Areas

• Abbey Meads
• Bridgemead
• Broome Manor

Home to the Broome Manor Golf Course and various businesses including the world headquarters of Burmah Castrol

Burmah Oil Company Ltd.

The Burmah Oil Company was a leading British oil business which was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.-History:The company was founded in Glasgow, Scotland in 1886 by David Sime Cargill to develop oil fields in the Indian subcontinent...

 as well as the UK headquarters of the Nationwide Building Society

Nationwide Building Society

Nationwide Building Society is a British building society, and is the largest in the world. It has its headquarters in Swindon, England, and maintains significant administration centres in Bournemouth and Northampton...

 and Intel.

• Cheney Manor

Built around 1952.

• Churchward
• Coleview
• Covingham

Home to 3,781 residents (2001 census). Covingham Park estate was built in 1964.

• Croft
• Dorcan

Taking its name from the nearby Dorkerne (now Dorcan) brook, Dorcan lies between Eldene, Liden, Covingham and the A419 bypass

A419 road

The A419 road is a primary route between Chiseldon near Swindon at junction 15 of the M4 with the A346 road, and Whitminster in Gloucestershire, England....

. Parts of these surrounding areas are also sometimes referred to as being in Dorcan (such as Eldene Shopping Centre which uses Dorcan in its address). It is the site of the Dorcan Industrial Estate which includes the UK Headquarters of Tyco Electronics

Tyco International

Tyco International Ltd. is a highly diversified global manufacturing company incorporated in Switzerland, with United States operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey...

 and offices of Npower (UK)

Npower (UK)

RWE Npower plc is a UK-based electricity and gas supply generation company, formerly known as Innogy plc. As Innogy plc it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index...

, Equiinet, MMG MagDev, Romec, House of Fraser

House of Fraser

House of Fraser is a British department store group with over 60 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891 it was known as Fraser & Sons. The company grew steadily during the early 20th century, but after the Second...

 (information systems), the Royal Mail

Royal Mail

Royal Mail is the government-owned postal service in the United Kingdom. Royal Mail Holdings plc owns Royal Mail Group Limited, which in turn operates the brands Royal Mail and Parcelforce Worldwide...

 sorting office

Sorting office

Sorting office or Processing and Distribution Center is any location where postal operators bring mail after collection for sorting into batches for delivery to the addressee, which may be a direct delivery or sent onwards to another regional or local sorting office, or to another postal...

 and buildings owned by Woolworths

Woolworths Group

Woolworths Group plc was a listed British company that owned the high-street retail chain, Woolworths, as well as other brands such as the entertainment distributor Entertainment UK and book and resource distributor Bertram Books...

. The pharmaceutical company Patheon

Patheon

Patheon Inc. is a contract pharmaceutical company, based in Ontario, Canada. The company undertakes development, manufacturing and packaging of pharmaceutical products, both prescription and over the counter , for a plethora of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, at sites...

 also has a large facility here.

Dorcan Technology College (Formerly Dorcan Comprehensive School) is also in this area, providing the locality with sports facilities, notable as it is the school attended by Melinda Messenger

Melinda Messenger

Melinda Jayne Messenger is an English ex-glamour model, Page 3 Girl and a former presenter on the magazine programme Live from Studio Five. She is currently co-broadcaster of the reality show Cowboy Builders.-Biography:...

 and actor Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence

Mark H. Lawrence, was the principal trombonist of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1974 to 2007.Lawrence was educated at the University of Michigan and the Curtis Institute of Music. His teachers have included Carlos Rivera, Allen H. Chase, Glenn Smith, M. Dee Stewart, and Glenn Dodson. ...

 (from the series Band of Brothers).

• Eldene

Built in the 1970s on the site of Snodshill Farm and including offices of Texaco

Texaco

Texaco is the name of an American oil retail brand. Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owns the Havoline motor oil brand....

• Even Swindon - now more commonly known as Rodbourne.
• Eastleaze
• Eastmead
• Ferndale
• Freshbrook
  Freshbrook
  Freshbrook is a suburb in the west of Swindon, UK, located close to junction 16 of the M4 motorway . Most houses in the area are found in cul-de-sacs, except for those on the few main roads Freshbrook has...
  
  

Part of West Swindon, the Estate was built during the period 1980-84.

Including offices of RWE

RWE

RWE AG , is a German electric power and natural gas public utility company based in Essen. Through its various subsidiaries, the energy company contributes electricity and gas to more than 20 million electricity customers and 10 million gas customers, principally in Europe...

, Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies

Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., originally Lucent Technologies, Inc. is a French-owned technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs...

 and Cable & Wireless

Cable & Wireless

Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC is a global telecommunications company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom. Cable & Wireless specialises in providing communication networks and services to large corporates, governments, carrier customers and resellers...

 at Windmill Hill

• Gorse Hill
• Grange Park
• Greenbridge

Mainly given over to large areas of business including the world heaquarters of WH Smith and the former site of the EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 UK CD pressing plant.

• Greenmeadow
• Hawksworth
• Haydon Wick
  Haydon Wick
  The Parish of Haydon Wick lies to the north of Swindon in Wiltshire, UK and has an estimated population in excess of 16,000, more than 13,950 of which are registered electors.-Government:...
  
