Swindon

Swindon is an English city in the Wiltshire, located between London and Bristol. The city counts, since 2001,155,432 citizens. Unscrews of Swindon is Salubritas and Industria (Health and Industry).

History

Swindon was established during the invasion saxonne the United Kingdom. The name Swindon is perhaps taken Saxon words swine (pig) and dun (hill).

At the time of the Industrial revolution, the size of Swindon quickly increased thanks to the additions of the channel Wiltshire-Berkshire and parks it of Swindon which belongs to the Great Western Railway

Geography

The size of Swindon is about 40km and remains with ()

Cities nearest: Calne, Chippenham, Wootton Bassett, Cirencester, Cricklade, Highworth, Marlborough

Centers of interest: Avebury, Barbury Castle, Crofton Pumping Station, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge, Uffington White Horse

Climate

Swindon has a climate with the relatively fresh summers (18°C on average), of the soft winters (6°C on average) with frequent rains in any season and a time changing, but with weaker rains on the coasts and some points of temperature in the middle of the winter or the summer.

Company and Tourism

More the large companies in Swindon are Honda and BMW, the manufacturers of cars; Motorola, the cell phone maker; Nationwide Building Society, a service company financial and W H Smiths which has a distribution center in Swindon.

Swindon has a team of foot called Swindon Town which plays in the 2nd division of England, and Swindon Wildcats, a team of Hockey.

Swindon conceals a crossroads five ways (“Magic Roundabout”) not to miss: five small roundabouts imbricated at each exit of large gyratory in the center in opposite direction - very particular!

Others

There are almost 300,000 inhabitants in the area around Swindon.

Swindon is twinned with

Since the summer 2006,51% of the houses swindoniennes has access to the High banc, the rate highest of the the United Kingdom.

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