Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described New Swindon like this:

New Swindon, local government dist., Rodborne Cheney, Stratton St Margaret, and Swindon pars., Wilts, forming the chief part of the town of Swindon, 1310 ac., pop. 17,768; P.O., T.O. See SWINDON.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to New Swindon by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Swindon 12 2
Even Swindon 0 2
Upper Stratton 0 2
Stratton St Margaret 0 2
Rodbourne Cheney 0 3
Haydon 0 2
Wroughton 0 2
South Marston 0 2
Stanton Fitzwarren 0 2
Kingsbridge 0 2
Blunsdon St Andrew 0 3
Broad Blunsdon 0 2
Lydiard Tregoze 1 2
Badbury 0 2
Chiseldon 0 3
Lydiard Millicent 0 3
Wanborough 0 2
Liddington 0 2
Bourton 0 2
Draycot Foliat 0 2