Swindon's most recent addition is the Shoebox Theatre, a fringe theatre and producing house with a focus on contemporary performance and new work. Another concern is the existing proposals for building to the south-west of the borough in the so-called 'front garden'.
The main OBU campus is about 27 miles (43 km) northeast of Swindon. [8], The Mechanics' Institute, formed in 1844, moved into a building that looked rather like a church and included a covered market, on 1 May 1855. [58] It is the junction of five roads: (clockwise from South) Drove Road, Fleming Way, County Road, Shrivenham Road and Queens Drive. Originally only closed to traffic from 10am till 5pm on Saturdays, this was expanded to the eventual pedestrianisation of the main shopping area and paving over of the existing roads and canals. [21] Only Warrington had a lower ratio of house prices to household income in 2007, with the average household income in Swindon among the highest in the country. Eastcott was bought by the Vilett family in the 18th century (now marked by Eastcott Hill in today's town) and Westcott was purchased by the Goddard family in the 18th century. In April 1997, the former Thamesdown Borough Council became a new unitary authority known as the Borough of Swindon; its population in 2002 was 181,000. In 1872 the Great Western Railway Company built a cottage hospital in Faringdon Road. Foxhill motocross circuit is 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of the town and has staged Grand Prix events. The borough was one of the first areas to declare in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. Construction began on the M4 motorway in the late 1960s to provide quick and easy access from the region into London, something that Swindon's football club seemed to use as an inspiration, when in 1969 Swindon Town F.C. A fair was like a market but held only once a year. Manchester Road was built about 1900. The main employers are car manufacturing (Honda moved to Swindon in 1985), insurance, banking and building societies Other large employers are engineering, pharmaceuticals and food distribution. [30][31] The town is also 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Oxford, 65 miles (104 km) south-southeast of Birmingham, 71 miles (114 km) west of London and 60 miles (98 km) east of Cardiff. However, in 1967, the retailer WH Smith moved its book distribution centre to the town,[14] a move designed to take advantage of Swindon's central placing. It would seem tiny to us but settlements were very small in those days. In 2002 the New Swindon Company was formed with the brief to regenerate the town centre into a dynamic regional centre, reflecting the importance of Swindon in the region and to give the town the centre it deserves. Swindon is recorded in the Domesday Book as a manor in the hundred of Blagrove, Wiltshire. The borough became a unitary authority on 1 April 1997,[27] following a review by the Local Government Commission for England.
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