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== Parish History  ==
== Parish History  ==
SWINDON (Holy Rood), a market-town and parish,in the union of Highworth and Swindon, hundred ofKingsbridge, Swindon and N. divisions of Wilts, 41miles (N.) from Salisbury, and 81 (W.) from London. There are places ofworship for Independents and Wesleyans.


&nbsp;SWINDON, two towns, a '''parish,''' and a sub-district, in Highworth district, Wiltshire. The towns are Old S. and New S. Old S. stands on an eminence, near the Wiltshire and Berks canal, 1 mile SSE of S.-Junction railway station, and 17 NE by E of Chippenham; was known, at Domesday, as Svindune.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=377&amp;amp;st=swindon Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)]</ref>  
From: 'Sweethope - Swine', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 286-289. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51323  Date accessed: 16 October 2013.
 
From: 'Sweethope - Swine', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 286-289. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51323  Date accessed: 16 October 2013.
&nbsp;SWINDON, two towns, a '''parish,''' and a sub-district, in Highworth district, Wiltshire. The towns are Old S. and New S. Old S. stands on an eminence, near the Wiltshire and Berks canal, 1 mile SSE of S.-Junction railway station, and 17 NE by E of Chippenham; was known, at Domesday, as Svindune.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=377&amp;amp;amp;st=swindon Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)]</ref>  


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