football management in England with Swindon Town, guiding them in his first season as manager to promotion to Football League One.
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Career[link]
Di Canio was born in Rome, in the district of Quarticciolo a working-class area populated by Roma fans, Di Canio was nevertheless drawn to Lazio. As a small boy, he was addicted to Cola and similar drinks and called Palloca, a slang term meaning lard-ball. He was fat, and knock-kneed, and needed to wear orthopedic shoes - "But I never hid. My response was to exercise; to try to become the kind of person I am." [1] He signed for Lazio in 1985 and remained there until 1990, when he was sold to another of Italy's biggest clubs, Juventus. He left Juventus "after an animated exchange with then manager Giovanni Trapattoni" and spent the 1993-94 season with Napoli. Two seasons followed at Milan, culminating in a row with Fabio Capello.[2] In 1996 he joined Celtic in Scotland, and his successful season in Glasgow (scoring 15 goals in 37 appearances) saw him make a move to the English Premiership as he joined Sheffield Wednesday for a sum of around £4.2 million. Whilst in Sheffield, Di Canio was the club's leading goal scorer for the 1997–98 season with 14 goals and he became a favourite of the fans.
In England, Di Canio is infamous for an incident on the pitch in September 1998, when he pushed referee Paul Alcock to the ground after being sent off while playing for Sheffield Wednesday against Arsenal at Hillsborough, which resulted in an extended ban of 11 matches[3] and him being fined £10,000.[4]
In January 1999, Di Canio signed for West Ham United for £1.7 million and helped them to achieve a high league position (5th) and qualify for the UEFA Cup through the Intertoto Cup. He was also the OPTA player of the season 1998–99. He scored the BBC Goal of the Season in March 2000 with a volley against Wimbledon,[5] which is still considered among the best goals in Premiership history[6] and was named as the Premiership's goal of the decade in a December 2009 Sky Sports News viewers' poll, scoring 30% of votes.[7] In this season he was also voted Hammer of the Year by the club's fans.
In 2001, he won the FIFA Fair Play Award. The previous December, in a match against Everton, in a noteworthy display of sportsmanship, Di Canio shunned a goal scoring opportunity and caught the ball from a cross instead as the Everton goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was lying injured on the ground after he twisted his knee attempting a clearance on the edge of the box. FIFA described the act as "a special act of good sportsmanship."[8]
Sir Alex Ferguson tried to sign him for Manchester United halfway through the 2001-02 season, but his attempts were unsuccessful and Di Canio remained in East London for another season and a half.[9]
He remained a key figure at West Ham until 2003 when, with the Hammers struggling at the bottom of the league, he had a very public row with manager Glenn Roeder and was dropped from the first team. However, he returned at the end of the season (after Roeder, stricken by a brain tumour, was replaced by Trevor Brooking) and scored a winner against Chelsea in the penultimate game of the season that appeared to have preserved West Ham's Premiership status.[10] However, it proved to be irrelevant and they were relegated on the final day of the season after a 2–2 draw away to Birmingham City, where he scored an 89th minute equaliser.[11] He was released on a free transfer and after turning down Leeds United[citation needed] he signed a contract with Charlton Athletic for the start of 2003–04. Whilst at The Valley he helped the club secure its highest league finish since the 1950s. However, he only scored four goals for the Addicks, all of them from the penalty spot (one of them scored from a rebound).
Even though he had already signed an extension to his Charlton contract, in August 2004 he returned to his home team of Lazio taking a massive paycut in order to return to the economically stretched Roman team. Lazio fans were happy to have a Rome-bred Lazio supporter in the team again, something missing since the departure of Alessandro Nesta in 2002. He scored in the Rome derby, just as he had in 1989, leading the team to a 3–1 victory over A.S. Roma in January (6 January 2005). However the negative publicity that Di Canio generated for Lazio, including his intimate relationship with club's ultras and their increased influence thanks to his presence in the team, coupled with problems with some teammates and coaches, exasperated club president and majority shareholder, Claudio Lotito, with whom he already had a difficult relationship. As a result, Di Canio's contract was not renewed in the summer of 2006. During several of his games for Lazio, Di Canio made a fascist salute to their right-wing fans. He subsequently signed with Cisco Roma of Serie C2 on a free transfer. In his first season with Cisco Roma, his team failed promotion to playoffs, despite a runners-up position in the regular season. He subsequently agreed to stay with Cisco for another season, in a second attempt to win promotion to Serie C1 with the Roman side.
