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The houses in the background are on the northern edge of Eldene, Swindon.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Dorcan Stream is a tributary of the River Cole and is viewed here looking upstream from the footbridge to Dorcan Technology College from St Paul's Drive. This area of Swindon is now mainly residential but a glance at the 1940s OS mapping shows open fields with barely a farm building in sight.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>The large building at right of the image is a drug manufacturer called Patheon UK Ltd. It and the houses went up in the 1960s.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Viewed looking upstream from the Bullfinch Close road bridge with the houses in Gilling Way visible to the right.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>This pub in the centre of the urban village of Eldene was built on a sloping site in the early 1970s. Gossip at the time was that the architect had designed this pub long before a site was available for it. The topography of this location met the requirements for the pub and it was duly constructed.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>The IT people for the well-known department store chain work here. The road names here include Wheatstone, Edison and Murdock - pioneers in the world of physics.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/> The cycle track terminates in the distance at SU186843 over 500 metres from the viewing point.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.7km<br/>A bus stop on Kingfisher Drive at Covingham Park, as the trees begin to change colour in autumn. Many of the streets in this area have the names of birds. The Bristol RE bus is giving free trips around Swindon today.
©David Roberts
Dist:0.8km<br/>This is a huge warehouse the location of which takes advantage of Swindon's excellent links to the national road network. This is just one of the reasons why the town continues to expand.
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©Roger Cornfoot
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©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.9km<br/>Taken from the Eldene end looking towards Liden.
©David Martin
Dist:1.0km<br/>This plant used to be known as 'Raychem', an American company, as is Tyco. Tyco is a conglomerate which expanded rapidly in the 1990s. 'Tyco' was referred to by some as 'Take Your Company Over'. Its former Chief Executive was the notorious Dennis Kozlowski. Read about him and his $6000 shower curtains here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kozlowski
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©Nick Smith
Dist:1.0km<br/>This pub has had a number of names in its life. It started out as the Piccadilly. It was recently renamed apparently in recognition of the celebrity and television presenter Melinda Messenger, who lived and worked locally until her horizons expanded.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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