WHSmith plc () ( known colloquially as Smith's ) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, England.

This now is identified as Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Wiltshire, near Swindon.

Moreover, the Swindon Robins is the full name of the local Speedway promotion.

Swindon railway station is on the line from London Paddington to Bristol.

Swindon Borough Council, is a unitary authority independent of Wiltshire Council since 1997.

Swindon is home to the Bodleian Library's book depository, which contains of bookshelves.

This original market area is on top of the hill in central Swindon, now known as Old Town.

It is the second largest settlement in the county ( the largest being Swindon ).

Swindon Town Football Club is an English football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK.

The volunteer board of a retail consumers ' cooperative, such as the former Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-operative Society | Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op, is held to account at an Annual General Meeting of members

Paddington station is the terminus for commuter services to the west of England ( e. g., Slough, Maidenhead, Reading, Swindon ) and mainline services to Oxford, Bristol, Bath, Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth, Cornwall and South Wales ( including Cardiff, Bridgend and Swansea ).

It is located in Shrivenham, formerly in Berkshire, England, about five miles east of the important railroad town of Swindon.

Cirencester is the hub of a significant road network with important routes to Gloucester ( A417 ), Cheltenham ( A435 ), Warwick ( A429 ), Oxford ( A40 via the B4425 road ), Wantage ( A417 ), Swindon ( A419 ), Chippenham ( A429 ), Bristol, Bath ( A433 ), and Stroud ( A419 ).

Kemble Station to the west of the town, distinguished by a sheltered garden, is served by fast trains from Paddington station via Swindon.

However, the rivalry between Oxford and Swindon is stronger than between either of the two and Reading, partly due to them both spending their recent history in lower divisions than Reading.

Traffic on the single track Golden Valley Line between Kemble and Swindon and the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester has increased significantly and a dual track line is now being reinstated here.

A new Junction, 15A, is being considered by Wiltshire Council and this would give access to South and Central Swindon as well as to Wroughton, Marlborough and Devizes via the existing A4361, as well as a possible Junction 18A which would connect with the A432 and A4174 giving better access to Bristol, via Mangotsfield, and also a direct link with Yate.

Ellandun is thought to be south of Swindon, Wiltshire but the exact site is not known.

T. Spicer has suggested the battle took place on the grounds of what is now Lydiard Park, Swindon.

The agricultural landscape is then soon supplanted on the right by the sidings around the West Somerset Railway Association ’ s ( WSRA ) workshops, which are housed in a corrugated iron building known as the Swindon Shed as it was originally built there more than 100 years ago.

The 2nd World War affected Swindon Town more than most other football clubs and the club was almost disbanded, the club needed a large amount of time to recover and for this reason it failed to make any real impression in the league and would not climb into the second division until 1963 when they finished runners up to Northampton Town.

In the United Kingdom, the " Magic Roundabout " name has been given to large road traffic circulation systems with unconventional layouts-in Swindon and in Hemel Hempstead for example.

This annual event always commenced on a Sunday evening by friends and neighbours from Swindon, Wroughton and neighbouring villages congregating at the Three Tuns, where, crowded inside and out, large quantities of beer and spirits were consumed.

There are also large concentrations in Bradford, Leeds, Coventry and Nottingham, as well as South Yorkshire, South Wales, Rugby, Banbury, Slough and Swindon.

First Great Western uses its large fleet of 54 HST " InterCity 125 " sets ( seven or eight Mk III coaches between two Class 43 locomotives ) to operate most long-distance services between London and destinations such as Swindon,,,,, Swansea,, ( summer ),, ( summer ),,,,, Plymouth and Penzance.

There are many large towns on the River Thames upstream of London ( Oxford, Reading, Swindon, Bracknell ) that discharge their treated sewage into the river, which is used to supply London with water downstream.

: This locomotive was extensively rebuilt at Swindon railway works in 1869 and was thus the only member of this large class to survive until the end of the broad gauge on 21 May 1892.

The 1361 Class were small 0-6-0ST steam locomotives built by the Great Western Railway at their Swindon railway works, England, mainly for shunting in docks and other sidings where track curvature was too tight for large locomotives.

Among other locations, Farmoor supplies the large town of Swindon.

The eastern end of the English M4 corridor is home to a large number of technology companies, particularly in Berkshire, Swindon and the Thames Valley.

The station is a major junction, serving the Reading to Plymouth Line with services to and from Penzance and London Paddington ( two-hourly service ), Wessex Main Line with services to and from Cardiff and Portsmouth ( hourly service ), services to Swindon ( limited service ), Heart of Wessex Line providing local services from Bristol to Weymouth, and services to London Waterloo ( limited service ) as well as large stone trains from the Mendip quarries.

Swindon was a small market town, mainly for barter trade, until roughly 1848.

Fleming remained with Swindon throughout a playing career spanning 1907 and 1924 and went on to live in the town for his entire life.

There were several reasons for positioning a new station at Stoke Gifford: trains to London were quicker than on the longer route from Temple Meads, via Bath and Chippenham before reaching Swindon ; a larger car park than at Temple Meads could be provided ; the population on the northern fringes of the city was growing, especially with the building of a new town at Bradley Stoke ; and it was within easy access of the M4 and M5 motorways.

* The design of the Uffington Horse was used as the album cover of the 1982 album English Settlement by English rock group XTC, who come from the nearby town of Swindon.

* The town of Swindon abandoned the use of fixed cameras in 2009, questioning their cost effectiveness with the cameras being replaced by vehicle activated warning signs and enforcement by police using mobile speed cameras: in the nine months following the switch-off there was a small reduction in accident rates which had changed slightly in similar periods before and after the switch off ( Before: 1 fatal, 1 serious and 13 slight accidents.

Chippenham lies south of the M4 motorway, which links the town to Bristol, Swindon, South Wales and London.

Bus services connect the town to Bath, Calne, Devizes, Trowbridge, Swindon, and nearby villages.

The town has been identified as an ideal location for a multiplex cinema which could serve an area covering Calne, Melksham, Corsham and Malmesbury, towns currently devoid of cinemas, eliminating the need for travel to congested Bath or further-afield Swindon.

Historically a market town, Chippenham's economy has since changed to that of a commuter town with residents travelling to workplaces in Bath, Bristol, Swindon and even London ( almost 100 miles to the east ).

However, it was the coming of the railways that transformed a small village into the world's first " railway town ", although places such as Crewe, Derby and Swindon soon overtook Newton in size and importance.

While recovering in hospital, Thursday is instructed by her future self to take the LiteraTec job in her home town of Swindon.

It crosses with the A4 at Avebury after which it becomes the A4361 as it heads for Swindon town centre via Wroughton.

The 2000 relaunch gave listeners in Swindon separate programmes from the rest of the county, introduced in response to the rapid growth of the town and its new unitary authority status.

On 11 November 2002, the separation was enhanced when the station was effectively split into two different services: BBC Radio Swindon, covering the town and surrounding areas, and BBC Radio Wiltshire for the rest of the county.

The town lies in the Cotswolds on the River Coln, about east of Cirencester, west of Lechlade and north of Swindon.

As such it is Wiltshire's fifth-largest town by population after Swindon, Salisbury, Chippenham and Trowbridge.

The town has a thriving business district and is also close to the retail centres of Bath, Bristol, Chippenham, Trowbridge and Swindon and is surrounded by beautiful villages such as Lacock, Holt, Seend and Semington.

The Wilts and Berks Canal Trust are currently in negotiations with Swindon Council to include in the New Swindon Regeneration Framework plans to restore the canal through the town centre.

Cricklade is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in north Wiltshire in England, midway between Swindon and Cirencester.