On March 10, 2008, Di Canio announced his retirement from football, ending his 23-year playing career before the end of the season due to physical issues. It is his intention to begin coaching lessons at Coverciano to gain a coaching position.[12] In an interview he revealed that his dream would be to manage former club West Ham, and applied for the position after the resignation of Alan Curbishley in September 2008.[13] Di Canio played in Tony Carr's testimonial game at Upton Park on 5 May 2010, which featured a West Ham team against West Ham Academy old boys. He played for both sides during the match. The West Ham team won 5-1.[14] In July 2010, in honour of Di Canio, West Ham announced the opening of the 'Paolo Di Canio Lounge', within the West Stand, at their Upton Park ground,[15] which was formally launched by the unveiling of a plaque by Di Canio himself, on 11 September 2010.[16]
Managerial career[link]
Di Canio has a UEFA Pro Licence for coaching. On 20 May 2011 Di Canio was appointed manager of Swindon Town, following the club's relegation to League Two. Di Canio began his career as a manager with a emphatic 3–0 win over Crewe on the 6 August 2011.[17] On 30 August 2011, Di Canio was involved in a pitch-side altercation with Swindon striker Leon Clarke, after their defeat in the League Cup to Southampton.[18] In January 2012, Swindon caused a FA Cup shock by defeating Premier League opposition, Wigan Athletic, 2–1. Di Canio stated that he believed his players deserved to have their names put on the stadium and dedicated the victory to his father, who died late in 2011.[19] He was sent to the stands later in the month in a league game against Macclesfield Town for vociferously venting his frustration at his side not being awarded a free-kick. Swindon won the match 1-0 and with over half the season gone were fighting for promotion to League One.[20]
Under Di Canio, Swindon reached the 2012 Football League Trophy Final, where they were defeated 2–0 by Chesterfield
On 21 April 2012 Swindon were promoted to Football League One after Crawley Town's 1-1 draw with Dagenham & Redbridge and Torquay United's 2-0 loss to AFC Wimbledon, despite Di Canio's side having lost 3-1 to Gillingham on the same day. He dedicated the promotion to his parents, his mother having passed away shortly after his father, in the April of that year.[21]
Fascist politics[link]
Since a very early age Di Canio has been a self-proclaimed fascista and has been photographed and videotaped several times giving the controversial Roman salute to Lazio supporters while playing for Lazio.[22]
He created controversy by twice using the gesture to salute Lazio fans, first in a match against arch rivals A.S. Roma and then against A.S. Livorno Calcio, a club inclined to leftist politics.[23] Di Canio received a one match game ban after the second event and was fined €7,000,[24] after which he was quoted as saying "I will always salute as I did because it gives me a sense of belonging to my people...I saluted my people with what for me is a sign of belonging to a group that holds true values, values of civility against the standardisation that this society imposes upon us."[25] His salute has been featured on unofficial merchandise sold outside Stadio Olimpico after the ban.[23] Di Canio has also expressed admiration for Mussolini.[26][27] On the day of his appointment as manager of Swindon Town, the GMB union terminated their financial backing of around £4,000 per season of the club due to Di Canio's fascist views.[28]
A source quoted in a Robert Chalmers article in 2011 has said; "Paolo is not, and has never been [...] an ideological fascist. Certain things he has done—like the salute with the Lazio fans—have to do with his psychological history, particularly his former compulsive tendencies and pronounced mood swings." Though this would seem to contradict his own declarations on the subject.[29]
Chalmers points out that while in Italy, his column in the Corriere del Sport often took the form of writing against the idiocy of racism. Di Canio has many Italian friends who are Socialists and he has said; "I don't vote, I haven't voted for 14 years. Italian politicians—all of them—think only about themselves, and making money."[30]
Chalmers' article also noted that Di Canio spoke of the growing influence in his life of Samurai culture, and of the "Japanese spiritual mentality" from reading Mishima, and the teachings in the traditions of Hagakure and Bushido.[31]
Tattoos[link]
Di Canio has several tattoos including, on his right biceps, the Latin word "DUX", meaning "leader", or Il Duce in Italian, an antonomasia for Benito Mussolini.[32] He also has a West Ham United tattoo on his left upper arm.[33]
Di Canio has stated that he will get a Swindon tattoo if he guides them to win the League in his first season in charge.[34][35]
Honours[link]
As a Player[link]
- Serie B: Promotion 1987–88
- Supercoppa Italiana: runner-up 2004
- Serie A: Champion 1995–96
- UEFA Champions League: runner-up 1995
- UEFA Super Cup: Winner: 1994
