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Disused Park and Ride facility on Cricklade Road
©Antony Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>The street-naming theme in Penhill is Wiltshire towns and villages. Westwood is a village near the county border with Bath and North-East Somerset. The three-storey block at the left contains quite roomy maisonettes. Penhill has benefited from a mid-life update carried out by the Council as can be seen from the external appearance of the block.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.3km<br/>Staverton Way leads north from Westwood Road. It contains a mix of terraced houses and maisonettes within a three-storey block, seen at the right. Penhill is typical of mid 20th century municipal housing estates to be found in many parts of the UK.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the road into and out of the estate. In this view facing west Arkwright Road joins Cricklade Road, the main route from the north of Swindon to the strategic road network with connections to the M4 and M5.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>TSSI Systems Ltd are a new company specialising in biometrics and fingerprint recognition systems.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.4km<br/>Groundwell Industrial Estate, Swindon. Belliss & Morcom compound belt driving an alternator. Installed secondhand 1980, stopped 2002 and removed 2003. When photographed was in steam and on load (how times have changed). Rather whimsically it had a nameplate stating "Steaming Jenny".
©Chris Allen
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©Lambert
Dist:0.5km<br/>The bridge providing the viewpoint is at the northern limit of the 1950s estate but is rather newer. The houses providing the title are those to the right. Out of shot to the left is the southern edge of the northern development area.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>I love cats and appreciate the value of benches. The two together make a nice snap.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>This section of the avenue is climbing up the hill from 'the valley' to its junction with Downton Road. This is close to the western gridline of the square and the upper half of the image is in the next one west.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Using the zoom feature of my camera reveals little signs of these modern times. Satellite TV dishes are everywhere now beaming the dirty digger's output into homes the world over. The deployment of a CCTV camera on a modest terraced house tells us much about the fear of crime nowadays. Neither feature was in anyone's mind when the estate was developed over 50 years ago.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>These terraced houses are at the higher end of the avenue which drops down from here into a small valley to the north.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Braydon Court, a £5 million development in Penhill, finished in 2010, has replaced run down old houses and shops with this new convenience store, chip shop and 38 affordable homes.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.5km<br/>Braydon Court, a £5 million development in Penhill, was finished in 2010 and has replaced run down old houses and shops with 38 affordable homes, a new convenience store and a chip shop.
©Vieve Forward
Dist:0.5km<br/>Penhill Library and Learning Centre, Penhill Drive, Swindon.
©Vieve Forward

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