Wroughton

Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in the , , England. Located between the M4 motorway and the edge of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape, it lies about 2.5 miles south of Swindon town centre, 5 miles east of , and 7.5 miles north of .
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  • Type: Village with 7,290 residents
  • Description: village in Wiltshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Wroughton, Wiltshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Clout’s Wood and Parish Church of St John and St Helen.

Deciduous forest
Photo: Garrytowns, Public domain.
Clout's Wood is an 11.78 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in , notified in 1951. The site is managed as a by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Forest
is a 48.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in , notified in 1971. The site contains wet ash-maple and acid pedunculate oak-hazel-ash woodland, and its notification as an SSSI due to this, particular richness of the associated ground flora.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Swindon and Okus.

Photo: Fanvonangelie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a large town in , 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.

Suburb
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb of , , England. It is an elevated area situated around 1 mile south-west of the town centre and is predominantly residential.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, OGL.
is a suburb of , , England, approximately 3 kilometres south of the town centre. Situated between the M4 motorway and Old Town Railway Path, has three neighbourhoods: East, Middle and West Wichel.

Wroughton

Latitude
51.5252° or 51° 31′ 31″ north
Longitude
-1.7911° or 1° 47′ 28″ west
Population
7,290
Elevation
387 feet (118 metres)
Open location code
9C3WG6G5+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21517660
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2633476
Wiki­data ID
Q1863505
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Wroughton” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Wroughton”
  • Bengali: “রাফটন”
  • Cebuano: “Wroughton”
  • Chinese: “伍尔顿”
  • Chinese: “伍爾頓”
  • Chinese: “勞頓”
  • Chinese: “罗顿村”
  • Chinese: “羅頓村”
  • Dutch: “Wroughton”
  • French: “Wroughton”
  • German: “Wroughton”
  • Gujarati: “વ્રોટન”
  • Irish: “Wroughton”
  • Italian: “Wroughton”
  • Japanese: “ラウトン”
  • Kannada: “ವುರ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “우그턴”
  • Ladin: “Wroughton”
  • Lithuanian: “Routonas”
  • Persian: “روتن، ویلتشر”
  • Polish: “Wroughton”
  • Portuguese: “Wroughton”
  • Russian: “Роутон”
  • Slovenian: “Wroughton”
  • Spanish: “Wroughton”
  • Swedish: “Wroughton”
  • Tamil: “இல்லோகன்”
  • Telugu: “వ్రోఘ్టన్”
  • Turkish: “Wroughton”
  • Urdu: “ورووگھٹن”
  • Welsh: “Wroughton”
  • “Wroughton”

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