- Intercontinental Cup: runner-up 1994
- Scottish Premier Division: runner-up 1996–97
- UEFA Intertoto Cup: Winner 1999
As Manager[link]
- League Two: Champions 2011–12
- LMA League Two Manager of the Year: Winner 2012
Career statistics[link]
Club[link]
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Italy | League | Coppa Italia | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 1985–86 | Lazio | Serie B | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 1986–87 | Ternana | Serie C2 | 27 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1987–88 | Lazio | Serie B | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 1988–89 | Serie A | 30 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1989–90 | 24 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 1990–91 | Juventus | Serie A | 23 | 3 | ||||||||
| 1991–92 | 24 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1992–93 | 31 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 1993–94 | Napoli | Serie A | 26 | 5 | ||||||||
| 1994–95 | Milan | Serie A | 15 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1995–96 | 22 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Scotland | League | Scottish Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 1996–97 | Celtic | Premier Division | 24 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 31 | 15 | |
| England | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 1997–98 | Sheffield Wednesday | Premier League | 35 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – | 40 | 14 | |
| 1998–99 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 8 | 3 | |||
| 1998–99 | West Ham United | Premier League | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 13 | 5 | |
| 1999–00 | 30 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 45 | 18 | ||
| 2000–01 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | 37 | 11 | |||
| 2001–02 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 27 | 9 | |||
| 2002–03 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 19 | 9 | |||
| 2003–04 | Charlton Athletic | Premier League | 31 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | 33 | 5 | |
| Italy | League | Coppa Italia | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2004–05 | Lazio | Serie A | 23 | 6 | ||||||||
| 2005–06 | 27 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 2006–07 | Cisco Roma | Serie C2 | 28 | 7 | ||||||||
| 2007–08 | 18 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Total | Italy | 318 | 48 | |||||||||
| Scotland | 24 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 31 | 15 | |||
| England | 190 | 67 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 222 | 74 | ||
| Career total | 532 | 127 | ||||||||||
Manager[link]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Swindon Town | 11 May 2011 | Present | &1000000000000005800000058 | &1000000000000003600000036 | &100000000000000080000008 | &1000000000000001400000014 | &1000000000000006207000062.07 |
| Total | &1000000000000005800000058 | &1000000000000003600000036 | &100000000000000080000008 | &1000000000000001400000014 | &1000000000000006207000062.07 | ||
Notes and references[link]
- ^ The Independent on Sunday, 11 December 2011 [1]
- ^ The Independent on Sunday, 11 December 2011
- ^ "Di Canio gets 11-match ban for push on ref". BBC Sport. 23 October 1998. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/199792.stm.
- ^ "Di Canio ban too short, say referees". BBC Sport. 24 October 1998. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/fa_carling_premiership/199527.stm.
- ^ "West Ham 2 Wimbledon 1". Sportinglife.com. http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/westham/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/00/03/26/SOCCER_West_Ham.html&TEAMHD=westham&DIV=prem&TEAM=WEST--HAM&RH=West--Ham&PREV_SEASON=1998. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
- ^ Raynor, Dominic (2009-10-23). "Paolo Di Canio: Explosive Italian". Soccernet.espn.go.com. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=688402&cc=5739. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
- ^ "Football Tonight". 18:00, 31 December 2009 (UTC). 50 (approx) minutes in. BSkyB. Sky Sports News.
- ^ "Di Canio wins Fair Play award". BBC News. 2001-12-17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1682501.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
- ^ [2]
- ^ "Di Canio grabs West Ham lifeline". BBC News. 2003-05-03. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/2968013.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
- ^ "Birmingham 2 West Ham 2". Sportinglife.com. http://www.sportinglife.com/football/cc_championship/westham/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/03/05/11/SOCCER_Birmingham.html&TEAMHD=westham&DIV=nat1&TEAM=WEST--HAM&RH=West--Ham&PREV_SEASON=2001. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
- ^ "Di Canio Smette di giocare, addio alla Cisco Roma". Yahoo! Eurosport Italia. March 10, 2008. http://it.eurosport.yahoo.com/10032008/44/canio-smette-giocare-addio-cisco-roma-86.html.
