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SWINDON

Swindon (recorded in the Domesday Book as Svindune) is the largest town in Wiltshire, England. It owes its historic importance to the Great Western Railway, whose locomotive workshops brought prosperity to the town from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. The Great Western Railway Museum chronicles Swindon's development as a railway centre with railway memorabilia and actual engines. The adjacent Railway Village Museum (in a restored cottage) is an illuminating portrayal of the daily life of Victorian railway workers. In the older part of town, the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery includes a good selection of 20th-century paintings and ceramics.
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