Retirement Properties Spotlight in Wroughton

Swindon was known as Suindone at Domesday and belonged to the Bishop of Bayeux and had two mills. It was still a village in the 17th century becoming a small town in the early 19th to rise as a major industrial centre in the 20th century. Swindon station was opened in 1835 and the town eventually became the home of British Railways' engineering works. The Great Western Railway museum is now housed in a converted Methodist chapel.

Wroughton is a large village just below the Marlborough Downs to the southwest of Swindon close to the Ridgeway - thought to be one of the oldest roads in Britain. It was once an RAF station closing at the end of the 20th century and now has a science museum. Two famous battles are thought to have been fought nearby by the House of Wessex in the 6th and 9th centuries heralding the future Kingdom of England.