- ^ "Di Canio wants to be Hammers boss". BBC Sport. 4 September 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/7598744.stm.
- ^ "Paolo's pride". Whufc.com. http://www.whufc.com/articles/20100506/paolos-pride_2236884_2044685. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
- ^ "Take your seat in the Di Canio Lounge | News | Latest News | News | West Ham United". Whufc.com. http://www.whufc.com/articles/20100716/take-your-seat-in-the-di-canio-lounge_2236884_2093957. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
- ^ "Di Canio Lounge a hit | News | Latest News | News | West Ham United". Whufc.com. http://www.whufc.com/articles/20100913/di-canio-lounge-a-hit_2236884_2152448. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
- ^ "BBC Sport - Swindon Town confirm Paolo Di Canio as new manager". BBC News. 2011-05-20. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13466915.stm. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ "Time called on Clarke". www.swindoadvertiser.co.uk. 2011-09-01. http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/sportlatest/9226141.Time_called_on_Clarke/. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
- ^ "Swindon 2 - 1 Wigan". BBC Sport. 7 January 2012. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16372054.stm. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ^ "Swindon 1 - 0 Macclesfield". BBC Sport. 21 January 2012. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16559842.stm. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
- ^ Crook, Alex (21 April 2012). "Gillingham 3 Swindon Town 1: match report". www.telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/league-two/9218843/Gillingham-3-Swindon-Town-1-match-report.html. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ Fenton, Ben (2005-12-24). "I'm a fascist, not a racist, says Paolo di Canio". London: Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1506262/Im-a-fascist-not-a-racist-says-Paolo-di-Canio.html. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
- ^ a b Kassimeris, Christos (2008). European football in black and white: tackling racism in football. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 70. ISBN 0-7391-1960-5, 9780739119600.
- ^ Bar-On, Tamir (2007). Where have all the fascists gone?. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.,. p. 1. ISBN 0-7546-7154-2, 9780754671541.
- ^ Nursey, James (Dec 19, 2005). "Football: ll Di Canio new salute row". The Daily Mirror; London (UK),. http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/daily-mirror-the-london-uk/mi_8006/is_20051219/football-ll-di-canio-salute/ai_n40766979/. Retrieved 28 February 2010. [dead link]
- ^ Duff, Mark (9 January 2005). "Footballer's 'fascist salute' row". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4158591.stm. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ^ Fenton, Ben (24 Dec 2005). "I'm a fascist, not a racist, says Paolo di Canio". London: Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1506262/Im-a-fascist-not-a-racist-says-Paolo-di-Canio.html. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ^ Mokbel, Sami (21 May 2011). "Sponsors cut ties with Swindon over Paolo di Canio's fascist views". London: Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1389305/Sponsors-cut-ties-Swindon-Paolo-di-Canios-fascist-views.html. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ^ Fenton, Ben (2005-12-24). "I'm a fascist, not a racist, says Paolo di Canio". London: Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1506262/Im-a-fascist-not-a-racist-says-Paolo-di-Canio.html. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
- ^ Independent on Sunday, 11 December 2011
- ^ Independent on Sunday, 11 December 2011
- ^ "Political Football: Paolo Di Canio". www.channel4.com. 26 April 2008. http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/sports/political%2Bfootball%2Bpaolo%2Bdi%2Bcanio/1643547.html. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
- ^ "I'm on my way to England! Di Canio throws his hat into the ring for West Ham hotseat". London: www.dailymail.co.uk. 18 May 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1388312/Paolo-Di-Canio-wants-West-Ham-job.html. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
- ^ "Paolo di Canio voices commitment to Swindon Town". BBC Sport. 22 November 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15847936.stm. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
- ^ "Di Canio planning on Swindon stay". BBC News. 22 November 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15847936.stm.
External links[link]
- Di Canio's playing profile (from CelticTalk.org The Ultimate Celtic Forum)
- FootballDatabase provides Paolo Di Canio's profile and stats
- Di Canio's playing profile (from Cisco Roma official website)
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FIFA Fair Play Award Winner 2001 |
Succeeded by Football communities of Japan and Korea Republic |
| Preceded by Paul Gascoigne |
SPFA Players' Player of the Year 1996 - 97 season |
Succeeded by Jackie McNamara |
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| Name | Di Canio, Paolo |
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| Short description | Italian footballer |
| Date of birth | 1968-07-09 |
| Place of birth | Rome |
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