Wroughton
Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in northeast Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and lies along the A4361 between Swindon and Avebury; the road into Swindon crosses the M4 motorway between junctions 15 and 16.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Clout’s Wood
Deciduous forest
Photo: Garrytowns, Public domain.
Clout's Wood is an 11.78 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.
Burderop Wood
Forest
Burderop Wood is a 48.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, 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.
Swindon
Photo: Fanvonangelie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
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.
Wichelstowe
Suburb
Wichelstowe is a residential development and urban extension on the southern edge of the town of Swindon in South West England, constructed from late 2006.
Wroughton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5252° or 51° 31′ 31″ northLongitude
-1.7911° or 1° 47′ 28″ westPopulation
7,290Elevation
387 feet (118 metres)Open location code
9C3WG6G5+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 21517660OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2633476Wikidata ID
Q1863505
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Satellite Map
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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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