Swindon
Swindon is a large town in South West England, middle between Bristol, 35 miles to the west and Reading, 35 miles to the east. London is 71 miles to the east. At the 2011 it had a population of 185,609.
Swindon become an expanded town under the town development in 1952 and has a major increase in its population. Between 1841 and 1842 Swindon Works was built for the repair and maintenance of trains on the Great Western Railway. The gwr built a small railway village to house some of its workers. The Steam Railway Museum and English Inheritance including the English Heritage Archive, now occupy part of the old works. In the village were the gwr Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon Road, and the 1892 health Centre in Milton Road which housed clinics, a pharmacy, laundries, baths, Turkish baths and swimming pools was almost opposite.