Main Wader Scrape

Main Wader Scrape is a lagoon in Swindon, England. Main Wader Scrape is situated nearby to Swindon Lagoons Nature Reserve (entrance gate), as well as near Small Hide Pond.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Spectrum Building and Holy Trinity.

The Spectrum Building

Building

Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Spectrum Building is a high tech building in Swindon, England, commissioned by the French car company Renault for their UK operations. Designed by the British architect Norman Foster of Foster Associates, it opened in 1982. The Spectrum Building is situated 2,300 feet south of Main Wader Scrape.

Holy Trinity

Church

Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holy Trinity is a church, which is situated 4,200 feet southwest of Main Wader Scrape.

St Augustine’s Church, Even Swindon

Church

Photo: Peter Watkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Church of St. Augustine is an Anglican parish church in Even Swindon, an area of the town of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The church was built in 1907 to serve the spiritual needs of people moving to Swindon for employment at the Great Western Railway Works. St Augustine’s Church, Even Swindon is situated 1 mile southeast of Main Wader Scrape.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rodbourne and Toothill.

Rodbourne

Suburb

Rodbourne is a suburb of Swindon in Wiltshire, England, north of the town centre and about 0.9 miles northwest of Swindon railway station. It includes an area formerly called Even Swindon.

Toothill

Suburb

Toothill is a suburb in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, located atop its namesake hill around 2 miles southwest of the town centre. Constructed in the 1970s, Toothill was the first area to be developed within what is now West Swindon parish.

Haydon Wick

Suburb

Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Haydon Wick is a suburb and civil parish of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It had a population of 25,036 at the 2021 census. The parish includes the former hamlet of Haydon and the suburbs of Greenmeadow and Priory Vale.

Main Wader Scrape

Type: Lagoon (intermittent)
Category: body of water
Location: Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.5728° or 51° 34′ 22″ north

Longitude

-1.82141° or 1° 49′ 17″ west

Open location code

9C3WH5FH+4C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1445407286

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=lagoon

OpenStreetMap attribute

intermittent=yes

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Highlights include Small Hide Pond and Swindon Lagoons Nature Reserve (entrance gate).

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