  
• Kingsdown
• Lawn
• Liden

Includes 3 large tower blocks

• Marshgate
• Moredon
• Middleleaze
• Middle Stratton
• New Town (a.k.a. Swindon Town Centre)
• Nine Elms
• North Star

Including the Oasis leisure centre and Swindon College

Swindon College

Swindon College is a further education college in Swindon, England. Its campus is at North Star, just outside the town centre. The college has HNC/Ds and Foundation Degrees, through to BA courses and a postgraduate programme....

• Nythe
• Oakhurst (commenced building in 2006 and still ongoing)
• Oakley park
• Okus

• Old Town
• Park North

Estate built 1957-65

Also includes 3 10-storey tower blocks

• Park South

Estate built 1957-65

Including Cavendish Square, a shopping area which has now been rebuilt into a smaller shopping area with the removal of the residential flats above the shops, except George Hall Court. Nearby St. Clements Court has also been demolished and new homes built.

• Peatmoor
• Pembroke Park
• Penhill

Built during the period 1951-55

Includes 3 10-storey tower blocks

• Pinehurst

Built during the period 1910-20 as Swindon's first council housing estate.

• Prinnels
• Priory Vale
• Railway Village

Built in 1840-45 by the Great Western Railway

Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

 to house its employees.

• Ramleaze
• Raybrook Park
• Redhouse Rise
• Redhouse Village
• Rodbourne
• Rodbourne Cheney
• Rushey Platt
• Shaw
• Sparcells
• South Marston

Including the UK Headquarters of Zimmer

Zimmer Holdings

-History:Zimmer was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana, where it is part of the medical devices business cluster there.-Products:...

 and the large Honda

Honda

is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...

 car factory.

• Stratton Village
• Stratton St Margaret
  Stratton St Margaret
  Stratton St Margaret is a civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The parish covers north-eastern suburbs of Swindon including Stratton St Margaret itself along with Upper Stratton, Lower Stratton, Nythe and Kingsdown.-History:...
  
  
• Upper Stratton
• Lower Stratton
• St Andrew's Ridge
• Toothill

Part of West Swindon, council estate built during the period 1980-84

• Walcot East

Built from 1956

Formerly included the University of Bath in Swindon at Oakfield campus, which has been demolished. This is was situated very close to Park North.

• Walcot West (Old Walcot)

Built from the mid-1930s

• Westmead
• Westlea

The West Swindon shopping centre was Swindon's first out of town shopping centre, with a supermarket and other small shops. The supermarket was originally a Carrefour

Carrefour

Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

 but is now a large Asda

Asda

Asda Stores Ltd is a British supermarket chain which retails food, clothing, general merchandise, toys and financial services. It also has a mobile telephone network, , Asda Mobile...

.

Including offices of Intergraph

Intergraph

Intergraph Corporation is an American software development and services company. It provides enterprise engineering and geospatially powered software to businesses, governments, and organizations around the world. Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine and Security,...

 and the Delta Tennis Centre and home to the British and Foreign Bible Society

British and Foreign Bible Society

The British and Foreign Bible Society, often known in England and Wales as simply as Bible Society, is a non-denominational Christian Bible society with charity status whose purpose is to make the Bible available throughout the world....

.

Areas Under Construction

• Priory Vale
  Priory Vale
  Priory Vale is a community within the Swindon ‘Northern Development Area’. It is made up of the villages Redhouse, Oakhurst and Haydon End. Although not strictly part of Priory Vale, the nearby village of Taw Hill completes this latest instalment in Swindon's northern expansion which began with...
  
   - Official Website (a.k.a. North Swindon Development)
• Wichelstowe - Official Website (a.k.a. Southern Development Area)

Places of interest

• Coate Water
  Coate Water Country Park
  Coate Water is a country park situated to the southeast of central Swindon, near Junction 15 of the M4. It takes its name from the main feature, a reservoir originally built to provide water for the Wilts and Berks Canal....
  
   
• County Ground
  County Ground, Swindon
  The County Ground is a stadium located near the town centre of Swindon, England. It is home to Swindon Town Football Club and has been for over a century.The current capacity is 15,728, all-seated...
  
   - Swindon Town F.C.
  Swindon Town F.C.
  Swindon Town Football Club are a team based in Swindon, Wiltshire. Currently in League Two, Swindon have been managed by Paolo Di Canio since 23 May 2011...
  
  's stadium.
• Lydiard Park
  Lydiard Country Park
  Lydiard Park is a country park at Lydiard Tregoze, west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, UK near Junction 16 of the M4 .The park contains Lydiard House, the former residence of the St John family, the Viscounts Bolingbroke...
  
   
• Lydiard House
  Lydiard House
  Lydiard House is a manor located in Lydiard Park at Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon, Wiltshire. The house and surrounding land was originally owned by the Viscount Bolingbroke who owned the house for several centuries until the cost of caring for the house proved too high, and they were forced to sell...
  
   
• The Magic Roundabout
  Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
  The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England was constructed in 1972 and consists of five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle. It is located near the County Ground, home of Swindon Town F.C. Its name comes from the popular children's television series The Magic Roundabout...
  
   - A large roundabout containing 5 mini-roundabouts.
• Queens Park
  Queens Park, Swindon
  Queens Park is a public park, located near the Regent Circus area of Swindon town centre.It is about in size, with a lake of around , and contains a diverse range of ornamental trees and shrubs....
  
  
• Steam Railway Museum
  Swindon Steam Railway Museum
  STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is located at the site of the old railway works in Swindon, England – Wiltshire's 'railway town'...