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Swindon

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Swindon, city (1991 pop. 127,348), Wiltshire, S central England. Swindon was a small village until 1841, when the Great Western RR opened its locomotive and car works there. Since then, with government support, it has become the largest and most highly industrialized town in Wiltshire. Other industries are engineering, clothing manufacture, and tobacco.
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Most of you have probably travelled down the Great Western Railway as far as Swindon.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be there in twenty minutes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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