Swindon
Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, south west England, that is known for its railway-town heritage and links with the British railway system in which it played a central part during the 19th and 20th centuries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 184,000 residents
- Description: town in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Swindon, England”
Places of Interest
Highlights include County Ground and Swindon Railway Station.
County Ground
Stadium
Photo: Swindonx, Public domain.
The County Ground, known as the Nigel Eady County Ground from the 2024-25 season, is a football stadium located in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, and has been home to Swindon Town Football Club since 1896.
Swindon Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Swindon railway station is on the Great Western Main Line in South West England, serving the town of Swindon, Wiltshire. The station is 77 miles 23 chains down the line from the zero point at London Paddington and lies between Didcot Parkway and Chippenham.
Museum of the Great Western Railway
Museum
Photo: BazzaDaRambler, CC BY 2.0.
STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is housed in part of the former railway works in Swindon, England – Wiltshire's 'railway town'. The 6,500-square-metre museum opened in 2000.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stratton St Margaret and Covingham.
Stratton St Margaret
Village
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 and Kingsdown. Stratton St Margaret is situated 2 miles northeast of Swindon.
Covingham
Suburb
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Covingham is an eastern area of Swindon, England, which was developed in the 1960s as part of Swindon's eastward expansion towards the A419. St Paul's Church was built in 1971 and is the home of a partnership between the Church of England and the Methodist Church. Covingham is situated 2½ miles east of Swindon.
Okus
Suburb
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Okus is a suburb of Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom. It is south of the town centre and is home to the Commonweal School, a secondary school with academy status.
Swindon
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Wroughton, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5615° or 51° 33′ 42″ northLongitude
-1.7854° or 1° 47′ 8″ westPopulation
184,000Elevation
371 feet (113 metres)Open location code
9C3WH667+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 15703170OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2636389Wikidata ID
Q200942
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Swindon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Swindon”
- Arabic: “سويندون”
- Aragonese: “Swindon”
- Armenian: “Սուինդոն”
- Asturian: “Swindon”
- Azerbaijani: “Svindon”
- Basque: “Swindon”
- Belarusian: “Суіндан”
- Belarusian: “Сўіндан”
- Bengali: “সুইন্ডন”
- Breton: “Swindon”
- Bulgarian: “Суиндън”
- Catalan: “Swindon”
- Cebuano: “Swindon (kapital sa kondado)”
- Cebuano: “Swindon”
- Chinese: “Swindon”
- Chinese: “史雲頓”
- Chinese: “威尔特郡”
- Chinese: “威爾特郡”
- Chinese: “斯温顿”
- Czech: “Swindon”
- Danish: “County of Swindon”
- Danish: “Swindon”
- Dutch: “Swindon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سويندون”
- Esperanto: “Svindono”
- Esperanto: “Swindon”
- Estonian: “Swindon”
- Finnish: “Swindon”
- French: “Swindon”
- German: “Swindon”
- Greek: “Σουίντον”
- Gujarati: “સ્વિન્ડન”
- Hebrew: “סווינדון”
- Hungarian: “Swindon”
- Icelandic: “Swindon”
- Ido: “Swindon”
- Indonesian: “Swindon”
- Irish: “Swindon”
- Italian: “Swindon”
- Japanese: “スウィンドン”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ವಿಂಡನ್”
- Korean: “스윈던”
- Korean: “스윈돈”
- Korean: “스윈든”
- Ladin: “Swindon”
- Latin: “Swindon”
- Latvian: “Svindona”
- Lithuanian: “Svindonas”
- Lithuanian: “Swindon”
- Luxembourgish: “Swindon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Swindon (koān)”
- Northern Frisian: “Swindon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Swindon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swindon”
- Norwegian: “Swindon”
- Ossetian: “Суиндон”
- Persian: “سوئیندون”
- Polish: “Swindon”
- Portuguese: “Swindon”
- Quechua: “Swindon”
- Romanian: “Swindon”
- Russian: “Swindon”
- Russian: “Свиндон”
- Russian: “Суиндон”
- Sardinian: “Swindon”
- Scots: “Swindon”
- Serbian: “Svindon”
- Serbian: “Swindon”
- Serbian: “Свиндон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Swindon”
- Silesian: “Swindon”
- Slovak: “Swindon”
- Slovenian: “Swindon”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوئیندون”
- Spanish: “Swindon, Inglaterra”
- Spanish: “Swindon”
- Swahili: “Swindon”
- Swedish: “Swindon”
- Tamil: “ஸ்வின்டோன்”
- Tatar: “Свиндон”
- Telugu: “స్విండన్”
- Thai: “Swindon”
- Thai: “สวินดอน”
- Thai: “สวินดัน”
- Turkish: “Swindon”
- Ukrainian: “Свіндон”
- Urdu: “سوِنڈن، انگلستان”
- Urdu: “سوِنڈن”
- Urdu: “سوینڈن”
- Venetian: “Swindon”
- Volapük: “Swindon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Swindon”
- Welsh: “Swindon”
- Wu Chinese: “斯温登”
- Yue Chinese: “史雲頓”
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