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Swindon in Wilts County England History and GeographySWINDON, a market town and parish in the hundred of KINGSBRIDGE, county of WILTS, 41 miles (N.) from Salisbury, and 81 (W.) from London, containing 1580 inhabitants. This place is mentioned in Domesday-book, but nothing further connected with its ancient history is on record. The town is pleasantly situated on the summit of a considerable eminence, commanding extensive and beautiful views of parts of Berkshire and Gloucestershire: the principal street is wide, and contains some good houses; and many of the inhabitants being persons in easy circumstances, the general aspect of the town is prepossessing: there is a good supply of water, which is of excellent quality. No branch of manufacture is carried on. The market is on Monday, for corn, &c., and on every second Monday for cattle; the latter is termed the great market. Fairs are held on the Monday before April 5th, the second Monday after May 12th, the second Monday in September, and the second Monday after September 11th, for cattle of all kinds, pedlary, &c. The petty sessions for the Swindon division of the hundred are held here. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £17, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to the Holy Rood, and situated at the south-eastern extremity of the town, is a small unadorned edifice, with a low tower; the interior is neatly fitted up. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. The free school, which was established in 1764, was founded by the gentry of the town and neighbourhood, and is supported partly by an endowment of about £40 per annum, arising from several bequests, and partly by voluntary contributions; there is a house for the master, and about forty boys are instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Some very extensive quarries are worked in the immediate vicinity, the stones raised from which are usually very large, and of an excellent quality. The Wilts and Berks canal passes about half a mile from the town, and a reservoir, covering about seventy acres, for its supply in dry seasons, has been constructed about a mile and a half from it, and is partly in this parish, adding much to the beauty of the scenery. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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