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Dist:0.1km<br/>Taken from the Eldene end looking towards Liden.
©David Martin
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is another view of the small estate of 'executive' homes on the south-eastern edge of Swindon also shown in this image http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/989161
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>Even at my advanced age I experienced a compulsion to load up a carrier bag with these almost irrestible nuts.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>Called 'sticky buds' for obvious reasons.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>Eldene Drive at its junction with the intriguingly named Bevisland.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>Beloved of small boys from 8 to 80. It seems to have been a good year for these splendid-looking but inedible nuts. There are several such trees along this part of Dorcan Way.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>The description in this image http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/989141 has a brief history of this area. Fairlawn was developed in the early 1970s by a private developer specializing in what were known at the time as 'executive' homes. They remain very popular.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is the northern section of Okebourne Park, a small area of individually designed residential properties that date back to the early 1970s. The history is this. In the late 1960s the then Swindon Borough Council needed land upon which to expand in order to meet the increasing demand for housing and commerce. Accordingly it took over the area known as Dorcan to the east of the Borough that was then mostly farmland in the administrative area of the now defunct Highworth Rural District Council (all RDCs ceased to exist in April 1974 following local government re-organization). The area was very roughly 600 hectares (1482 acres) in size. Whilst most of the area devoted to housing was developed either by the Council or private sector building firms this part was sold in plots to individuals who could then build houses to their own design (subject to planning permission).
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is a view to the west from the same viewpoint used for this image http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/989141
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<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:0.5km<br/>Viewed upstream; this watercourse runs into the lake in the next square west. The house visible in the background is in Okebourne Park, Swindon.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>This structure was put in place a few years ago in an attempt to stop travellers from taking over the land to the right of it for several weeks during the summer. Dorcan Way is at the left of the image
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>Eight storey blocks of flats owned by the Western Challenge Housing Association, Cromer is to the right and Sheringham in the distance to the left. A third block, Briarswood, is out of sight further to the left.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>This smallish body of water is well-used by local people for fishing and leisure. Home to lots of water-birds. The housing at left is also in Shaftesbury Avenue.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.6km<br/>Mute swans, mallard, Canada goose and a coot on Shaftesbury Avenue lake.
©Brian Robert Marshall

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